Specialist Occupational Therapist

To work across the services which provide Virtual Wards, Urgent Community Response, Discharge to Assess and short term rehabilitation. To provide care to people in their own homes to prevent admission/ readmission to hospital by providing rapid assessment of patients in the community over seven days. Undertake comprehensive holistic assessment of patients in both planned and unplanned situations, be able to prioritise clinical need, initiating investigations, determine a differential diagnosis and implement a plan of care reflecting evidence based guidance. To sustain agreed standards of care in to order to maintain integrity and dignity of all patients in an environment which is conducive to delivering care in their usual place of residence or temporary place of residence including bed based rehabilitation. Undertake triage within the service determining clinical priority of calls, working as a coordinator ensure teams are dispatched to respond to the referrals Work collaboratively with multi professional teams to ensure practice is efficient, effective and evidence based To develop his /her scope of professional practice in order to support the team to meet service requirements in accordance with professional guidelines To ensure the provision of expert knowledge to all users of the service FOR FULL JOB DESCRIPTION SEE ATTACHMENT Job description Job responsibilities To work across the services which provide Virtual Wards, Urgent Community Response, Discharge to Assess and short term rehabilitation. To provide care to people in their own homes to prevent admission/ readmission to hospital by providing rapid assessment of patients in the community over seven days. Undertake comprehensive holistic assessment of patients in both planned and unplanned situations, be able to prioritise clinical need, initiating investigations, determine a differential diagnosis and implement a plan of care reflecting evidence based guidance. To sustain agreed standards of care in to order to maintain integrity and dignity of all patients in an environment which is conducive to delivering care in their usual place of residence or temporary place of residence including bed based rehabilitation. Undertake triage within the service determining clinical priority of calls, working as a coordinator ensure teams are dispatched to respond to the referrals Work collaboratively with multi professional teams to ensure practice is efficient, effective and evidence based To develop his /her scope of professional practice in order to support the team to meet service requirements in accordance with professional guidelines To ensure the provision of expert knowledge to all users of the service FOR FULL JOB DESCRIPTION SEE ATTACHMENT