occupational therapist Newmarket, England
Job description
Job summary: To provide specialist assessment, intervention and management of patients, ensuring practice is evidence based at all times To autonomously manage a complex clinical case load and support others as required across the West Suffolk Community Assessment Bed (CAB) sites To support the team lead with service delivery and the day to day management of the CAB service across the sites To work under the direction of the team lead with audits, service developments and research to ensure the service is in line with current best practice To support the team with regular training and education to assist staff, students, carers and others as required To foster a positive team ethos, promoting, supporting, and developing the service and staff to enable a safe and healthy working environment To ensure staff are supported through regular supervision and appraisals to maximise development opportunities To maintain an active professional development portfolio and to continue with on-going post-graduate learning KEY WORKING RELATIONSHIPS: Patients and carers Multidisciplinary team members Colleagues and other professionals within acute, primary and tertiary healthcare Voluntary groups and organisations KEY TASKS: Clinical and professional To be professionally accountable for all aspects of your own work including the management of patients in your care, always complying with HCPC standards of conduct, the RCOT Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct and the Professional Standards for Occupational Therapy Practice. To ensure a high standard of clinical care for the patients under your management and support staff to do likewise. To employ professional judgement to establish a level of consent and to work within the Trust and departmental policy to treat patients lacking the capacity to provide consent.
