Services the Consultancy Service can provide
Health and Social Care Organisations
What can the Consultancy Service do for you?
- Service re-design - ensuring your service meets current needs
- Service integration - looking at the available options
- Management advice - providing professional and clinical leadership
- Bench marking - for quality of service delivery using national standards
- Waiting list - developing management strategies
- Staffing establishment and skill mix review
- Recruitment and retention strategies
- Clinical Governance - outcome measures / audit / research
- Continuous Professional Development - training and development for staff
- Supervision / Mentoring - experts for all areas of occupational therapy
Why use the Consultancy Service?
- A tailor made service to meet your unique needs.
- Quality Assurance – we ensure you get the right advisor for the job and have quality control measures in place.
How can the Consultancy Service help you?
- Service improvement / review - providing you with a confidential report and recommendations to move forward
- Facilitated workshops / awaydays
- In service training - designed to the meet the needs of your service
- Expert advice - tailored to your needs
How do we do this?
Through the provision of the highest standards of expert, professional opinion and advice informed by research, innovation and the promotion of excellence within good practice. The Consultancy Service aims to provide advice to support the delivery of efficient, reliable and effective services that are in line with the Government's modernisation agenda.
Complaints
The College fully supports service users’ rights to obtain the best quality service available. It is keen that employers and complainants receive expert independent advice for the resolution of any complaint – especially those which have been unable to be resolved locally.
When local procedures require a second opinion the consultancy service will put you in touch with a suitably experienced occupational therapist who will provide an independent review and assessment of the case.
Costs are agreed prior to the work commencing and a contract is agreed between the organisation and the Consultancy Service.
Effective recruitment
Recruiting staff can be time consuming and costly. Having experts on hand, the consultancy service can:
- Write the job description and person specification
- Provide advice on advertising
- Help with short listing
- Provide an external assessor for the interview panel
Clients can choose all or part of this service, depending on their requirements.
For more information contact:
Karin Jasinska
COT Consultancy Service Manager
College of Occupational Therapists
106-114 Borough High Street
London SE1 1LB
T: 020 7450 2342
E: Karin.Jasinska@cot.co.uk
