Due to external funding, we have an exciting opportunity to offer a one-day Band 7 post working on the neonatal units here at The Leeds Children's Hospital. This would be the ideal post for an Occupational Therapist with neonatal experience.
The post sits within the Children's Occupational Therapy service, and the successful candidate will provide specialist input as part of an MDT for extremely premature infants who require ongoing monitoring whilst on our neonatal units (level 3 and level 2).
You will be joining an established MDT that has recently received extra funding across the MDT for additional posts. This mix of existing and newer staff will provide exciting opportunities for service development. There is excellent local and national peer support, and the OT team is committed to supporting continued professional development through appraisal, training, research, and audit.
Main duties of the job
Be responsible for the management of your own caseload on the neonatal units.
Provide highly specialist, functional goal-led intervention to high-risk infants and their parents on the neonatal units including: supporting infant and parental occupations, postural support, developmentally supportive care and identification of developmental concerns, education/training to parents/carers and ward staff, support with transition from hospital to home, assessment and provision of specialist equipment.
Participate in MDT meetings, including ward rounds, discharge planning, family integrated care meetings, and liaise with regional units as required.
Work closely with MDT colleagues to deliver patient/family-centered interventions.
Operational leadership of the service with existing Band 7.
Provide support, training, and supervision to junior staff, undergraduate students, and MDT.
Attend local and national peer support meetings/groups.
About us
Leeds Children's Hospital provides services to the region and city of Leeds.
THE LEEDS WAY VALUES
Our values are part of what make us different from other trusts; we see this as a strength, as well as a responsibility. They have been developed by our staff and set out what they see as important to how we work. Our five values are: Patient-centred, Collaborative, Fair, Accountable, and Empowered.
The Children's OT team works across Leeds Children's Hospital (Monday - Friday) covering both inpatient wards and outpatients. Services include Neurosciences, Oncology, Orthopaedics, General medicine, Cardiac, Neuromuscular, Neonates, Neurodevelopmental, Rheumatology, Chronic Pain, Musculoskeletal, and Long Covid.
We are a friendly and supportive team. Our aim is to always strive to provide the highest quality of care to our patients, and we are highly committed to supporting CPD and the wellbeing of staff.
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Job responsibilities
1. Job Purpose
To work within the Occupational Therapy Service, leading, coordinating, and developing effective intervention in a specialist area, in conjunction with the Head Occupational Therapist Clinical Area and colleagues.
To manage autonomously a clinical workload at a highly specialist level: assessing and treating patients and maintaining associated records.
To apply evidence-based knowledge of the specialist clinical area, acquired through in-depth experience and/or academic study to specialist postgraduate level or equivalent.
To provide Occupational Therapy assessment and intervention to patients with diverse, complex, and multiple pathological presentations.
To adopt a key role in clinical risk assessment and discharge planning.
To take responsibility for organizing and carrying out home assessments. Leading and coordinating discussions with patients and carers, health and social care professionals, and community agencies to plan and implement effective and safe hospital discharges.
To provide an evidence-based service to the specialist clinical area.
To provide a patient-focused service following the Occupational Therapy process (screen referrals, assess and plan treatment programmes, implement and evaluate treatment programmes, monitor and plan discharge) using Occupational Therapy core skills.
To represent the Occupational Therapy Service and act as a patient advocate in multi-disciplinary meetings, with external agencies such as Social Services, Housing, Intermediate Care Services.
To manage, supervise, and delegate to Occupational Therapists within the team.
To manage, supervise, and delegate to Occupational Therapy Support Staff.
To supervise and educate Occupational Therapy Students.
To act as a professional role model for other team members.
To assist with the general caseload of the team as service needs dictate.
To act as a highly specialist Occupational Therapy Resource for colleagues, carers, and patients.
To lead and participate in team and service developments including audit and research.
To be involved in multi-disciplinary coordination and development of services.
The trust acknowledges and supports the statements laid down by the Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct (College of Occupational Therapy). The post holder will be professionally accountable to the Health Professions Council and accountable contractually to their employer and to the law for their actions.
2. Job Dimensions
Clinical Responsibilities
The post holder will be responsible for the management of patients with highly complex health and social care needs. The post holder, as a highly specialised, autonomous practitioner, will address occupational therapy performance skills, social context, and activity demands in collaboration with patients, carers, and colleagues.
Clinical intervention may take place in a variety of settings including wards, therapy departments, clinics, people's homes, workplaces, community facilities, childcare, and educational establishments.
The work involves close liaison with the multi-disciplinary team and community-based health and social care providers.
Refer to Section 9 for specific details of responsibilities.
Team Responsibilities
1. To manage, supervise and support Occupational Therapists, Support Staff, and Students.
2. To deputise for the Head Occupational Therapist.
3. To represent Occupational Therapy on working parties and multi-agency meetings.
4. To act as a resource of clinical expertise and advice within the clinical specialty for colleagues, patients, and carers.
5. To be responsible for routine organisation and maintenance of the department/section.
6. To initiate, lead, and contribute to service development.
7. To support the team in meeting local and government targets.
8. To lead and participate in projects.
9. To lead and participate in in-service training.
10. To initiate, promote, and implement changes to policies, procedures, and practices within the clinical area as identified in the team plan.
11. To be responsible for financial and physical resources, for example, the use of equipment store systems such as Leeds Equipment Service, petty cash.
12. To be responsible for checking and cleaning equipment in line with Trust and service Health and Safety Policies.
Professional Responsibilities
1. To support Trust objectives and business plan.
2. To lead and promote Service objectives and business plan.
3. Specialist knowledge of Modernisation Agenda/Government Initiatives.
4. To ensure clinical governance, quality assurance, and professional standards are adhered to.
5. Membership of COT specialist section relevant to post.
6. Awareness of COT initiatives.
7. To initiate, promote, and lead changes to policies, procedures, and practice within the clinical specialty which may impact on other disciplines.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* HCPC registration
* Degree in Occupational Therapy / or equivalent
Experience
* Extensive post-graduate experience at a senior level.
* Experience in the clinical specialty and in a range of clinical areas.
* Change management.
* Involvement in establishing a new service.
Skills & behaviours
* Able to take responsibility for self and others.
* Able to take responsibility for local service delivery.
* Mature and adaptable.
* Advanced understanding of functional implications of illness and disability related to the specialist clinical area.
* Understanding and application of standardised assessments and treatment techniques associated with the specialist clinical area.
* Advanced problem-solving skills/clinical reasoning.
* Able to teach and motivate others.
* Able to work effectively in a stressful environment.
* Moving and handling of patients and equipment is a requirement of this post.
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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