About the role
Salary: £49397.00 to £56515.00
Provide high quality, highly specialist Occupational Therapy clinical expertise and service.
2. Responsible for the development and implementation of high standards of clinical care, ensuring the
service provided is needs led, compliant with national guidance and is viewed positively by service
users.
3. Undertake a leading role in planning, coordinating, delivering and evaluating the community
Occupational Therapy Service provided to children and young people in Waltham Forest
4. Responsible for undertaking advanced comprehensive clinical assessments of service users.
5. Assess, plan, implement and evaluate Occupational Therapy interventions for specialist case load, in
a variety of settings, as an autonomous practitioner.
6. Provide highly specialist clinical advice to other team members on the suitability of various
assessments and intervention methods where appropriate.
To work within Trust clinical guidelines and HCPC/BAOT professional guidelines and to have a good
knowledge of national and local standards and monitor their own and others quality of practice as
appropriate.
2. To take responsibility for the management of the caseload and organisation of the workload in the
team to meet service priorities.
3. To demonstrate flexibility in adjusting plans as situations/need arises.
4. Establish positive and mutually supportive relationships with all Occupational Therapy staff.
5. Promote the roles and skills of Occupational Therapy to other professionals.
6. Work alongside service users and carers/relatives to continually improve and maintain high quality
practice in consultation with others.
7. Participate in research, audit reviews and other initiatives in accordance with Clinical Governance.
8. Measure and evaluate the quality of own work and that of more junior and support staff, make
improvements where necessary, recommendations for change and ensure all issues and related risks
are raised with Manager.
9. To be responsible for co-ordinating student placements within the team as needed and supporting
Band 6 clinical educators.
10. Report all complaints and or incidents in accordance with Trust procedures and ensure Manager is
informed.
Clinical Skills
1. To formulate accurate, occupation focused assessment and intervention in a wide range of highly
complex conditions. To use interpretative and analytical skills in
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