Reablement Therapist
JOB DESCRIPTION
Organisation: London Borough of Waltham Forest
Salary: £42,840 - £46,041
Contract Type: Full-time Permanent 3 x posts in total 2 FTE x Physio and FTE x 1 x Occupational Therapist (OT).
Working hours per week: 36
Application Deadline: Sun 26th May 2024
Reference:1174
About Us:
Bursting with culture, energy, and opportunity, the London Borough of Waltham Forest is a fantastic and exciting place to work.
We are a highly ambitious borough. Driven by culture and the innate creativity of our residents, we have developed new and innovative ways to build our communities. Our Council is relentlessly resident-focused, insight-led, digitally driven and commercially minded; a Council focused on meeting the needs of our existing and future residents.
London Borough of Waltham Forest is one of the Mayor of London's Good Work Standard employers. This accreditation is a proof of our commitment to creating a healthy, fair and inclusive workplace. This includes fair pay and conditions, workplace well-being, skills and progression and diversity and recruitment.
About the role: Therapist- occupational and Physio -HUB Active Recovery Team (HART)
The Home First model of care has been developed to improve hospital discharge and reduce avoidable admissions to hospital by presenting a new model of care for Integrated Intermediate Care services in Waltham Forest. Intermediate Care Services are provided to people to address their physical health needs in order to help them:
• Avoid admission into hospital or residential care unnecessarily
• Be discharged back home from hospital as early as possible
• Be as independent as possible after a stay in hospital.
These services are provided by both the NHS and Local Authorities. The new Home First model of care sets out to integrate these services into one cohesive intermediate care service in Waltham Forest.
We work collaboratively with occupational therapists, physiotherapists, community health colleagues and the local authority's equipment supplier, and through a team effort we help residents live their best lives as independently as possible. We are looking for therapists to join this team to work in an MDT setting to enable our residents to get the right size , right care. In your role as a therapist is vital to the successful outcomes for the resident and the opportunity to work collaboratively with our residents and partner agencies.
Here in Waltham Forest we are committed to supporting residents in the best possible way to help them to stay independent. We do this by exploring their goals and aspirations, and we focus on their abilities. In doing so, we are able to draw upon their strengths and their natural support networks. In this way, we believe that we can help individuals to retain their independence for longer, and maintain vital connections with their local communities. Waltham Forest Council is also committed to supporting and investing in the local authority's workforce.
Our ambition is that everyone in Waltham Forest has the opportunity to enjoy a good quality life. We have an outstanding leadership structure in place and dedicated staff in the local authority who keep the borough's vulnerable and at-risk population at the heart of everything we do.
There are opportunities to join our Hospital Social Work Service, which in Waltham Forest we call the Hub Active Recovery Team (HART). This service covers 7 days a week on a rota basis and offers Hybrid working.
The team cover the following settings:
We are seeking high caliber and creative applicants who, like us, are committed to building on residents' strengths and their natural support networks, rather than simply assessing people to determine their eligibility for a service. We are looking for therapists who firmly believe that it is essential to give the residents who we serve as much choice and control as possible over their day to day lives.
Staff in the team primarily assist residents who are new to Adult Social Care, the team's key objective is to work preventatively with vulnerable adults and to help them to live as independently as possible by providing them with the tools to be self-sufficient within their existing support networks and communities as well as safeguard them where appropriate. To achieve these goals, we offer reablement support for up to 6 weeks, and during this period we provide proactive case management follow up for residents.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Provide high quality physiotherapy/occupational therapists, 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. Responsible for undertaking comprehensive clinical assessments of service users.
4. Assess, plan, implement and evaluate physiotherapy treatments for specialist case load, in a variety of settings, as an autonomous practitioner.
5. Provide specialist clinical advice to other team members on the suitability of various assessments and intervention methods where appropriate.
6. Act at all times as a role model for Physiotherapy/ occupational Therapist, raising the profile and value of the role.
Leadership
1. Supervise Physiotherapy students and newly qualified practitioners
2. Establish positive and mutually supportive relationships with other members of the MDT
3. Promote the roles and skills of physiotherapy/occupational therapists, to other professionals.
4. Work alongside service users and carers/relatives to continually improve and maintain high quality practice in consultation with others.
5. Participate in research, audit reviews and other initiatives in accordance with Clinical Governance.
6. Evaluate the quality of own work and make improvements where necessary ensuring all issues and related risks are raised with Manager.
Clinical Skills
1. Provide specialist physiotherapy/occupational therapists, interventions to service users.
2. Undertake day to day clinical prioritisation and work planning
3. Contribute constructively to multi-disciplinary working to modify aspects of the environment in order to empower service users and facilitate optimal functional performance.
4. Manage a service user caseload as defined by the service
5. Apply knowledge of physiotherapy/occupational therapists, theory and evidence to in all assessments and interventions.
6. Ensure all physiotherapy/occupational therapists, treatments plans are developed in conjunction with clients and their carers communicating and negotiating in a style that positively engages them.
7. Make clear clinically informed decisions in order to delegate aspects of care to all professional and non-professional colleagues.
8. Assess service users and carers capacity for consent at all times.
9.Review and evaluate the effectiveness of therapy plans, interventions with service users and carers administrating outcome measures where expected and relevant.
10.Work with others to establish a service which facilitates the service users timely discharge from the service.
11.Demonstrate sensitive awareness to respond to challenging situations with service users and carers with appropriate supervision and support from senior staff.
12.Ensure treatment offered is based on the best available evidence for effectiveness in the specialist area where it is applied.
13.Exercise professional and clinical judgement in routine cases and refer to senior staff when necessary.
14.Promote recovery, empowerment and education of service users in relation to their holistic health and life course development.
You will need to be registered with HCPC & will need to provide your physiotherapy/occupational therapists, registration number on your application form. You will need to demonstrate the following:
Indicative Qualifications
Professional registration with HCPC
Degree or Diploma in Physiotherapy or Occupational Therapists (Specify on your application form which role you are applying for)
Evidence of Continuous Professional Development
Two/Three years or above post graduate experience in health, social care or related setting.
Thank you for your interest in this post.
What we will offer you
>> Click here to download the Role Profile Physio Therapist
Click here to downlad Role Profile Occupational Therapist
Terms and conditions
The below terms and conditions apply to this role:
Satisfactory employment references and CIFAS identity checks;
Satisfactory declaration of interest;
This role is subject to safer recruitment practices as it involves work with children and/ or vulnerable adults;
Satisfactory DBS check;
Continued professional body registration;
Suitable driver's license; desirable
As a public authority, we must ensure that members of staff in public-facing roles are able to speak fluent English. This means that they must have a command of spoken English, with confidence and accuracy, sufficient for the effective performance of their role. This requirement does not refer to any particular English language qualifications, regional or international accents, dialects, speech impediments or the tone of conversations. It does not require staff to speak only in English.
How to Apply:
Interested candidates are invited to submit their applications online by pressing the 'Apply' button below. This includes a supporting statement that outlines to us how your skills and experience make you a good candidate for this vacancy. We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
Equal Opportunity Employer:
Waltham Forest is a diverse borough where diversity is valued and is integral to both, service delivery and employment of its staff. The Council is proud of its rich mix of communities and as the largest employer in the area, it works hard to respond to the changing needs of its population. We use our statutory duties on race, gender and disability equality and best practice in respect of age, faith and sexual orientation to ensure equality of opportunity in the workplace. The Council is committed to meeting its 4 equality objectives: - Promoting equality of opportunity - Opposing all forms of discrimination, intolerance and disadvantage - Ensuring our workforce reflects the diverse communities of Waltham Forest at all levels. - Providing fair, appropriate, accessible and excellent Services to all. Respecting Diversity is a core Council value.
To support the above and reduce the risk of bias in its recruitment activities, the council is operating an anonymous shortlisting process, which hides personal information that can identify individuals until their application has been considered for shortlisting. The council also operates a scheme whereby, for jobs graded up to and including scale SO2, internal candidates are considered first. This includes those candidates who self-identify as having a disability for the purposes of the Disability Confident scheme. For more information, please refer to our recruitment and selection policy.
We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore, wherever possible, we will consider working arrangements that suit an individual's personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role, please contact the person named below or feel free to discuss this during your interview.
For more information on the benefits of working for the Council, please visit https://www.walthamforest.gov.uk/jobs-and-training/find-jobs-and-other-opportunities/working-us.
Contact Information:
If you have any questions about this vacancy or the application process, please contact Sharon Samain, Team Manager, Sharon.samain@walthamforest.gov.uk
If you have any technical issues when trying to apply for this post, please contact our Recruitment Team via email at recruitment@walthamforest.gov.uk.
The Council's preference is for online application. However, if you have a disability and are unable to complete an online application, please email recruitment@walthamforest.gov.uk so we can arrange an alternative application method.
Click here for further information on the Human Resources recruitment privacy notice.
Organisation: London Borough of Waltham Forest
Salary: £42,840 - £46,041
Contract Type: Full-time Permanent 3 x posts in total 2 FTE x Physio and FTE x 1 x Occupational Therapist (OT).
Working hours per week: 36
Application Deadline: Sun 26th May 2024
Reference:1174
About Us:
Bursting with culture, energy, and opportunity, the London Borough of Waltham Forest is a fantastic and exciting place to work.
We are a highly ambitious borough. Driven by culture and the innate creativity of our residents, we have developed new and innovative ways to build our communities. Our Council is relentlessly resident-focused, insight-led, digitally driven and commercially minded; a Council focused on meeting the needs of our existing and future residents.
London Borough of Waltham Forest is one of the Mayor of London's Good Work Standard employers. This accreditation is a proof of our commitment to creating a healthy, fair and inclusive workplace. This includes fair pay and conditions, workplace well-being, skills and progression and diversity and recruitment.
About the role: Therapist- occupational and Physio -HUB Active Recovery Team (HART)
The Home First model of care has been developed to improve hospital discharge and reduce avoidable admissions to hospital by presenting a new model of care for Integrated Intermediate Care services in Waltham Forest. Intermediate Care Services are provided to people to address their physical health needs in order to help them:
• Avoid admission into hospital or residential care unnecessarily
• Be discharged back home from hospital as early as possible
• Be as independent as possible after a stay in hospital.
These services are provided by both the NHS and Local Authorities. The new Home First model of care sets out to integrate these services into one cohesive intermediate care service in Waltham Forest.
We work collaboratively with occupational therapists, physiotherapists, community health colleagues and the local authority's equipment supplier, and through a team effort we help residents live their best lives as independently as possible. We are looking for therapists to join this team to work in an MDT setting to enable our residents to get the right size , right care. In your role as a therapist is vital to the successful outcomes for the resident and the opportunity to work collaboratively with our residents and partner agencies.
Here in Waltham Forest we are committed to supporting residents in the best possible way to help them to stay independent. We do this by exploring their goals and aspirations, and we focus on their abilities. In doing so, we are able to draw upon their strengths and their natural support networks. In this way, we believe that we can help individuals to retain their independence for longer, and maintain vital connections with their local communities. Waltham Forest Council is also committed to supporting and investing in the local authority's workforce.
Our ambition is that everyone in Waltham Forest has the opportunity to enjoy a good quality life. We have an outstanding leadership structure in place and dedicated staff in the local authority who keep the borough's vulnerable and at-risk population at the heart of everything we do.
There are opportunities to join our Hospital Social Work Service, which in Waltham Forest we call the Hub Active Recovery Team (HART). This service covers 7 days a week on a rota basis and offers Hybrid working.
The team cover the following settings:
- Acute
- Discharge to Assess
- Accident and Emergency
- DPTL (Delayed Patients Transfer List)
- Safeguarding Adults
- Out of Borough patients
- Homelessness
- In-patient Rehabilitation Provision
- Multi- disciplinary working
We are seeking high caliber and creative applicants who, like us, are committed to building on residents' strengths and their natural support networks, rather than simply assessing people to determine their eligibility for a service. We are looking for therapists who firmly believe that it is essential to give the residents who we serve as much choice and control as possible over their day to day lives.
Staff in the team primarily assist residents who are new to Adult Social Care, the team's key objective is to work preventatively with vulnerable adults and to help them to live as independently as possible by providing them with the tools to be self-sufficient within their existing support networks and communities as well as safeguard them where appropriate. To achieve these goals, we offer reablement support for up to 6 weeks, and during this period we provide proactive case management follow up for residents.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Provide high quality physiotherapy/occupational therapists, 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. Responsible for undertaking comprehensive clinical assessments of service users.
4. Assess, plan, implement and evaluate physiotherapy treatments for specialist case load, in a variety of settings, as an autonomous practitioner.
5. Provide specialist clinical advice to other team members on the suitability of various assessments and intervention methods where appropriate.
6. Act at all times as a role model for Physiotherapy/ occupational Therapist, raising the profile and value of the role.
Leadership
1. Supervise Physiotherapy students and newly qualified practitioners
2. Establish positive and mutually supportive relationships with other members of the MDT
3. Promote the roles and skills of physiotherapy/occupational therapists, to other professionals.
4. Work alongside service users and carers/relatives to continually improve and maintain high quality practice in consultation with others.
5. Participate in research, audit reviews and other initiatives in accordance with Clinical Governance.
6. Evaluate the quality of own work and make improvements where necessary ensuring all issues and related risks are raised with Manager.
Clinical Skills
1. Provide specialist physiotherapy/occupational therapists, interventions to service users.
2. Undertake day to day clinical prioritisation and work planning
3. Contribute constructively to multi-disciplinary working to modify aspects of the environment in order to empower service users and facilitate optimal functional performance.
4. Manage a service user caseload as defined by the service
5. Apply knowledge of physiotherapy/occupational therapists, theory and evidence to in all assessments and interventions.
6. Ensure all physiotherapy/occupational therapists, treatments plans are developed in conjunction with clients and their carers communicating and negotiating in a style that positively engages them.
7. Make clear clinically informed decisions in order to delegate aspects of care to all professional and non-professional colleagues.
8. Assess service users and carers capacity for consent at all times.
9.Review and evaluate the effectiveness of therapy plans, interventions with service users and carers administrating outcome measures where expected and relevant.
10.Work with others to establish a service which facilitates the service users timely discharge from the service.
11.Demonstrate sensitive awareness to respond to challenging situations with service users and carers with appropriate supervision and support from senior staff.
12.Ensure treatment offered is based on the best available evidence for effectiveness in the specialist area where it is applied.
13.Exercise professional and clinical judgement in routine cases and refer to senior staff when necessary.
14.Promote recovery, empowerment and education of service users in relation to their holistic health and life course development.
You will need to be registered with HCPC & will need to provide your physiotherapy/occupational therapists, registration number on your application form. You will need to demonstrate the following:
- Engage with individuals, carers, families, groups and communities to assess and intervene preventatively using your knowledge and skills, and develop person-led Support Plans to meet the needs of individuals that promote choice, control and independence.
- Be able to use a strength-based approach to assessment to support individuals to identify and develop their support networks and consider positive risk-taking and /or overprescribing care to enhance their wellbeing.
- Be able to identify safeguarding concerns if vulnerable residents have experienced harm
- Be responsible for delivering high quality and legally compliant therapeutic support in a timely way to agreed standards.
- Be able to complete "court fit" mental capacity assessments and engage residents and their families in best interest decision-making where required.
Indicative Qualifications
Professional registration with HCPC
Degree or Diploma in Physiotherapy or Occupational Therapists (Specify on your application form which role you are applying for)
Evidence of Continuous Professional Development
Two/Three years or above post graduate experience in health, social care or related setting.
Thank you for your interest in this post.
What we will offer you
- Training and development opportunities
- An appraisal structure
- Supportive management Team
- Excellent supervision
>> Click here to download the Role Profile Physio Therapist
Click here to downlad Role Profile Occupational Therapist
Terms and conditions
The below terms and conditions apply to this role:
Satisfactory employment references and CIFAS identity checks;
Satisfactory declaration of interest;
This role is subject to safer recruitment practices as it involves work with children and/ or vulnerable adults;
Satisfactory DBS check;
Continued professional body registration;
Suitable driver's license; desirable
As a public authority, we must ensure that members of staff in public-facing roles are able to speak fluent English. This means that they must have a command of spoken English, with confidence and accuracy, sufficient for the effective performance of their role. This requirement does not refer to any particular English language qualifications, regional or international accents, dialects, speech impediments or the tone of conversations. It does not require staff to speak only in English.
How to Apply:
Interested candidates are invited to submit their applications online by pressing the 'Apply' button below. This includes a supporting statement that outlines to us how your skills and experience make you a good candidate for this vacancy. We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
Equal Opportunity Employer:
Waltham Forest is a diverse borough where diversity is valued and is integral to both, service delivery and employment of its staff. The Council is proud of its rich mix of communities and as the largest employer in the area, it works hard to respond to the changing needs of its population. We use our statutory duties on race, gender and disability equality and best practice in respect of age, faith and sexual orientation to ensure equality of opportunity in the workplace. The Council is committed to meeting its 4 equality objectives: - Promoting equality of opportunity - Opposing all forms of discrimination, intolerance and disadvantage - Ensuring our workforce reflects the diverse communities of Waltham Forest at all levels. - Providing fair, appropriate, accessible and excellent Services to all. Respecting Diversity is a core Council value.
To support the above and reduce the risk of bias in its recruitment activities, the council is operating an anonymous shortlisting process, which hides personal information that can identify individuals until their application has been considered for shortlisting. The council also operates a scheme whereby, for jobs graded up to and including scale SO2, internal candidates are considered first. This includes those candidates who self-identify as having a disability for the purposes of the Disability Confident scheme. For more information, please refer to our recruitment and selection policy.
We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore, wherever possible, we will consider working arrangements that suit an individual's personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role, please contact the person named below or feel free to discuss this during your interview.
For more information on the benefits of working for the Council, please visit https://www.walthamforest.gov.uk/jobs-and-training/find-jobs-and-other-opportunities/working-us.
Contact Information:
If you have any questions about this vacancy or the application process, please contact Sharon Samain, Team Manager, Sharon.samain@walthamforest.gov.uk
If you have any technical issues when trying to apply for this post, please contact our Recruitment Team via email at recruitment@walthamforest.gov.uk.
The Council's preference is for online application. However, if you have a disability and are unable to complete an online application, please email recruitment@walthamforest.gov.uk so we can arrange an alternative application method.
Click here for further information on the Human Resources recruitment privacy notice.
Equal Opportunities
Waltham Forest is a diverse borough where diversity is valued and is integral to both, service delivery and employment of its staff. The Council is proud of its rich mix of communities and as the largest employer in the area, it works hard to respond to the changing needs of its population. We use our statutory duties on race, gender and disability equality and best practice in respect of age, faith and sexual orientation to ensure equality of opportunity in the workplace. The Council is committed to meeting its 4 equality objectives: - Promoting equality of opportunity - Opposing all forms of discrimination, intolerance and disadvantage - Ensuring our workforce reflects the diverse communities of Waltham Forest at all levels. - Providing fair, appropriate, accessible and excellent Services to all. Respecting Diversity is a core Council value. To support the above and reduce the risk of bias in its recruitment activities, the council is operating an anonymous shortlisting process, which hides personal information that can identify individuals until their application has been considered for shortlisting. The council also operates a scheme whereby, for jobs graded up to and including scale SO2, internal candidates are considered first. This includes those candidates who self-identify as having a disability for the purposes of the Disability Confident scheme. For more information, please refer to our recruitment and selection policy