Clinical Specialist Occupational Therapist
Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
We are thrilled to announce that with the launch of our newly built integrated front door here at the Great Western Hospital, we are able to offer an experienced Occupational Therapist the opportunity to join our team!
You will work across our fast-paced Emergency Department and assessment wards, and benefit from the unique chance to shape and redesign how we deliver our vital services to our patients.
You will be working with a large supportive team of Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists and Assistants to assess patients and facilitate rapid discharges. We work as an integrated team and feel valued by our MDT colleagues as making a difference.
Main Duties of the Job
The specialist therapy post within the Front Door service/team requires you to autonomously manage a complex caseload of varied and complex needs across the emergency department and short stay/assessment wards. Your role as a specialist therapist will be to facilitate timely and safe discharges to meet government set targets (admission avoidance) or establish appropriate client-centered pathways to prevent "stranded patients" using statutory and non-statutory agencies.
Job Responsibilities
* Specialist clinical practice, knowledge, skills, and experience of frailty and complex care and discharge planning.
* To provide effective support to team leads in the delivery of the day-to-day organization of the Front Door team prioritizing workloads, responding to changing hospital demands, ensuring an accessible, responsive, and flexible service.
* To ensure the achievement of National, local, and Trust performance indicators, to deliver a high-quality, effective service, where patient experience and safety is central.
* Leading by example and providing knowledgeable, responsive advice to support complex care.
* To be responsible for the issuing, ordering, and risk assessment of equipment.
* Lead on research, clinical audits, and evidence-based service pilots/projects to support the development of evidence-based practice in collaboration with the professional lead and the clinical team lead.
Person Specification
Education
* HCPC registered
* Qualified to Master's Degree level in Physiotherapy or Occupational Therapy or equivalent training and experience
* Willingness to undertake further training i.e. ACP, prescribing, frailty or further medical upskilling, leadership
* Leadership training courses
* FLAP
* RCOT/CSP membership
Experience
* Specialist extensive clinical experience in complex discharge planning, admission avoidance, and frailty within the NHS
* Evidence of Community or Social Care Experience
* Emergency Care Experience
* Ability to assess and identify appropriate equipment to facilitate safe discharges
* Working within a multi-professional team and sharing assessment where appropriate
* Service review and change management
* Prescriber Member of a relevant special interest group - such as emergency care network
Knowledge
* Good IT skills, able to use Microsoft programs such as Word and Excel
* Able to write reports
* Ability to delegate, support, motivate, and supervise
* Sound clinical reasoning skills to allow for appropriate treatment selection and discharge planning.
* Ability to prepare and deliver presentations to a group of people
* Ability to network across organizations
* Ability to use cognitive assessments to support patient and adapted discharge planning to meet patient needs
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.
Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
£46,148 to £52,809 a year per annum pro rata
Contract
Permanent
Working Pattern
Full-time, Part-time, Job share, Flexible working
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