Advanced Occupational Therapist - Stroke, Neurology and Rehab
NHS AfC: Band 7
Main area: Stroke and Neurology
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 7
Contract: Fixed term: 12 months (Weekend working as per rota)
Hours:
* Full time
* Part time
* Flexible working
37.5 hours per week (Minimum part-time hours considered 0.8wte)
Job ref: 381-CT-6781630-A
Site: SWB NHS Trust Rowley Regis Hospital
Town: Sandwell/Birmingham
Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 06/01/2025 23:59
Sandwell & West Birmingham NHS Trust is a friendly, integrated healthcare provider focused on improving the life chances and health outcomes of our diverse population.
We have three strategic objectives:
1. People: To cultivate and sustain happy, productive and engaged staff;
2. Patients: To be good or outstanding at everything we do;
3. Population: To work seamlessly with partners to improve lives;
Our next milestone is opening the Midland Metropolitan University Hospital (MMUH), a once in a career opportunity to shape care transformation within and beyond the hospital walls.
Developing and caring for our People is fundamental. We were one of the first Trusts to provide the Real Living Wage, as well as a Live and Work scheme to support people at risk of homelessness into paid work and training. We offer a range of staff benefits, health & wellbeing support and will help you to bring your ambition to life through our bespoke training and development programmes. As “People” is one of our three strategic objectives, we make a continued commitment to prioritise support for all our colleagues.
Healthcare services have a significant impact on the environment. We are committed to embedding sustainable practices. We expect all colleagues to support the delivery of our Green Strategic Plan and to drive positive changes in their department.
Job overview
An exciting new opportunity has arisen for a passionate, enthusiastic and experienced Occupational Therapist to join our leadership team to cover a period of maternity leave.
As part of your role, you will be responsible for an area of the in-patient stroke service alongside your Physiotherapy and SLT colleagues. You will manage your own caseload working without supervision.
Clinical performance review takes the form of regular training, support, clinical supervision, and peer review.
Undertake all aspects of clinical duties as an autonomous practitioner.
Provide expertise within rehabilitative and neurological OT to other therapists and multi-disciplinary colleagues, patients, and carers through specialist advice and education.
Provide clinical leadership to band 6 & 5 occupational therapists including bank or agency staff and therapy support workers within the specialty through supervision, assessment, education, and development.
Lead the supervision and assessment of undergraduate/post-graduate occupational therapy students within your clinical area as required, ensuring the standard of practice and teaching meets the standards set by a degree/higher degree level.
Lead evidence-based audit and research projects to further occupational therapy practice, making and acting upon recommendations for changes in practice to improve service delivery including the formulation and implementation of occupational therapy service protocols.
Deputise for therapy service leads as required.
Main duties of the job
Be professionally and legally accountable for all aspects of your work, including the management of patients in your care.
Use highly developed specialist knowledge, skills, and training in the occupational therapy management of rehabilitation and neurology patients with acute and chronic conditions including patients in an acute, clinic, and community setting.
Be responsible for the delivery of the occupational therapy service to the area, coordinating, allocating, and organizing the work of junior and assistant staff to meet service priorities on a daily basis and ensure a high standard of clinical care.
Be responsible for the deployment, line management, supervision, and coordination of staff in the specialty. This includes discussing contentious issues with staff and the daily management of informal disciplinary matters, conflict, and disputes.
Undertake highly developed specialist assessments of patients including those with diverse or complex presentations/multiple-pathologies using investigative, analytical, clinical reasoning, and assessment skills to accurately diagnose the therapeutic needs of patients. This includes using effective listening skills to receive highly complex and sensitive information from patients/carers.
Formulate comprehensive individual treatment programmes using highly developed specialist skills in assessment, analysis, and clinical reasoning, and knowledge of a range of evidence-based treatment options.
Working for our organisation
Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust (SWBT) is an integrated care organisation with a budget of approximately £600 million and over 7,000 staff. Diversity and social care is at the core of what we do as the Trust provides Community and Acute Services to over half a million people in an urban centre that demands massive regeneration and has substantial premature mortality.
Our new acute hospital, the Midland Metropolitan University Hospital (MMUH), opens in 2024 and will provide care to our local population from first-class, purpose-built premises. As a result, the base of this role may change to MMUH from 2024 (or beyond). If this is applicable to your role, you will be informed during the recruitment process and continuing your application with this understanding. The development of the new hospital will play an important role in the regeneration of the wider area and in improving the lives of local people and reducing health inequalities.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached job description and personal specification.
Interested applicants are encouraged to make contact with us to arrange an opportunity to discuss the role if able to arrange a visit to view the service.
Person specification
Experience
* Sufficient postgraduate experience to demonstrate ability to meet the personal specification and fulfil the job description, including experience at band 6 level within the specialist field of Stroke and Neurology.
* Experience of working in both community and acute environments.
* Attend a minimum of x1 BBTA weekend module.
* Attended full BBTA 3-week course.
* Involvement in audit and research.
* Attended Leadership Course.
Qualifications
* BSc Occupational Therapy.
* HCPC Registration.
* Membership of appropriate special interest group.
As a major employer in the Black Country and West Birmingham region, we are committed to supporting all employees to achieve a healthy work-life balance. We want the Black Country and West Birmingham region to be the best place to work and as such will consider all requests to work flexibly taking into account personal and individual circumstances alongside the needs of the service. We encourage all prospective applicants to discuss their individual circumstances with the Recruiting Manager as part of the onboarding process.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Name: Sian Randerson
Job title: Clinical Specialist for Stroke and Neurology
Email address: sian.randerson@nhs.net
Telephone number: 07870385509
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