University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
This is your opportunity to join dynamic and evolving therapy teams at Heartlands, Good Hope and Solihull Hospitals; part of UHB.
Develop your clinical and interdisciplinary team working skills and support your career development. We have an exciting Band 6 / Band 5-6 progression rotation to support your learning in a variety of clinical areas including Paediatrics, Critical Care, Neuro, Macmillan, HCOP, Medicals, ED, Short Stay Therapy, Solihull IMC, T&O and Respiratory. Alongside a new initiative role, the Home First rotation is a new OT rotation to enable a Band 5 Occupational Therapist to establish skills in functional assessments and clinical decision-making to support discharge planning and the Home First strategy.
Ideal if you are an experienced Band 5 or a Band 6 looking for new opportunities; alternatively, we welcome those wishing to consider our innovative Band 5-6 progression post where you will have support and training to develop to a Band 6.
Are you a dynamic, innovative, and highly motivated HCPC registered Occupational Therapist with experience in a broad range of therapy teams/clinical areas? You will be an excellent team worker with knowledge across a range of occupational therapy disciplines. This experience could be invaluable for your career progression to Band 7 roles. You will be working within a friendly supportive environment where we are committed to continued professional and career development of all staff.
Main duties of the job
To provide therapeutic assessment, management, and treatment of patients in a variety of specialties within the Acute hospital and community setting; focusing interventions on a wide variety of clinical cases, applying Occupational Therapy knowledge and the OT process. There will be a strong focus on facilitating discharges home, or to other care pathways, and supporting patients in the outpatient community setting.
You should possess excellent communication, prioritisation, and organisational skills, and have experience in working in a multidisciplinary team. Undertake all aspects of clinical duties as an autonomous practitioner and maintain associated records. Furthermore, assist with supervision, education, and coordination of generic Therapy Support Workers and Junior therapists.
You should be willing to participate in seven-day working.
In return, you will gain excellent clinical and leadership experience. You will also develop organisational skills and service development experience.
About us
We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this.
Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment to offering flexible working where we can; providing a wide variety of training and development opportunities to support their personal and career development objectives.
UHB is committed to ensuring that our staff are treated fairly and feel that they belong, by creating a kind and inclusive environment. This is about equity of opportunity; removing all barriers, including discrimination and ensuring each individual member of staff reaches their true potential, achieves their ambitions, and thrives in their work. This is more than words. We are taking action. Our commitment to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation where every voice is heard, driven by our diverse and active staff networks, and at Board level by the Fairness Taskforce led by our CEO. We nurture a culture which empowers staff to challenge discriminatory behaviours and to enable people to bring their 'whole self' to a kinder, more connected, and bold place to work.
University Hospitals Birmingham is a Smoke-Free premises hospital.
Job responsibilities
For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see the attached Job Description.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Degree or diploma in Occupational Therapy
* Registered with HPC
* Evidence of CPD including recent postgraduate training relevant to clinical specialty
* Evidence of leadership training
* Good standard of general education including GCSE English and maths grade C or above
* Fieldwork Educator's certificate or attendance at Clinical Educators Course
Experience
* Demonstrates clinical experience enabling the post holder to manage a caseload of patients with complex needs in this specialty. This would usually be approximately 12 months and will include experience in discharge planning.
* A specialist knowledge across a range of OT treatments, routine and non-routine, requiring expertise within the field of occupational therapy.
* An ability to cope with a range of complex options, find solutions, analyze, compare, and decide on the appropriate course of action.
* Understanding of current legislation and application to OT.
* Experience of supporting students and more junior therapy staff.
* An understanding of discharge routes in the community.
Additional Criteria
* An ability to cope with moving/manoeuvring patients/equipment on a daily basis.
* An ability to frequently concentrate on patient assessments and treatments.
* An ability to cope with occasional exposure to distressing/emotional situations.
* Demonstrate an interest in developing expertise within the relevant team.
* Able to contribute to weekend service.
* Ability to work varied shift patterns commensurate to service area.
* Desirable: Able to drive with a maximum of 3 points on driving licence.
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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