Senior Occupational Therapist (band 6)

This is an exciting opportunity to work in the beautiful Yorkshire Dales. Working within our community team benefits from flexible and agile working opportunities, supportive annual development, health and well-being support whilst using your clinical decision making to develop personalised care.
An innovative role has arisen for a senior community occupational therapist with a specialist interest in mental health to join our established integrated intermediate care team. The team provide an urgent community response service to avoid unnecessary hospital admissions and a virtual ward to support patients to remain at home wherever possible and facilitate safe hospital discharge.
We work closely with health and social care partners providing several pathways including a Falls response pathway, in addition to COPD, Bronchiectasis, NOF and IV pathways to enable patients to safely stay at home with support by providing clinical monitoring, rehabilitation and equipment provision, we can utilise tech enabled virtual ward beds for remote monitoring.
Previous applicants need not re-apply, To provide personalised care to adults in their own home within Airedale, Wharfedale and Craven areas. This also includes in-reaching therapy provision to patients in Castleberg Hospital.
To perform advanced occupational therapy assessments of patients with a diverse range of presentations and complicated physical and psychological conditions, develop and deliver individualised/personalised treatment programmes in conjunction with the multidisciplinary team (MDT).
To provide a key role in working in partnership with medical colleagues, MDT, patients and carers to set achievable goals and to help to facilitate discharge planning to enable safe discharge from our service.
To work to support the team in its delivery of interventions, to skill share with other professionals to support the Urgent Community Response and Virtual Ward models of care.
In pursuing these duties, the post holder will ensure compliance with the NHS Constitution and be familiar with the NHS England Guidance 'Understanding the new NHS' (details of which can be found in the links section of NHS Jobs).

Working for our organisation
We are delighted to offer a wide range of benefits to employees including:
+ Cycle to Work
+ Travel Scheme
+ Childcare Vouchers with Salary Sacrifice
+ Onsite Nursery
+ Buying and Selling Annual Leave
+ Car Leasing
+ Employee Assistance Programme
+ Employee Health and Wellbeing
+ Extensive Reward Scheme
+ Counselling Service
+ Financial packages including Vivup and Wagestream
+ Staff Networks, Enable, Rainbow, Gender, Race Equality Ecoaware & Admin Network.
Our values:
We understand that it's down to the hard work, effort and dedication of our staff that makes a difference for our patients. Our people really do make our Airedale experience - we take pride in fostering a friendly, effective and caring work environment. Our values are part of our DNA, which are:
+ Committed to Quality of Care
+ Compassion
+ Working together for patients
+ Improving Lives
+ Everyone Counts
+ Respect and Dignity
Got questions before you apply, please contact the recruiting manager to find out more.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Management of Care:
To provide care and interventions, risk and safety management and safeguarding of all patients on the Collaborative Care team caseload and in reaching to Castleberg Hospital.
To be responsible for efficient caseload management and work without direct supervision practice, to work within the HCPC Standard and OT Code of Professional Conduct
To provide clinical education and training to occupational therapy students to graduate level and other members of the team to allow them to gain occupational therapy competencies. To engage in regular supervision and appraisal within the team, to discuss, reflect and find solutions to challenges experienced in the role.
To be an active member of the senior team within the Collaborative Care Teams, participating in service development, to be shift co-ordinator in the team managing referrals, day to day management of the team and identified managerial responsibilities.
Clinical:
To be professionally and legally accountable for all aspects of own work.
To undertake a comprehensive assessment of patients with frailty, complicated physical and mental health presentation, and multiple pathologies. To use advanced clinical reasoning skills to implement appropriate treatment agreed in conjunction with senior clinicians and GP's.
To deliver a high standard of quality service which enables patients to be supported throughout their care pathway, promoting personalised care and independence whilst protecting choice, dignity, privacy and safety.
Assess the understanding of patients regarding treatment proposals using appropriate assessment tools, gain valid informed consent and have the capacity to work within a legal framework with patients who lack the capacity to consent to treatment.
Use appropriate verbal and non-verbal tools to communicate effectively with patients, relatives and carers to progress treatment programmes. To communicate effectively with health and social care professionals and work in partnership with other services.
To work in support of other Allied Healthcare Professionals and services in the assessment, planning and evaluation of care and treatment. To take responsibility for staff managing patients and be responsible for providing specialist occupational therapy and identifying and completing mental health assessments.
To manage risk safely and to work in conjunction with other agencies to promote safe care.
Carry out appropriate assessments and treatments of a variety of physical conditions which require moderate physical effort.
Work within Airedale NHS Foundation Trust clinical guidelines and OT guidelines and to have a good working knowledge of national and local standards, monitoring own and others quality of practice as appropriate.
To be responsible for maintaining accurate and comprehensive patient treatment records and care plans in line with professional standards.
To represent occupational therapy and/or individual patients at multidisciplinary/agency meetings to ensure the delivery of a co-ordinated service and the integration of occupational therapy treatment, including discussion of patient care, progress and discharge planning.
To be responsible for the safe and competent use of all patient appliances and aids by patients and ensure that staff attain competency prior to use.
To deal sensitively with patients, relatives and carers who have high levels of anxiety and aggression caused by pain, dementia or limited mobility.
Professional:
To be responsible for maintaining own competency to practice through CPD activities and maintain a portfolio which reflects personal development.
Participate in the staff appraisal scheme as an appraisee and be responsible for complying with agreed personal development programmes to promote development opportunities for self and others. Use SMART goals to achieve knowledge and competencies in line with ANHSFT personal development reviews.
Undertake the measurement and evaluation of work and current practices through the use of evidence-based projects, audit and outcome measures, either individually or with other team members.
To support training programmes by attendance at and participation in tutorials, individual training sessions, external courses and peer review.
To manage and undertake audits to specific areas of clinical practice and service delivery using a range of methodologies as part of MDT audit and departmental initiatives.
Be actively involved in professional clinical groups, such as clinical interest groups.
Organisational
To be responsible for own time management and that of others when necessary to meet service and patient priorities. To be flexible and adaptable to changing situations as they arise.
Ensure that your own practice and that of supervised staff meet the required professional standards of occupational therapy practice.
Be responsible for safe and competent use of hoists, slings, wheelchairs, walking aids used in occupational therapy treatment by patients, Band 4 AP, student occupational therapists and support workers, through teaching, training and supervision of practice.
To always comply with Airedale NHS Foundation Trust Manual Handling Policy and local handling guidance.
To be aware of the risks involved in lone working, manual handling issues, security, environmental issues, housing conditions and be able to respond appropriately.
Professional Registration/Codes of Conduct
Be aware of and comply with the relevant codes of conduct and practice set up by your professional regulatory body and maintain up to date professional registration appropriate to the post. Any breach of these codes may lead to action by the Trust independent of any taken by the regulatory or professional body.
We are happy to discuss flexible working opportunities.
NOTE: This vacancy may close before the advertised closing date if sufficient suitable applications are received.
If you are offered a position which requires you to undertake a Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) check, Airedale NHS Foundation Trust will administer the DBS check on your behalf and will recover the cost (Enhanced £41.90, Standard £21.90 or Basic £21.90) from your first full months salary. This is a condition of your employment.
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You are encouraged to participate in the DBS Update Service and pay the £13 cost per year.
We encourage applicants to receive the Covid-19 vaccination but this will not be a condition of deployment with the organisation. We will be asking applicants to share their vaccination status as part of our normal pre employment screening but this will not affect their employment status with the Trust.

At Airedale, we are committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion. We actively encourage applications irrespective of people's age, lived experience of living with a disability or long-term conditions, gender, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.
Increasing our diversity and supporting our organisation to be more inclusive is a key priority here at Airedale and our teams are at the centre of how we work towards this.
We appreciate all people may have diverse and individual needs and we pride ourselves on supporting all people to thrive and flourish at work. We have frameworks in place that support reasonable adjustments and flexible working for colleagues throughout their working lives which starts at recruitment.
These are exciting times for Airedale. We have the once-in-a-career opportunity to be involved in the planning and building of a completely new hospital here on our Steeton site by 2030. By joining us now you'll be a key part of our journey over the next few years, with the chance to input into a state-of-the-art, modern healthcare facility that will deliver care to our communities for decades to come. We are also on the journey to a new electronic patient record, part of our wider ambition for our digital future - a future that builds on our significant telemedicine and digital care success. Ultimately, what makes Airedale special is our people. Not just our staff, but our volunteers, patients, visitors, and wider population who make up the Airedale family. This is a Trust that sits at the heart of our community, and our communities are very proud of their Trust.