Specialist Occupational Therapist Elderly Care

• To be professionally and legally accountable for ensuring all work meets Trust, legal, and professional standards, including compliance with policies, procedures, and governance frameworks. • To communicate effectively with patients, relatives, and carers, addressing barriers such as cognitive, sensory, cultural, or language challenges, to support understanding and self-management of health conditions. • To lead the professional development of junior staff, students, and support staff by planning and delivering induction programmes, teaching core clinical skills, and contributing to performance appraisals. • To undertake evidence-based service evaluation and quality improvement initiatives, including contributing to audits, research, and outcome measurement projects to enhance team practice and patient experience. • To maintain and develop personal professional knowledge through ongoing CPD, participation in training, tutorials, journal clubs, clinical networks, and special interest groups, ensuring current best practice is applied. • To manage resources and equipment effectively, including stock, departmental supplies, and clinical equipment, ensuring safe use, training of others, and compliance with health and safety regulations. Job description Job responsibilities • To be professionally and legally accountable for ensuring all work meets Trust, legal, and professional standards, including compliance with policies, procedures, and governance frameworks. • To communicate effectively with patients, relatives, and carers, addressing barriers such as cognitive, sensory, cultural, or language challenges, to support understanding and self-management of health conditions. • To lead the professional development of junior staff, students, and support staff by planning and delivering induction programmes, teaching core clinical skills, and contributing to performance appraisals. • To undertake evidence-based service evaluation and quality improvement initiatives, including contributing to audits, research, and outcome measurement projects to enhance team practice and patient experience. • To maintain and develop personal professional knowledge through ongoing CPD, participation in training, tutorials, journal clubs, clinical networks, and special interest groups, ensuring current best practice is applied. • To manage resources and equipment effectively, including stock, departmental supplies, and clinical equipment, ensuring safe use, training of others, and compliance with health and safety regulations.