Occupational Therapy Team Lead- Care of the Elderly Kingston upon Thames, England
Job description
The post holder provides specialist occupational therapy service to clients within the Acute Medical, Elderly Care Unit, Surgery and Orthopaedics who meet the service criteria. They will be leading the Acute speciality medicine OT service and team. The post holder is responsible for managing a caseload of clients with complex needs, using evidence-based and client-centred practice in the assessment and the planning, implementation and evaluation of interventions. The post holder will be working closely with other members of the multi-disciplinary team, taking on an active role in identifying, coordinating and organising the appropriate care and rehabilitation service and home/hospital set-up needed to ensure the safe and timely discharge of patient from the acute hospital.
JOB SUMMARY
The post holder provides specialist occupational therapy service to clients within the Acute Medical, Elderly Care Unit, Surgery and Orthopaedics who meet the service criteria. They will be leading the Acute speciality medicine OT service and team. The post holder is responsible for managing a caseload of clients with complex needs, using evidence-based
and client-centred practice in the assessment and the planning, implementation and evaluation of interventions. The post holder will be working closely with other members of the multi-disciplinary team, taking on an active role in identifying, coordinating and organising the appropriate care and rehabilitation service and home/hospital set-up needed to ensure the safe and timely discharge of patient from the acute hospital.
Trust Culture and Values
The Trust has defined its culture as one that is patient centred which puts safety first and where all staff take responsibility, are valued and value each other. To support this our four values are that we are all: -
Caring– we design and deliver care around each individual patient’s needs and wants.
Safe– we make the safety of patients and staff our prime concern (safety comes first).
Responsible– all staff take responsibility for the hospital, its services and reputation.
Value each other– we all value each other’s contribution.
Inspiring– we always strive to empower each other to develop and deliver improvements to benefit our patients.
Our training, policies, procedures, and practices are all intended to support behaviours in line with our values and all staff are expected to uphold these by 'Living Our Values Everyday'
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