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Domiciliary occupational therapy rehabilitation service
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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,
- Community domiciliary satisfaction survey results – 100% said we treated patients with dignity and respect; 100 % said it was very likely or likely they would recommend the service to family/friends
- 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 (part of Barnsley therapy services www.barnsleytherapy.co.uk)
- Successful outcome measures eg stroke
- Highly skilled and trained workforce
- Flexible and adaptable workforce
- Appointments offered at a variety of times to meet patient needs, including evening groups
- Community domiciliary satisfaction survey results – 100% said we treated patients with dignity and respect; 100 % said it was very likely or likely they would recommend the service to family/friends
- 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
- Adaptable/responsive service to meet therapeutic need
Support offered
- Telephone advice
- Full comprehensive assessment including environmental assessment within the persons own home/care home and local area
- Group therapy
- Onward referral
- Supporting self-care/management
- Training/education of families/carers
- Training to/education other professionals
- 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
- Education of carers/relatives
- Better inclusion within the local community
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:
Method of referral: by telephone or by post. Please note we are not a Choose and Book service.
People referring to the service must be:
- Over the age of 16
- 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 aged less than 16 years old
- If they have an out of area GP
- If they have a primary mental health problem (refer to mental health services),
- For the supply of wheelchairs only (patients should not be referred solely for wheelchair assessment)
- For moving and handling assessments (refer to the equipment and adaptations team)
- For equipment only or for major adaptations to properties (refer to the equipment and adaptations team)