Highly Specialist Occupational Therapist | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

The Reablement Team provides support to Greenwich residents who have rehabilitation or reablement needs and allows them to be supported in their own homes. The aim of the team is to promote independence and safety of service users, reduce care packages and prevent early long-term placements. The team is managed by Social Services for the Royal Borough of Greenwich and support is provided by trained support workers. The Occupational Therapist will have a role in the MDT in designing and monitoring progress of rehabilitation/Reablement care plans for clients referred to the team. The role of the Occupational therapist will be:

• To provide highly specialist Occupational Therapy assessments for clients receiving input from the Reablement Team
• To lead in the delivery of a specialist Occupational Therapy service within the multidisciplinary team as an autonomous practitioner, ensuring the highest possible standards of practice.
• To deliver a broad range of training programmes covering all aspects of Occupational Therapy rehabilitation and professional development to the multidisciplinary team.
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes. We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people. Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:
• We're Kind
• We're Fair
• We Listen
• We Care
·To undertake Reablement assessments, risk assessments, goal setting and support planning, reviews and make appropriate recommendations for on-going care as required. ·To deliver and support a reablement programme, empowering users and families to participate in the management of their illness or disability. Setting goal plans for community reablement workers to follow. ·To be professionally and legally responsible and accountable for all professional activities ·To demonstrate theoretical knowledge of acute, multiple, complex, and long-term pathologies and impairments in the assessment of clients ·To be responsible and accountable for management and implementation of client rehabilitation programmes in the community ·To prescribe, delegate and monitor the work of support workers in the reablement team ·To provide an excellent standard of highly specialist Occupational Therapy assessment as an autonomous and lone practitioner to clients including those with highly complex cases where advanced clinical reasoning skills, evidence based practice and expertise are essential to develop effective, individual care plans ·To work with Occupational therapy teams in social services and other health teams to ensure that pathways of care are followed ·To demonstrate enhanced theoretical knowledge of multiple pathologies and impairments in the assessment of community clients ·To monitor, review and continually re-assess clients care plans and objectives against outcomes measured in order to facilitate modification of packages of care/targets as appropriate to enable achievement of their goals ·Maintain effective multidisciplinary communication with other members of the team and the wider clinical network to ensure that client's needs are met. ·To work in a co-ordinated, multi-disciplinary manner, communicating effectively with other team members and the wider clinical network involved in client care ·To provide highly specialist advice and education to client, carers and relatives based on clinical evidence

An opportunity has arisen for a Band 7 Occupational therapist specialised in rehab and reablement to work within the Community integrated Greenwich Reablement team. Greenwich. We are looking for an experienced and highly motivated Band 7 therapist to join the team, with excellent communication skills and a positive approach to the management of patients in community The post holder will work closely with the service Lead and band 7 Physiotherapist and the wider Reablement MDT Team across borough of Greenwich. You need to be a confident autonomous practitioner with high level leadership and communication skills, a flexible problem-solving approach, good clinical reasoning skills, and be efficient in your time and people management. The role offers opportunities to develop expertise in rehabilitation and reablement alongside regular supervision, support for professional development, and involvement in research and audit projects. We are an innovative team who are a passionate about the specialist service we provide offering skilled development., Disability Confident About Disability Confident A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. For more details please go to .