B7 Team Lead/Occupational Therapist (Community) 37.5 or 30 hours considered, based at Garswood Clinic, St Helens
The Cheshire and Merseyside Rehabilitation Network (CMRN) is a unique collaborative integrated pathway delivered in a hub, spoke and community model providing specialist rehabilitation to patients who have suffered traumatic injury or illness dependent on need and not diagnosis.
We require a suitably skilled and experienced Occupational Therapist to uptake the role of Team Leader for our St Helens and Knowsley Community Specialist Rehabilitation Team, which provides specialist inter-disciplinary rehabilitation to patients with highly complex needs. As part of our wider community service, you will also need to work in close collaboration with our other community team which covers Liverpool and Sefton.
Main duties of the job
As an established community rehabilitation specialist OT, you will oversee and coordinate the team's workload, ensuring effective overall case-load management and patient flow. Adopting a flexible and adaptable approach, you will manage a clinical case-load, in addition to some team lead duties.
You will work autonomously, but will be supported by the team and wider service. Clinical, professional and leadership development opportunities are available via the wider service and from the wider network and organization.
Job responsibilities
Please see the job description and person specification document for detailed information about the job description for this vacancy.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Occupational Therapy/Physiotherapy Degree or equivalent relevant professional qualification
* HCPC Registration
* MSc in relevant field or working towards
* First Line Management Certificate or other relevant leadership qualification
Knowledge and Experience
* Demonstrable post-graduate experience in complex rehabilitation at specialist level including experience of neuro-rehabilitation or trauma
* Previous extensive experience of providing rehabilitation to patients with neurological and/or multiple conditions within own professional sphere of practice
* Proven clinical knowledge and experience working in a community complex rehabilitation setting and ability to demonstrate a strong working knowledge of roles of other inter-disciplinary members
* Evidenced leadership skills and abilities
* Ability to provide appropriate representation for other professional groups within team, due to development of holistic skills and understanding of other team members roles
* Ability to demonstrate effective inter-disciplinary working within an inter-disciplinary rehabilitation type setting
* Evidence of leading and implementing change
* Substantial clinical leadership experience
* Experience of leading a complex rehabilitation type team
* Experience of leading a community based specialist rehabilitation team
* Experience of working in an early supported discharge team
* Experience of managing and interpreting data
Skills and Attributes
* Specialist level skills within own profession in complex/specialist rehabilitation
* Able to communicate in an effective and persuasive manner at all times even under pressure
* Excellent written and oral communication and presentational skills, with the ability to motivate and persuade both staff and patients and effectively manage conflict
* Excellent organisational skills and ability to manage and flex between different duties, both clinical and non-clinical
* Flexible approach to work ensuring minimum levels of service provision are maintained
* Ability to manage competing demands and ability to work effectively under pressure
* Able to develop reports, protocols and policies
* Evidence based in rehabilitation and experience of reflective practice
* Experience of implementing clinical audit and research practices relevant to rehabilitation
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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