Employer: Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Arrowe Park Hospital
Town: Wirral
Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 per annum pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 23/01/2025 23:59
Clinical Lead Occupational Therapist - Hand Team
Band 7
Job Overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Band 7 Hand OT to join the orthopaedic hand therapy team at WUTH.
You will be enthusiastic, inspiring, and innovative. You will become a key member of the long-established and successful hand therapy service at WUTH, managing a complex caseload of trauma, rheumatology, MSK, and orthopaedic patients. You will be part of a warm, friendly, and supportive hand therapy team of hand OTs and physiotherapists. You will primarily work in Arrowe Park and Clatterbridge hospitals in the physiotherapy outpatient department, orthopaedic listing clinics, and fracture clinics. You will liaise with other members of our multi-disciplinary team, including surgeons, nurses, orthotists, and administrative staff.
You will share responsibility for the running of the occupational therapy team with the other part-time Band 7 Hand OT, whilst liaising with the Clinical Specialist of the team.
You will be expected to participate in team in-service training, supervise junior staff and students, and attend regular meetings, including MDT liaison and journal clubs.
Main Duties of the Job
* To communicate effectively with staff, patients, carers and other agencies to co-ordinate care and to ensure effective and appropriate planning and delivery of treatment.
* To collect, analyse and deliver a range of more complex clinical information to staff groups, agencies, lay people etc for educational purposes, or service development.
* To be a resource to support staff with complex patients requiring a high level of decision making.
* To be professionally and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of your work including patient treatment, equipment use, resources and documentation.
* To provide specialist comprehensive assessment of patients, with complex presentations, requiring a range of specialist skills, including highly developed physical skills, analytical skills and cognitive analysis skills.
* To provide education and advice to own profession staff, other staff groups, agencies, patient groups, relatives and carers and the general public.
* To organise and undertake audit, patient surveys or research in order to analyse effectiveness of service, identify patient need and to plan for improving and developing services.
* To provide a good example of leadership, through effective team working, flexibility, enthusiasm and commitment to own speciality.
Person Specification
Qualifications, Specific Experience & Training
* Graduate Diploma or BSc Physiotherapy or equivalent qualification recognised by HCPC in Occupational Therapy, Dietetics or Speech & Language.
* HPCP Registration.
* At least 4 years post grad experience (including Experience as band 5 AHP to consolidate basic post-graduate skills & to develop more specialist skills followed by appropriate experience in a relevant area of work at band 6 (or equivalent) level.
* Demonstrate a high degree of expertise and competency in a wide range of skills which involves assessment and treatment underpinned by sound theoretical knowledge. Experience of highly complex caseload management. Experience of advising and guiding others within profession and other members of the MDT.
* Ability to work as an autonomous clinician, managing own case load, including complex patients, and time, using clinical reasoning and analytical skill to perform appropriate assessment, identify problems and appropriate treatment plan.
* To have the analytical ability to be able to review treatment/services, with evidence of taking part in audit.
* Demonstrate awareness of the roles of others in providing patient care and ability to work as an effective team member.
* Ability to identify learning needs and develop the skills of staff and students in speciality. This includes mentorship, appraisal, supervision and training.
* Member of Chartered Society of Physiotherapy, British Dietetic Association, Royal College of Occupational Therapy, Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists or similar.
* Active collection of relevant CPD in portfolio.
* Evidence of significant and relevant post registration training and relevant evidence in CPD portfolio in order to prove development of specialist clinical skills and development of highly developed specialist knowledge. Profession specific training in specialist area, recognised as equating to masters level, e.g MACP, Sensory Integration training, Bobath, PENG clinical update etc.
Knowledge and Skills
* Basic computer skills.
* Well developed theoretical knowledge underpinning physiotherapy practice.
* Good written and oral communication skills.
* Good analytical, problem solving and clinical reasoning skills.
* Knowledge and experience in hospital computer system.
* Ability to communicate within difficult circumstances and demonstrate empathetic approach to patient.
* Excellent communication skills (written and verbal), analytical, problem solving skills and clinical reasoning.
* Understanding of national issues and relating them to own clinical practice.
Personal Attributes
* Ability to be flexible and adaptable in order to support others and needs of the service.
* Ability to show initiative.
* Good organisational skills.
* Ability to organise own workload and administrative procedures.
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Name: Brian O'Hare
Job title: Advanced Practitioner Physiotherapist
Email address: brian.ohare1@nhs.net
Telephone number: 0151 482 7776
Additional information: Helen Giffin, Clinical Lead for Outpatient Therapies
Email: helen.giffin@nhs.net
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