Occupational Therapist - Mildenhall INT

Please see attached Job Description for full duties and responsibilities.

Key tasks

Communication To establish, maintain and participate in robust multi-disciplinary communication networks, for self and team, with clients, carers and other health workers and agencies involved in client care. To promote awareness of the role of Occupational Therapy within the team, in relation to all aspects of patient care, negotiating priorities where appropriate, informing the Integrated Services Implementation Plan using high level of presentation and training skills. To promote the role of the multi-disciplinary rehabilitation services within Suffolk Community Healthcare, in relation to all aspects of client care, informing the Integrated Services Implementation Plan. To participate in and maintain robust professional communication systems within own and other professional teams. To contribute to relevant meetings with Suffolk Community Healthcare colleagues. To provide highly complex information to the clients, clinicians and other agencies to assist in decision-making, using persuasive, motivational, negotiating, training, empathic and re-assurance skills. To ensure that self and junior members of the team maintain up-to-date written and electronic data, where applicable, in accordance with professional andstandards and in compliance with Confidentiality of Information policy. To ensure self and all members of the team provide therapy reports relevant to the clients situations Personal and People Development To contribute to a robust induction process for all new staff in the multi-disciplinary services and all students on placement. To participate and support the Practice Placement Education of professional, NVQ and work experience students. To act as specialist witness for NVQ candidates. To plan, contribute and participate in robust in-service training programmes for the staff. To apply highly developed specialist knowledge and skills in order to demonstrate professional competence and fitness to practice in multi-disciplinary services. To demonstrate ongoing personal development of self and junior staff through participation in internal and external training and development opportunities, recording learning outcomes in a portfolio. Develop self and others through regular one to ones and supervision.