Highly Specialist Occupational Therapist

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 clients 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 For full details please refer to attached JD and PS