Occupational Therapist - Edinburgh Community Rehabilitation and Support Services - 14343_1776940670

Occupational Therapist
Edinburgh Community Rehabilitation and Support Services

Salary: £40,501 - £47,639
Hours: 36 per week

Occupational Therapy (OT) services provide diverse and specialist clinical services to a diverse range of patients and clinical conditions across a wide variety of settings in acute and community and partner organisations. These include patients referred to National and tertiary services as well as local services for Lothian residents.

This post sits within the Locality Hubs and is a community based role.

Occupational Therapists are autonomous practitioners specifically qualified to comprehensively assess a patient's functional ability and capacity to manage all daily activities to maximise an individual potential to live independently. They enable children and adults to make the most of their skills and abilities, to develop and maintain healthy lifestyles by providing specialist diagnostic assessment and treatment services. Occupational Therapists are critical to assessment, diagnosis, treatment, rehabilitation and ongoing management of individual's lifestyle management.

To work as an Occupational Therapist undertaking a range of occupational therapy services including assessment and care management of service users needs.

To deliver occupational therapy services in accordance with current legislation and Council procedures and standards. The post holder will be required to participate in the delivery of a responsive and needs led service, ensuring that the appropriate safeguards are in place.

To promote effective multi-disciplinary working with other disciplines aimed at providing a good level of service to service users.

Major Tasks

1. Direct Occupational Therapist practice (70%)
2. Training and development (15%)
3. Role in child or adult protection incidents and concerns (15%)

Job Activities

Direct Occupational Therapist practice

To undertake assessment and care management arrangements for clients promoting a multi-disciplinary approach to service user needs.

To carry an agreed caseload as allocated by the line manager, taking responsibility for organising and prioritising own caseload and workload management.

To promote and facilitate good manual handling practice, including risk assessment, updating care plans and identifying training needs.

To assess for, prescribe and facilitate provision of equipment in accordance with good practice and Council policies, and review as required.

To assess for, plan and facilitate provision of minor and major adaptation work, working with other agencies as required, in accordance with good practice and Council policies.

To identify and access appropriate resources to meet identified needs.

To develop care plans in consultation with service users and their carers.

Rehabilitation of service users in the community.

To work collaboratively with multidisciplinary team members in the community, observing the principles of single shared assessment and joint working.

To work in accordance with relevant legislation and Council policies and procedures.

To record in a manner that is accurate, complete and conforms to the Councils requirements.

To attend team and any other relevant meetings.

To represent the interests of the Council in all dealings with service users, carers, multidisciplinary staff and other professionals.

Training and development

To maintain a good working knowledge of relevant legislation and of the Councils policies and procedures.

To undertake the Manual Handling Risk Assessment/Facilitator course and re-accreditation as required.

To complete the Council's mandatory training.

To participate in appropriate personal and professional development and training opportunities.

To participate in formal supervision sessions as required.

Child or adult protection

To raise any child or adult protection concerns with the line manager and to recommend the need for initiating either a child or adult protection enquiry and/or investigation.

This post is regulated work with children and/or protected adults under the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act 2007. The preferred candidate will be required to join the PVG Scheme or undergo a PVG Scheme update check. Where an individual has spent a continuous period of 3 months or more out with the UK in the last 5 years, an Overseas Criminal Record Check will be required. You will be required to provide this check. An unconditional offer of employment and commencement in the post will be subject to the outcome of both these pre-employment checks being deemed satisfactory

We are committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce where everyone feels valued and able to be their best. We particularly encourage applications from women for senior roles, as well as people from minority ethnic backgrounds, people with disabilities or neurodivergent people, care experienced people, carers and LGBT+ people across all levels of the organisation, all of whom are currently underrepresented. All applicants will be considered fairly based on skills and experience. Disabled and care-experienced applicants who meet the minimum job criteria will be guaranteed an interview.

Find out more about our commitment to equalities https://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/work-us/inclusive-edinburgh/4

As part of our goal to improve organisational culture and create a great place to work together for the people of Edinburgh, we want to make sure we're recruiting the best people. We're interested not only in your skills and experience but also in your approach to work. Therefore, part of our interview process will be an assessment of how you would bring Our Behaviours of Respect, Integrity and Flexibility into your ways of working.

You can find out more on Our Behaviours web page Our Behaviours - The City of Edinburgh Council

Our salary range typically reflects the initial starting salary and annually increases until it reaches the top of the range.

Happy to talk flexible working.

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