Job Overview

This an exciting time to join Jerseys Occupational Therapy team in Health and Care Jersey

You will provide a specialist Occupational Therapy support, offering expert advice, support and clinical leadership to colleagues. The role will focus on promoting a holistic, recovery‑focused approach through functional assessment, occupational formulation and evidence‑based intervention, ensuring that the unique contribution of Occupational Therapy is fully embedded within crisis and assessment pathways. 

Job Purpose

• To manage defined caseload

• To provide Occupational Therapy that is evidence based and follows client-centred principles.

• This will include assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating the outcome of interventions, documenting all stages of the process.

• Interventions may be carried out in hospital, community settings or during home visits.

• To develop skills and knowledge through participation in the Preceptorship Programme and other post-graduate opportunities. 

• To participate effectively as a full member of the multidisciplinary team.

• To contribute to the education of occupational therapy students

Job Specific Outcomes 1 of 2

• To work as a member of the multidisciplinary team establishing effective relationships with colleagues to benefit the treatment of clients in each setting. This will include contributing to decision making about client care programmes. 

• To provide and receive information (some of which may be complex or sensitive) and may require tact or negotiation and to be able to manage barriers to understanding.

• To communicate clearly the results of assessment, intervention and evaluation to referrers and others involved with clients.

• To liaise regularly with other Occupational Therapists and clinical teams to develop/provide integrated services.

• To provide support, advice and education to relatives and carers of clients.

• To attend clinical and business meetings and other client and team related meetings regularly in order to establish and maintain effective communication networks.

Job Specific Outcomes 2 of 2

• To review and reflect on own practice and performance through effective use of professional and operational supervision and the Personal Development Review process.

• To utilise the opportunity provided for peer supervision with other Band 5 Occupational Therapists.

• To provide supervision to non-registered support staff as delegated by the Senior Occupational Therapists.

• To apply acquired skills and knowledge of professional practice and to continue to develop these in accordance with the requirements of the Preceptorship Programme and other post-graduate development plans.

• To maintain a professional portfolio for continuing professional development in accordance with Health Professions Council Standards of Practice that records learning outcomes through work activities and participation in internal and external development opportunities.

Qualifications

Professional Qualification - Degree or Equivalent in occupational therapy

Professional registration to HCPC

PCOT Membership

Knowledge

• Understand the legal responsibilities of the profession
• Awareness of assessing/ managing/preventing risk in the working environment 

• Knowledge of the principles of clinical governance and its application 
• Familiarity with practice standards andCode of Conduct of the Royal College of Occupational Therapists & HCPC standards

• Specialist knowledge of OT assessment and intervention, relevant to client group 

• Comprehension and ability to work within organisational policies and to meet the diverse needs of patients 

Technical Work Based Skills

• Ability to keep accurate and legible patient records in English

• IT Literate

• Ability to carry out moderate to intense physical effort throughout the working day and carry out concurrent activities

• Ability to work in a stressful working environment with emotional or aggressive patients/or carers and manage stressful, upsetting or emotional situations in and empathetic manner supporting other members of the Team, clients and their families.

General skills / attributes

• An ability to organise and problem solve

• Ability to present information, written, and oral, in a clear and logical manner

• Ability to function effectively across a variety of environments (e.g. ward, department, patient’s homes etc) involving changing and demanding conditions.

Experience

• Completed a broad range of clinical placements

• Experience of working within a multidisciplinary team 

• Evidence of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) portfolio 

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