Bank B6 Occupational Therapist - Herts

To Provide urgent high-quality, short-term programs of care for vulnerable adults in their own home with acute health needs, and to facilitate timely discharge from urgent and acute care settings. Work within professional standards and clinical guidelines, promote best practice and to undertake all aspects of clinical duties as an autonomous practitioner including assessing and treating own caseload of patients/clients and maintaining professional documentation. To work as part of a multidisciplinary team to facilitate timely assessment and co-ordinated discharge planning, liaising with appropriate team members when patient's are acutely unwell. To hold responsibility for own caseload, working with and without direct supervision. Provide support, teaching and clinical supervision for other team members, student Occupational Therapists. To work flexibly, being willing to work on other Unplanned Care pathways when required.,

• To prescribe appropriate equipment to clients in order to maximise their independence and safety.
• Travel to client's homes taking necessary assessment and treatment equipment as required.
• To work as a lone practitioner, within the guidelines of the Lone Working Policy, when performing home visits.
• To identify clients who need support from outside agencies, using clinical reasoning and analysis skills. To liaise with, and to refer clients to these services which include other Healthcare Services, Social Services and Voluntary agencies as appropriate.
• To participate in 7 day working.
  
  We providecommunity health services to more than two million people across eleven London boroughs and Hertfordshire.
Every day, our professionals provide high-quality healthcare in people's homes and local clinics, helping them to:
• stay well
• manage their own health with the right support
• avoid unnecessary trips to, or long stays in, hospital.
We support our patients at every stage of their lives, providing health visiting for new-born babies through to community nursing, stroke rehabilitation and palliative care for people towards the end of their lives. Our vision:deliver great care closer to home. Our mission: working together to give children a better start and adults greater independence