ICU Occupational Therapist

Clinical: • Ensure that patients, relatives and those whom you encounter are aware of the role of the Occupational Therapist and components of the Occupational Therapy treatment programme. • Obtain informed consent from the patient, and work within the current legal framework for patients who lack capacity to consent, prior to commencing any treatment. • Select from a range of standardised and non-standardised assessments to assess and aid diagnosis, addressing disease management, sensory, cognitive, perceptual, behavioural, motor, splinting, psychosocial needs and functional abilities. This includes but is not limited to; social and environmental interviews, cognitive & perceptual tests, personal care assessments, kitchen assessments, and feeding assessments. • Make reliable interpretations of the assessment results, to inform other professionals in the diagnosis and management of the patients needs and guide the Occupational Therapy treatment plan and provide recommendations for rehabilitation and discharge planning. • Carry out home assessments and/or follow-up visits, where appropriate, to facilitate discharge. • Assess for and provide aids and adaptive equipment to increase, enable or compensate for independent function, teaching compensatory techniques as required. These include but are not limited to feeding, dressing, domestic activity and employment. Responsible for providing information and instruction for the safe use of the items provided. • Raising or authorise equipment requisition, as per policy. • Assess for wheelchairs, specialist seating and positioning needs and treat as required referring on to the wheelchair/seating clinic as appropriate. For further information please see attached job description Job description Job responsibilities Clinical: • Ensure that patients, relatives and those whom you encounter are aware of the role of the Occupational Therapist and components of the Occupational Therapy treatment programme. • Obtain informed consent from the patient, and work within the current legal framework for patients who lack capacity to consent, prior to commencing any treatment. • Select from a range of standardised and non-standardised assessments to assess and aid diagnosis, addressing disease management, sensory, cognitive, perceptual, behavioural, motor, splinting, psychosocial needs and functional abilities. This includes but is not limited to; social and environmental interviews, cognitive & perceptual tests, personal care assessments, kitchen assessments, and feeding assessments. • Make reliable interpretations of the assessment results, to inform other professionals in the diagnosis and management of the patients needs and guide the Occupational Therapy treatment plan and provide recommendations for rehabilitation and discharge planning. • Carry out home assessments and/or follow-up visits, where appropriate, to facilitate discharge. • Assess for and provide aids and adaptive equipment to increase, enable or compensate for independent function, teaching compensatory techniques as required. These include but are not limited to feeding, dressing, domestic activity and employment. Responsible for providing information and instruction for the safe use of the items provided. • Raising or authorise equipment requisition, as per policy. • Assess for wheelchairs, specialist seating and positioning needs and treat as required referring on to the wheelchair/seating clinic as appropriate. For further information please see attached job description