Occupational Therapist - Birmingham Birmingham, England
Job description
To work within a specialist clinical area as an autonomous professional with support and supervision (which may be remote if appropriate) of a more senior OT for more complex cases. To accept professional accountability and responsibility. To manage and prioritise a caseload of service users with complex mental/physical health needs and/or challenging behaviour, with supervision from a more senior OT and regular support for more challenging service users and situations. To complete the OT process and to use evidence based/service user centred principles and clinical reasoning to assess, formulate a treatment plan, implement and evaluate intervention, with supervision for more complex cases.
To address occupational performance and skill deficits enabling the service user in areas of self-maintenance, productivity, education and leisure. With the support and supervision from a more senior OT, to develop programmes of care, ensure adequate and detailed handover of programmes to rehabilitation support workers or therapy assistants, monitor through data gathering, evaluate and modify treatment in order to measure progress and ensure effectiveness of intervention according to the neurobehavioural model. With the support and supervision from a more senior OT, to use interpersonal skills and empathy to engage those service users and families who may be resistant to the rehabilitation process or may be distressed. To work with service users, family/carers and outside agencies in a sensitive and flexible way considering the most appropriate environment for assessment and intervention and responding to changing needs, circumstances and cultural issues.
To maintain the highest levels of integrity through all communications.
