Occupational Therapist

• Work autonomously, without direct supervision and be accountable for own professional actions. They will support the delivery of a peripatetic OT service within OH. • Provide clinical advice and training on the clinical value of OT input in OH to other members of the multidisciplinary team, and external agencies / organisations as requested. • Assist the Occupational Medicine Consultant in providing timely and appropriate OH advice to key stakeholders, with appropriate reference to Joint and sS policies and current OH guidance and DPHC best practice guidelines. • Have direct responsibility for a caseload, ensuring all SP have an accurate plan of care, which reflects the assessment undertaken and incorporates the issues and recommendations made. • Assess Service Personnel with a range of diagnoses and interpreting complex biopsychosocial factors which may impact on the Service Persons ability to return to work, including the impact on functional capacity of the diagnosis and prognosis. • Undertake specific OT standardised and non-standardised assessments of function and activities such as workplace adaptions, Functional Capacity Evaluation (FCE) and job demand analysis in support of OH deliverables. This will involve making complex clinical decisions and generating specialist reports. • Assess individuals and identify population trends using a range of assessment and intervention methods. • Application of human factor and vocational rehabilitation principles in clinical activities such as ergonomic and workplace assessments, and job demand analysis, alongside other OT / OH clinical activities. • Provide specialist advice, guidance and training to service personnel, the CoC and other healthcare professionals following OT / OH intervention, aligned to professional and organisational policies. • Deliver complex, specialist OT and OH interventions, collaboratively with the service personnel and the CoC. • Use advanced clinical reasoning to interpret and analyse highly complex clinical and non-clinical evidence to develop comprehensive intervention plans in support of return or retention, working in partnership with SP and CoC. • May be required to work outside of standard working hours and support other DPHC sites where there is a business need for them to do so. This will be within a reasonable travelling distance defined in MoD policy. Job description Job responsibilities • Work autonomously, without direct supervision and be accountable for own professional actions. They will support the delivery of a peripatetic OT service within OH. • Provide clinical advice and training on the clinical value of OT input in OH to other members of the multidisciplinary team, and external agencies / organisations as requested. • Assist the Occupational Medicine Consultant in providing timely and appropriate OH advice to key stakeholders, with appropriate reference to Joint and sS policies and current OH guidance and DPHC best practice guidelines. • Have direct responsibility for a caseload, ensuring all SP have an accurate plan of care, which reflects the assessment undertaken and incorporates the issues and recommendations made. • Assess Service Personnel with a range of diagnoses and interpreting complex biopsychosocial factors which may impact on the Service Persons ability to return to work, including the impact on functional capacity of the diagnosis and prognosis. • Undertake specific OT standardised and non-standardised assessments of function and activities such as workplace adaptions, Functional Capacity Evaluation (FCE) and job demand analysis in support of OH deliverables. This will involve making complex clinical decisions and generating specialist reports. • Assess individuals and identify population trends using a range of assessment and intervention methods. • Application of human factor and vocational rehabilitation principles in clinical activities such as ergonomic and workplace assessments, and job demand analysis, alongside other OT / OH clinical activities. • Provide specialist advice, guidance and training to service personnel, the CoC and other healthcare professionals following OT / OH intervention, aligned to professional and organisational policies. • Deliver complex, specialist OT and OH interventions, collaboratively with the service personnel and the CoC. • Use advanced clinical reasoning to interpret and analyse highly complex clinical and non-clinical evidence to develop comprehensive intervention plans in support of return or retention, working in partnership with SP and CoC. • May be required to work outside of standard working hours and support other DPHC sites where there is a business need for them to do so. This will be within a reasonable travelling distance defined in MoD policy.