Airedale NHS Foundation Trust
About
Airedale Hospital was opened in 1970 by Prince Charles and is an award winning hospital providing high quality, personalised, acute, elective and specialist care for a population of over 200,000 people from a widespread area covering 700 square miles within Yorkshire and Lancashire - stretching as far as the Yorkshire Dales and the National Park in North Yorkshire, reaching areas of North Bradford and Guiseley in West Yorkshire and extending into Colne and Pendle in the East of Lancashire.
* They employ 2,900 staff and have 400 committed volunteers
* In a year they treat 25,000 inpatients, 26,000 non-elective patients and 150,000 outpatients
* Our Accident and Emergency Department sees and treats over 51,000 patients every year
* Around 2,600 babies are born each year at the hospital
They provide services from their main hospital site and at other locations across the community, in sites owned by their Primary Care Trusts. The PCTs commission health services from them for the patients within their GP practices and the three main PCT’s referring patients to us are – NHS Bradford and Airedale, NHS North Yorkshire and York and NHS East Lancashire.
Key details
Location
Site: The Oaks Resource Centre
Address: Oakworth Road
Town: Keighley
Postcode: BD21 1BQ
Major / Minor Region: West Yorkshire
Contract type & working pattern
Contract: Permanent
Hours: 37.5 hours per week
* Full time
* Part time
Salary
Salary: £29,970 - £44,962 pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Grade: (NHS AfC: Band 6)
Specialty
Main area: Occupational Therapist
Be part of our future landscape
At Airedale, we are committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion. We actively encourage applications irrespective of people’s age, lived experience of living with a disability or long-term conditions, gender, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.
Increasing our diversity and supporting our organisation to be more inclusive is a key priority here at Airedale and our teams are at the centre of how we work towards this.
We appreciate all people may have diverse and individual needs and we pride ourselves on supporting all people to thrive and flourish at work. We have frameworks in place that support reasonable adjustments and flexible working for colleagues throughout their working lives which starts at recruitment.
These are exciting times for Airedale. We have the once-in-a-career opportunity to be involved in the planning and building of a completely new hospital here on our Steeton site by 2030. By joining us now you’ll be a key part of our journey over the next few years, with the chance to input into a state-of-the-art, modern healthcare facility that will deliver care to our communities for decades to come. We are also on the journey to a new electronic patient record, part of our wider ambition for our digital future – a future that builds on our significant telemedicine and digital care success. Ultimately, what makes Airedale special is our people. Not just our staff, but our volunteers, patients, visitors, and wider population who make up the Airedale family. This is a Trust that sits at the heart of our community, and our communities are very proud of their Trust.
Job overview
A very exciting opportunity has arisen in our Integrated Community Rehab Team and we are looking for motivated, enthusiastic and skilled Occupational therapists to join our team. The integrated team is based at a number of different sites across Airedale NHS Foundation Trust footprint.
Work is varied and includes working out of a range of Health and social care bases to support people at home, as well as defined Rehabilitation Beds.
As a band 6 Occupational therapist, this post would provide you with the opportunity to consolidate and develop your knowledge and skills while gaining valuable experience in a variety of community settings. The post would allow you to develop your clinical, leadership and managerial skills, plus be involved in innovative audit and service development projects within the team. The post would also provide opportunities to supervise and develop junior Occupational therapists and students in addition to therapy assistants.
The post holder will be required to support the planning and implementation of a range of therapeutic activities and treatments and assist/deputise for the team leader as required.
We may consider a Band 5 development post for a candidate with aligned skills, knowledge and experience.
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* To undertake a supporting role to the Team Leader; managing, planning, coordinating, delivering and evaluating the therapy services provided to Community Therapy patient.
* To provide assessment, treatment and rehabilitation in the home, facilitating safe and timely hospital discharges when required.
* To act as a source of expertise and provide an advisory service to other ANHSFT therapists and members of the MDT in the management of Community Rehab patients.
* To lead in the advanced assessment and treatment of patients within the speciality who may have complex and chronic presentations, and determine clinical diagnosis and any therapy treatment indicated, and to maintain records as an autonomous practitioner.
* To provide expert training and education for all grades of staff and other health professionals in the therapeutic management of community therapy patients.
* To deputise for the Team Leader when requested.
* Provide effective student training and development.
Working for our organisation
We are delighted to offer a wide range of benefits to employees including:
* Cycle to Work
* Travel Scheme
* Childcare Vouchers with Salary Sacrifice
* Onsite Nursery
* Buying and Selling Annual Leave
* Car Leasing
* Employee Assistance Programme
* Employee Health and Wellbeing
* Extensive Reward Scheme
* Counselling Service
* Financial packages including Vivup and Wagestream
* Staff Networks, Enable, Rainbow, Gender, Race Equality Ecoaware & Admin Network.
Our values:
* Committed to Quality of Care
* Compassion
* Working together for patients
* Improving Lives
* Everyone Counts
* Respect and Dignity
Got questions before you apply, please contact the recruiting manager to find out more.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
* To be professionally and legally accountable for all aspects of own work, including the management of patients allocated. To work within the standards and guidelines of the Trust, HCPC and RCOT code of ethics.
* To be familiar with and work in accordance with National Standards and guidelines.
* To plan, organise and prioritise own and team workloads where required to meet service demands and ensure seamless service provision.
* To carry out specialist assessments and complex clinical interventions which support people in their own home, supporting Acute Therapy teams in the planning of complex discharges.
* To have in depth knowledge and experience of wide variety of clinical case presentations, and act as specialist clinician related to Community Rehabilitation.
* Make relevant recommendations, plan and implement specialist occupational therapy interventions/care packages in partnership with the service user, with the carer as necessary and in consultation with colleagues.
* Monitor and evaluate the outcome of specialist interventions in partnership with the service user if possible, with the carer if necessary and in consultation with colleagues.
* Develop and maintain relationships with other professionals and external agencies relevant to community rehabilitation.
* To represent the Community Rehab team at Multi-disciplinary team meetings e.g. governance meetings.
* To manage clinical risk within own client caseload, and complete risk assessments where complex cases indicate a need.
* To work within RCOT and Trust clinical guidelines to maintain knowledge of local and national standards and benchmark own practice.
* To complete clinical audit/service development review to ensure service standards are maintained.
* To reflect on own clinical performance formally and informally and identify learning/development needs and/or need for additional evidence/training.
We are happy to discuss flexible working opportunities.
NOTE: This vacancy may close before the advertised closing date if sufficient suitable applications are received.
If you are offered a position which requires you to undertake a Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) check, Airedale NHS Foundation Trust will administer the DBS check on your behalf and will recover the cost (Enhanced £54.40, Standard or Basic £26.40) from your first full months salary. This is a condition of your employment.
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You are encouraged to participate in the DBS Update Service and pay the £16 cost per year.
Applicant requirements
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.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
* Degree or equivalent pre-registration award in Occupational Therapy
* State registrations with the Health Care Professions Council
* Completion of course in Professional Practice education
Desirable criteria
* Member of relevant Professional special interest groups/organisations
* Leadership courses
* Successful completion of a professionally validated specialist courses
Experience
Essential criteria
* Relevant and recent experience working at band 5 level in multiple specialities ideally within Rehabilitation settings, acute care, care of older and community settings.
* Experience of multidisciplinary team working and working collaboratively with other professions and agencies including statutory, private, and voluntary sector services
* Experience of guideline development or audit.
* Experience of clinical supervision both as supervisee and supervisor
* Recent experience of student training.
Desirable criteria
* Experience of working at band 6 level in a community setting
* Worked within an integrated team
* Experience of taking part in or leading on Projects/service improvements
* Experience in leading an audit or research project
Further details / informal visits contact
Name: Louise Maeer-Harris or Eleanor BInns
Job title: Community Rehab Team Leaders
Email address: [email protected]
Telephone number: 01535 295635
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