B7 Senior Occupational Therapist - Specialist Rehabilitation Team Lead
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
This is an exciting opportunity to join the Specialist Rehabilitation service at QEHB, delivering highly skilled, evidence-based quality care to a complex patient group. There is the opportunity to participate in service development, using evidence and guidelines to influence service delivery.
Being a Centre of Excellence, Major Trauma Centre, Neurosurgery Centre and Transplant Centre, with a large Critical Care, the Specialist Rehabilitation service at the QEHB delivers a unique service, providing specialist intervention to a wide variety of conditions and presentations. This is an excellent opportunity to work collaboratively within a wider MDT, support with teaching and peer education, whilst continuing to develop your own skills.
This post comes with the support of our team and managers. This is extended by support from our School of Nursing, AHPs and Midwifery. The school offers exciting opportunities for career growth and development, and our focus is on providing a supportive environment as part of continuing professional development. We want you to feel a sense of belonging, community, commitment and support whilst working at UHB.
Main duties of the job
You will work alongside an existing Team Lead to deliver clinical leadership, using your supervision and appraisal skills, supporting in liaison with the Clinical Lead for Occupational Therapy and other Team Leads.
You will provide skilled assessment and comprehensive treatment sessions with complex rehabilitation patients across the QEHB site.
You will work collaboratively with the Specialist Rehabilitation Pathway Coordinator & wider team to support Occupational Therapy input with this patient cohort. You will work with the team to guide recovery through the inpatient phase and support in the identification of appropriate and considered discharge planning.
You will manage a complex caseload of varying conditions requiring a multi-skilled approach, demonstrating specialist expertise and knowledge within the clinical area and supporting staff as required.
You will have specific skills in specialist seating & positioning, with a broad understanding of the cognitive impact to patients, applying specialist assessment skills as required. Training and development opportunities will be available.
About us
We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this.
Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to:
* Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can;
* Offering our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives.
UHB is committed to ensuring that our staff are treated fairly and feel that they belong, by creating a kind and inclusive environment. This is about equity of opportunity; removing all barriers, including discrimination and ensuring each individual member of staff reach their true potential, achieve their ambitions and thrive in their work. This is more than words. We are taking action. Our commitment to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation where every voice is heard, driven by our diverse and active staff networks, and at Board level by the Fairness Taskforce led by our CEO. We nurture a culture which empowers staff to challenge discriminatory behaviours and to enable people to bring their 'whole self' to a kinder, more connected and bold place to work.
University Hospitals Birmingham is a Smoke-Free premises hospital.
Job responsibilities
*Please Note: For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*
Person Specification
Qualifications
* BSc in OT/ Dip COT
* HCPC registration
* Evidence of CPD including recent post graduate training relevant to clinical speciality.
* Evidence of leadership training.
* Attendance at Clinical Educators Course
Experience
* Demonstrates comprehensive clinical experience enabling the post holder to manage a caseload of patients with complex needs in this speciality.
* Significant experience of working in an acute hospital setting at band 6 or above within the relevant clinical area.
* Experience of team/service development.
* Experience of supporting and supervision of junior therapists, student therapists and assistants.
* A specialist knowledge across a range of therapy practices, routine and non-routine, requiring expertise within the field of therapy.
* Good understanding of working in an acute Trust.
* Understanding of current legislation and application to Occupational Therapy.
* Experience of producing reports / data analysis
Additional Criteria
* Demonstrate enthusiasm for the specialist area.
* Demonstrate a professional attitude.
* An ability to cope with moving/manoeuvring patients/equipment on a daily basis.
* An ability to frequently concentrate on patient assessments and treatments.
* An ability to cope with occasional exposure to distressing/emotional situations.
* Demonstrate an interest in developing expertise within the clinical areas.
* Car Driver
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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