Senior Occupational Therapist

Job Title:  Senior Occupational Therapist– Band 6  (2 roles)
Area:  Cambridgeshire NHS
Salary:  £negotiable  
Job Type:  Locum
Contract length:  Ongoing                     
Job details:  Intermediate Care Team. JD available on request:

• To work across Pathway 1 (care at home) and Pathway 2 (Health Interim beds and Inpatient Rehabilitation units) for the Intermediate Care service.
• To work as an autonomous practitioner within the integrated multi-professional team.
• To be responsible for patients on the shared caseloads of community and/or inpatient settings.
• To undertake assessment of patients with complex and multiple pathologies using specialist clinical reasoning skills.
• To identify patient needs, agree goals and provide appropriate therapy interventions, provide equipment and rehabilitation programmes.
• To take a holistic approach to all therapeutic interventions, working across professional boundaries at times.
• To keep the patient at the centre of care, ensuring patient and carer participation in decision making.
• To provide support and education to peers, junior staff, non-registered staff, and students.
• To supervise and support education of junior staff and students, overseeing patient intervention and ensure that Band 5 Therapists, Therapy Assistant Practitioners, and Integrated Care Workers deliver high quality patient care.
• To be accountable for a delegated task and activities undertaken by Band 5 Therapists, Therapy Assistant Practitioners, and Integrated Support Workers.
• To prioritise all patients’ according to clinical need and to allocate or signpost tasks appropriately.
• To always provide a high standard of care.
• To provide resilience and cover to other locality teams as required due to operational demands and system pressures.

Working hours: Monday to Friday, 08.30 – 16.30 (flex on start and finish times)
Code:  U.C681. 025009.B13101