Community Band 6 Occupational Therapist Role 

Intermediate Care

Job Title: Locum Occupational Therapist

Location: Peterborough 

Start Date: ASAP

End Date: Ongoing

•    To work across Pathway 1 (care at home) and Pathway 2 (Health Interim beds and Inpatient Rehabilitation units) for the Intermediate Care service.
•    To work as an autonomous practitioner within the integrated multi-professional team.
•    To be responsible for patients on the shared caseloads of community and/or inpatient settings.
•    To undertake assessment of patients with complex and multiple pathologies using specialist clinical reasoning skills.
•    To identify patient needs, agree goals and provide appropriate therapy interventions, provide equipment and rehabilitation programmes.
•    To take a holistic approach to all therapeutic interventions, working across professional boundaries at times.
•    To keep the patient at the centre of care, ensuring patient and carer participation in decision making.
•    To provide support and education to peers, junior staff, non-registered staff, and students.
•    To supervise and support education of junior staff and students, overseeing patient intervention and ensure that Band 5 Therapists, Therapy Assistant Practitioners, and Integrated Care Workers deliver high quality patient care.
•    To be accountable for a delegated task and activities undertaken by Band 5 Therapists, Therapy Assistant Practitioners, and Integrated Support Workers.
•    To prioritise all patients’ according to clinical need and to allocate or signpost tasks appropriately.
•    To always provide a high standard of care.
•    To provide resilience and cover to other locality teams as required due to operational demands and system pressures.

• Qualified Occupational Therapist

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