Job summary
You will contribute to the overall service delivery model and team advancement within the Integrated Therapy service and help deliver paediatric Occupational Therapyin a variety of settings to include clinic, school, and patients own home across Wiltshire.
To be responsible for managing a complex clinical caseload of patients and to maintain own records as an autonomous practitioner and provide clinical and peer supervision of staff across the team and across professions where appropriate.
In this role you will alsobe responsible for ensuring the service provides a high quality, cost effective and evidence based clinical service to children and young people accessing the service and their families in collaboration with Professional leads, clinical managers and other team leaders.
Main duties of the job
Patient/client care
1. To communicate effectively with patients and carers to maximise functional potential and to ensure understanding of condition. Communication skills of motivation, explanation, empathy and gaining informed consent will be used with a wide variety of patients.
Operational and Administrative Responsibilities
2. You will be responsible and accountable for all aspects of own work, including the management of patients in your care.
Financial and physical resources
3. Beresponsible for ensuring the effective selection and use of all treatment resources available in the department.
Information and Reporting
4. Use evidence-based practice, audits and published research to inform practice.
5. Participate in audits/research projects and support the wider clinical governance programme.
About us
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UKs leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
Were committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. Were a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesnt happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and well need to close it earlier than the date weve shown here. If youre keen to join our team, wed love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
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Job description
Job responsibilities
As a Integrated Therapies Team Lead, Childrens Occupational Therapist, Band 7,youll be part of our valued team at Derby Court Trowbridge.
You will feel valued as a Integrated Therapies Team Lead, Childrens Occupational Therapist, Band 7 within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
6. £43,742- £50,056Band 7Salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
7. Free tea, coffee, and milk at your base location
8. Plentiful on site-parking
9. Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
10. Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover lifes emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
11. Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
12. Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our Outstanding learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
13. An open, just culture where youre encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
14. The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding good or outstanding ratings from the Care Quality Commission
Person Specification
General Requirements
Essential
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