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Neighbourhood rehabilitation service (home based occupational therapy)
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About the service
The community occupational therapy service provides a high-quality service for adults over the age of 16 within their own home, residential or nursing home.
We help people with complex physical disabilities and neurological impairments maximise their independence within the community.
The team provides a range of services including:
- Assessment of an individual’s needs and skills
- Goal orientated programmes to improve function and independence in a wide range of day to day activities
- Physical and cognitive rehabilitation
- Neurological splinting and splinting review
- Advice on positioning and posture
- Fatigue management
- Advice and training to staff, carers and other professionals
- Upper limb rehabilitation groups
- Vocational rehabilitation (return to work programmes)
Documents and leaflets
Why would someone choose the service?
- Assessment and therapy provided in a variety of settings to meet patients’ needs
- Knowledge and skills to provide excellent outcomes and recovery
- Can provide support to patients, families and carers including those nearing end of life or needing a palliative or emotionally supportive approach
- Excellent links and joint working with other professionals eg physiotherapy, occupational therapy, dietitians, doctors etc
- Flexibility in appointment times and modes of therapy delivery
- Patient centred, holistic approach to treatment,
- Responsive, problem-solving approach to patient’s problems/concerns
Staff you may meet
- Administrative staff provide essential support to doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals. This can be in a variety of different settings, with administrators working as a receptionist in a clinic or a clerk on a ward. They may also be working closely with a consultant as a medical secretary.
- Occupational therapy is the assessment and treatment of physical and psychiatric conditions using specific, purposeful activity to prevent disability and promote independent function in all aspects of daily life.
Why a professional should choose the service
- A patient-centred approach to treatment
- Support people to remain in their own homes
- Support people to regain or maintain independence in day-to-day activities
- Support people to remain active and achieve their goals
- Prevention of admission to hospital
- Excellent allied health professional network for referral on/shared working
- Highly skilled and trained workforce
- Flexible and adaptable workforce
- Appointments offered at a variety of times to meet patient needs
- A wide range of interventions including individual and/or group treatment
- The ability for patients to self-refer
- Monitoring/support for long-term or deteriorating neurological conditions
- All therapists Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) registered and monitored to ensure maintenance of professional standards
Support offered
- Telephone advice
- Full comprehensive assessment including environmental assessment within the persons own home/care home and local area
- Onward referral
- Supporting self-care/management
- Emotional support to client and families
- Reassessment and monitoring of patients especially those with long-term neurological and progressive conditions
- Neurological splinting for upper limb
- Fatigue management
- Access to public services/areas
- Vocational rehabilitation (return to work programmes)
Outcomes
- We help people with complex disabilities and neurological impairments maximise their independence within their community
- Increase self-management of long-term conditions
- Management and prevention of postural/positioning problems
Referrals accepted from:
AHPs, Carers/family, Consultants, GP staff, GPs, Health visitors, Hospital staff, Housing associations, Local authority staff, Midwives, Other NHS services, Other Trust services, Patients(self-referral), Voluntary services
Referrals also accepted from:
Referrals also accepted from community nurses and care agencies.
Referral criteria:
Professional referrals: Complete a referral form and forward this to the physical health single point of access (SPA).
Patient and public referrals: Call the single point of access on 01226 644575 and ask for the home based occupational therapy service.
People referring to the service must:
- Be over the age of 16
- Live within the Barnsley borough or be registered with a Barnsley GP
- Have a therapeutic goal that can be addressed in a community setting
Exclusions
Patients should not be referred:
- If they are less than 16 years old
- If they have an out of area GP and also live outside the Barnsley borough
- For the supply of wheelchair only (patients must be already receiving occupational therapy and not be referred solely for wheelchair assessment)