B6 Occupational Therapist Outpatient Falls prevention and Elderly Care

Role Description

Provide specialist occupational therapy for older patients attending falls, memory, and care of the elderly outpatient clinics. This includes managing a caseload of patients, providing specialist assessment and occupational therapy input in an outpatient and community setting.

• Work in partnership with other members of the Bryning MDT, as well as other community services, including voluntary organisations to provide holistic patient-centred care for this patient group.
• Provide clinical supervision and appraisal for Band 5 occupational therapists, therapy assistants, and students.
• Participate in ongoing service evaluation and development.
• Undertake a Specialist Occupational Therapy assessment and implementation of therapy interventions of older clients attending falls, memory, and care of the elderly clinics as an autonomous practitioner. This includes using analytical, clinical reasoning skills, and appropriate outcome measures.
• Complete a variety of cognitive assessments either in clinic or in the clients' home and then communicate the findings from the assessment to the rest of the MDT.
• Undertake patient/client home visits independently or with other health professionals to assess cognition and environmental falls risk, recommend any appropriate equipment/adaptation.
• Ordering of equipment following visits, and re-assessment of patients with these items.
• Liaise with and refer to external agencies, statutory voluntary, and commercial to ensure effective holistic care.
• Maintain accurate and comprehensive problem-orientated documentation in accordance with local and professional standards. This will involve the use of an electronic patient record.