Occupational Therapist
Duration: Temporary, 3 months
Location: Bristol
Hours: Monday – Friday, 37.5 hours
Rate: £17-£23 via an umbrella company
Venn Group is currently recruiting for an Occupational Therapist on behalf of a reputable NHS Trust based in Bristol. This is an interim contract for 3 months offering £17-£23 via an umbrella company. For this position, you will be working full-time hours (Monday to Friday).
Outline duties below:
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Managing a caseload of service users with complex needs, using specialist Occupational Therapy assessment and intervention skills
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Monitoring, evaluate and modify treatment in order to measure progress and to ensure effective intervention
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Working within a multi-disciplinary setting
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Providing Occupational Therapy advice to service users and their carers to promote aims of Occupational Therapy and to ensure a consistent approach to care
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Participating in the setting of quality standards, including the auditing, monitoring and reviewing of practice in line with current clinical guidance practice and policy
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Carrying out work under the guiding principles of clinical governance
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Assessing patient's individual care needs, develop, implement and evaluate programmes of care
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Delivering a range of non-pharmacological interventions following specific occupational therapy assessments to enable understanding of any expression of an unmet need and to maximise an individual’s abilities
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Completing and contribute, where appropriate to robust risk assessments and risk management plans. Deliver and promote positive risk taking, where appropriate, to improve quality of life and maximise occupational performance/independence
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Maintaining an effective reporting system by observing and reporting verbally and in writing on patient conditions
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Utilising agreed outcome measures to review the effectiveness of interventions, as part of the care planning and evaluation process
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Supporting in the provision of formal and informal training of pre/post registration students, staff members, carers and service users
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Contributing to the ongoing development of the Occupational Therapy Service for adults
To discuss this role in more detail and to secure this opportunity, please contact Leah Waldron or Thomas Brown on 0121 616 0660 or alternatively email lwaldron@venngroup.com
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