University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
Are you a B5 looking for progression or a B6 looking for a change in your career? Look no further. Here is your opportunity to join a friendly, dynamic, and ever-evolving therapy team at Good Hope Hospital, part of UHB. During this 6-month fixed-term contract, you will be working as part of the therapy team and the wider Multidisciplinary Team supporting patients to return home as soon as possible by providing timely and regular therapy interventions, maximizing their chances of staying at home. You will be an excellent team worker with knowledge across a range of occupational therapy treatments. Internal applicants will be given a secondment opportunity for the duration.
In return, we offer you the opportunity to develop your clinical and interdisciplinary team working skills, supporting your career development with an individual personal development plan closely linked to our maximizing potential framework.
We provide a range of well-being support both as a Trust and as a Therapy Department. You will be working within a friendly, supportive environment where we are committed to the continued professional and career development of all staff.
Main duties of the job
To provide therapeutic assessment, management, and treatment of patients in a variety of wards within the hospital setting. Focusing interventions on a wide variety of clinical cases across the Acute Medical wards, applying Occupational Therapy knowledge and the OT process. There will be a strong focus on facilitating discharges home or to other care pathways and supporting patients into the outpatient community setting.
You should possess excellent communication, prioritization, and organizational skills; and have experience in working in a multidisciplinary team. Undertaking all aspects of clinical duties as an autonomous practitioner and maintaining associated records. Furthermore, assisting with supervision, education, and coordination of generic Therapy Assistants and Junior therapists.
You should be willing to participate in our seven-day working rota.
In return, you will gain excellent clinical and leadership experience. You will also develop organizational skills and service development experience.
About us
We are recognized as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognize 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 well-being of our staff, including a commitment to 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 reaches their true potential, achieves their ambitions, and thrives 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 organization 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 that empowers staff to challenge discriminatory behaviors 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 the attached Job Description*
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Degree or diploma in Occupational Therapy
* Registered with HCPC
* Evidence of CPD including recent postgraduate
* Training relevant to clinical specialty
* Evidence of leadership training
* Good standard of general education including GCSE
* English and maths grade C or above
Experience
* Demonstrates clinical experience enabling the post holder to manage a caseload of patients with complex needs in this specialty, having worked within this clinical area in recent times. This would need to include experience in discharge planning.
* A specialist knowledge across a range of OT treatments, routine and non-routine, requiring expertise within the field of occupational therapy
* An ability to cope with a range of complex options, find solutions, analyze, compare and decide on appropriate courses of action.
* Understanding of current legislation and application to OT
Additional Criteria
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills including an ability to provide and receive complex, sensitive, and contentious information
* An ability to communicate where there are barriers to understanding IT skills -- computer literate in email, Word & PowerPoint
* An ability to prioritize and organize own workload
* Demonstrate enthusiasm for specialty
* Demonstrate a professional attitude
* An ability to work as part of an inter-disciplinary team
* 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 relevant team
* Able to contribute to weekend service
* Ability to work varied shift patterns commensurate to service area
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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