Experienced Occupational Therapist Reablement CA11 1331 Grade K

Job Category :Social & Healthcare Qualified

Location :Monkton Park Council Offices, Wiltshire Council

Hours Per Week : 37.00

Start Date : Immediate Star

Start Time :09:00

End Time :  17:00

Salary: £27.92
The Reablement team positively impacts individuals’ lives following illness, injury, loss of confidence or hospital admission. The service is led by Occupational Therapists, alongside Occupational Therapy Assistants and Support Workers. 

Our OTs work proactively with customers in their own homes to achieve greater independence, promote their well-being and minimise long-term care needs. 

In this placement, you will conduct strengths-based assessments, and work with customers and their families to design and implement creative reablement plans to enable them to achieve their goals.

We’re looking for a qualified OT with at least two years of post-qualification experience. Holding a valid full UK driver’s license is required, as they’ll be conducting visits to clients in their own homes or other settings, such as hospitals.




No full management of a team but will be required to monitor the quality and quantity of the work of others.  

Will provide advice, guidance and support to colleagues to ensure whole team achievements are met.

Degree or equivalent experience/skills.

ITQ 2 or equivalent skill and ability demonstrating significant experience in IT systems.

Professional qualification in area of specialism.

Licence / certificate / qualification required for the role.

Some relevant professional experience post qualification in a similar work environment.

Expert knowledge of relevant policy, systems, work practices, professional guidelines, legislation in the area of specialism.

Excellent ICT skills including use of Microsoft applications and specialist systems.

Experience of multi-disciplinary and partnership working and awareness of the issues involved. 

Planning and workload management skills.

Proven assessment and investigation skills appropriate to the scope of the role. Ability to carry out complex client assessments. 

Experience of using professional knowledge to work within referral systems according to established criteria.

Proven ability to work with challenging client groups and situations.

Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.

Proven ability to deliver training.

Accurate record keeping and report writing.

Good presentational skills.

Knowledge of financial assessment processes. 

Apply professional knowledge and experience to interpret and recommend policy, resolve complex issues, proactively anticipate problems and deliver solutions which enhance the quality and efficiency of services.

Responsible for meeting performance standards within a policy framework and regulatory guidelines. Considerable scope to exercise initiative in taking action – within the boundary of well-defined policies.

Contribute to long term strategies.

Responsible for professional advice, assessments or referrals, ensuring interventions are timely and cost effective.

Manage a complex and varied caseload within a framework of policy and procedures –subject to managerial control and review of results.

Research information to support and develop services for the client group.

Prepare standard reports and contribute to reports for court/tribunals as required, representing the service at court/tribunal attendance as required.

Assess and oversee adaptation work including advice and demonstration of specialist equipment to clients.

Provide advice and guidance on complex issues which could be contentious and challenging in nature.

Ability to build relationships and engage successfully with colleagues /partners /customers / contractors and suppliers 

Liaise with professional colleagues, providers and external agencies to co-ordinate actions and interventions where required.

Negotiation showing tact and diplomacy to deal with conflicting requirements or opinions and the ability to make decisions on the most appropriate action to reach an acceptable conclusion. 

Contacts will include: Senior managers, leadership team, councillors, stakeholder, external bodies,  and partners.

Support parents or carers regarding development issues including complex problems.

Using general guidelines and utilising a wide range of relevant information, make decisions which impact on the whole organisation. Advice is not normally available.  

Assess the options and take appropriate action, where only general guidelines exist.

Decisions to ensure outcomes are achieved which serve the best needs of the customer and as a consequence can result in improved services.

The consequences of the decisions will have an impact across the organisation.

Conduct statutory and / or complex / specialist assessments of clients’ circumstances and issues to determine intervention / referral to the appropriate service.

Provide financial advice to support service provision and/or individual clients.

Little or no responsibility for physical or financial resources.

Work subject to interruptions and at times may be competing demands of work priorities.

Work may require some physical effort.

Work potentially involving some risks due to nature of activities being provided and / or environment or public / customers.  

The job holder will be demonstrating all of the desirable behaviours at this level, and be working towards the aspirational behaviours in the framework. Please refer to Behaviours Framework for a full list of the desirable and aspirational behaviours required.

To be demonstrating level 2 “advanced”  across the skill area of communication & customer service. 

• All employees are required to carry out all duties and responsibilities with reasonable care for the health and safety of self and others and report any potential hazards or unsafe practices to their line manager.
  
  
  
  To uphold standards of practice for Occupational Therapists as determined by the regulatory body, the Health and Care Professions Council and the Professional Standards and Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct of the Royal College of Occupational Therapists.  
• To undertake occupational therapy assessments with customers.  To plan for the provision of support and/ or services with customers in order to assist them meet their outcomes and to live as independently as possible fulfilling their individual potential. 
• To support carers to continue in their role.
• To provide professional supervision and support to Occupational Therapists and Customer Coordinators, working within the same locality/ environment.
• To deliver this service in accordance with the statutory responsibilities as set out within social care and housing legislation
•  To ensure that the primary responsibility of safeguarding adults is delivered in accordance with the law and local policy and guidance.

Specific duties and responsibilities:

• Manage a busy caseload including complex and challenging cases; provide support and guidance for the management of complex and challenging cases. Be able to reprioritise work according to individual customer and service needs. 

Undertake strengths based occupational therapy assessments working with customers with complex occupational needs and contentious situations (including assessment of mental capacity where appropriate); using your professional judgement to adapt your approach to the individual needs of the customer



Person Specification

Specific qualifications, knowledge, and skills required for this role:

Essential

•           Professional Qualification in Occupational Therapy (Diploma or degree)

•           Registered with the HCPC as an Occupational Therapist

•           Evidenced experience of professional and personal development following achievement of professional qualification, likely to be a minimum of 2 years post-qualification

•           Experience of working with adults

•           Significant knowledge and understanding of Health, Housing and Social Care legislation and wider policy context. 

•           Significant up-to-date knowledge of relevant legislation and guidance in relation to working with, and the safeguarding of adults.

•           Significant knowledge and experience of delivering adaptations through the Disabled Facilities Grant process.

•           Significant knowledge of reablement to support and promote independence.

•           Significant and up-to-date knowledge and experience of undertaking moving and handling assessments and writing moving and handling plans.

•           Experience of contributing to the supervision of staff and taking part in professional supervision

•           Well-developed interpersonal skills and ability to effectively communicate with people in a variety of ways and levels.

•           Ability to professionally challenge

•           Literate, numerate and good computer skills

•           Ability to prioritise work and support others to do this.

•           A self-starter, well organised person who is passionate about delivery of high quality customer-centric services.

•           Must be able to write clear, accurate and evidence-informed documentation

•           Fully fluent in spoken and written English

Desirable

•           Experience of working in a social care setting

•           Experience of working in a reablement or intermediate care team

•           Experience of working as a Safeguarding investigating officer.

•           Experience of supervising occupational therapy students on practice placements. .

•           Experience of offering formal supervision and appraisal to staff.

•           Experience in offering training and support with moving and handling.

 

Supporting information

Driving classification

Occasional driver

A valid UK driving licence is not required.  Occasionally may need to travel to different locations in order to undertake the duties of the role.

Regular Driver

Must hold a valid UK driving licence (with no more than 6 penalty points) and have access to either their own car or a pool car in order to undertake the duties of the role, unless other forms of transport are available and viable to perform the role. 

Required Driver

Must hold a valid UK driving licence (with no more than 3 penalty points) and will drive a vehicle supplied by the Council in order to undertake the duties of the role.

Employees should refer to the Corporate Driving at Work policy for further information.