Occupational Therapist Job Cardiff area,Wales UK,Healthcare

Job summary

At St Peters Hospital we pride ourselves on our approach to people with the most complex needs. The service offers a structured assessment process for people with complex neurological conditions, often complicated by behaviours that challenge, to support long term care and treatment planning. The service focuses on interdisciplinary formulation of needs and the development of interventions aimed at improving quality of life and using least restrictive approaches with people who may have struggled in community or secondary care placements.

Main

duties of the job

St Peters Hospital is a 51-bedded hospital based in Newport, providing services commissioned by NHS Wales and England. It caters for people with organic conditions, including the dementias, Hunting tons disease, alcohol-related brain damage, and acquired brain injury. The people we support and treat often present with behavioural and psychological symptoms, including behaviours that challenge and may have had a history of involvement with the criminal justice system and / or forensic mental health system.

About us

Iris Care Group places a strong emphasis and value on our therapies services and will invest in your ongoing development. You will be part of a large clinical services team across our group, with access to support from multidisciplinary colleagues across all the allied health professions. Research and networking interests are supported and encouraged. We have good links with local clinical training courses and academic centres: the postholder will be encouraged to supervise trainee occupational therapists on placement via our existing links with the Health Education and Improvement Wales commissioned OT training course at Cardiff University.

Job

responsibilities Clinical

To provide clinical related occupational therapy intervention guided by the patients specific needs, wishes and aspirations.
To complete bottom up and top-down assessments to assess for patients functional ability including but not limited to washing & dressing, transfers, showering/bathing, feeding, kitchen, vehicle, community mobility etc)
To implement interventions either in groups or to individuals in close liaison with other disciplines involved in the patients care, having emphasis on multi-disciplinary teamwork.
To support with maintaining patients quality of life, social interactions with others, engagement through occupations both on site and in the community.
To demonstrate best practice interventions within areas of mental health (schizophrenia, psychosis, bipolar, depression, anxiety etc) dementia, organic and acquired brain injury and neurorehabilitation.
To be involved when appropriate in the assessment of aids/ adaptations to enable the patient to improve/ maintain own level of functional daily living skills.
To practice in accordance with legislation according to the clinical area.
To assess clinical risk and apply in practice
To be competent in supporting patients on community visits and risk assessing the environment appropriately.
To evaluate and modify interventions using appropriate outcome measures.
To be involved in the purchase order system, identifying providing appropriate justification for requested purchasing
To be able to complete sensory profiling and sensory integration for patients to meet their sensory needs.
To be able to provide necessary basic and specialist equipment adaptions to support physical needs.
To be specialists in manual handling techniques to support patients quality of life, independence and skills maintenance.

Person Specification Qualifications Essential

Diploma or Degree in Occupational Therapy
Registered to practice by HCPC.
Relevant post registration training
Students Supervisors Course
Significant post registration experience of working with specified patient group i.e. older person neurological, dementia, Hunting tons, mental health (mood, persona list and psychotic disorders)

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name: Iris Care Group

Address: St Peters Hospital, St Peters Hospital, Newport, Newport,…