Paediatric Orthopaedic Occupational Therapist
Job Title: Band 6 Paediatric Orthopaedic Occupational Therapist
Trust: Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Ward: Paediatric Therapies
Shift Patterns: Monday- Friday 8:30-4:30pm flexible
Why might this job interest you?
You will work with people with physical, mental health, or social disabilities to help them do everyday activities. You will spend time with individuals to find out what they do in their day-to-day life and help them find ways to overcome challenges.
What you can add:
* To undertake the comprehensive assessment of children including those with complex presentations.
* Supervision to junior Occupational Therapy staff, assistants, and students.
Main Duties of the Job
Job Summary:
To provide specialist Occupational Therapy assessment, treatment, management, and evaluation for children and young people with complex orthopaedic and spinal needs. To provide input to in-patients undergoing orthopaedic and spinal surgery on the hospital wards and to provide assessment and input at the multi-professional pre-operative assessment clinics. The post involves working across two different sites, the Oxford Children's Hospital and the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre.
What you'll need:
* Diploma or Degree in Occupational Therapy
* HCPC Registration
* Undergraduate/Postgraduate Occupational Therapy NHS clinical experience
* Experience working in an acute NHS setting
* Evidence of working within Paediatric services
* Experience of complex discharge planning
* 2-year postgraduate experience
About Us
Here at NHS Professionals, we run England's largest NHS staff bank and are experts at putting people in places to care. Every year we help thousands of dedicated and highly skilled NHS workers enjoy better career opportunities, more flexible shifts, and a healthier work-life balance across our partnered Trusts.
Career Progression: Access to Learning & Development opportunities, so that you can take on new roles and challenges.
Work-life Balance: Flexible shifts, committed shifts, wellbeing resources, and built paid annual leave.
Opportunity & Access: Over 50 partner NHS Trusts to give you the flexibility of choice to work how and where you want.
Job Responsibilities
Clinical Responsibilities:
1. To be professional and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of own work, including the management of all patients in your care.
2. To work flexibly and be able to adjust to the constantly changing demands of the service.
3. To have a holistic understanding of patient and family dynamics, the patient's condition, and its impact on function.
4. To ensure a high standard of clinical care for the children under your management at all times and support more junior staff to do likewise.
5. To use clinical reasoning skills in developing individual care plans that may include a treatment programme of therapeutic intervention as well as education and advice to parents, carers, school staff, multi-disciplinary and multi-agency professionals.
6. To undertake the comprehensive assessment of children including those with complex presentations using investigative and analytical skills to formulate individualised management and treatment plans.
7. To accept clinical and managerial responsibility for a designated caseload of children and to organise this effectively and efficiently with regards to clinical priorities, available resources, and use of time in order to facilitate safe, timely discharge.
8. To assess for and order equipment for short-term use to facilitate discharge; to advise regarding its safe use and to justify to manager provision of high-value adaptive equipment. To also assess and advise on long-term equipment needs and liaise with external agencies as required.
9. To formulate, evaluate and progress specialised treatment programmes and recommend the best course of intervention for the children, setting realistic goals jointly agreed with all parties concerned.
10. To be responsible for equipment used in carrying out occupational therapy duties and to adhere to departmental policy including competence to use equipment and to ensure the safe use of equipment by yourself and others through teaching, training, and supervision of practice.
11. To work with other therapists and agencies to ensure the safe physical management/handling of children. This will include the use of risk assessments and highly developed manual handling techniques.
12. To work within Trust and Royal College of Occupational Therapy's professional, operational, and clinical guidelines and have a working knowledge of national and local standards for monitoring own quality of practice.
13. To evaluate emergency situations and act accordingly working within procedures and protocols laid down by the service and the Trust.
14. To accept personal responsibility for the actions and quality of own work and those staff whose responsibility is delegated to you.
15. To treat as confidential all information obtained during the course of duties undertaken.
16. To demonstrate an ability to deal effectively with sensitive and contentious information, particularly with respect to difficult social situations and child protection issues.
17. To maintain and develop current knowledge of evidence-based practice, developing specialist knowledge and integrating theory into practice.
18. To continually undertake the measurement and evaluation of your work in light of current and developing protocols, standards, evidence-based research, audit, and outcome measures.
Communication & Professionalism:
1. To communicate and discuss complex information with all members of the multi-disciplinary team and to attend multi-agency meetings.
2. To effectively communicate assessment findings and treatment/intervention plans to service users and external agencies. This may occasionally include issues regarding child protection.
3. To demonstrate the ability to evaluate and modify own communication style suitable for differing situations and the needs of the individual, including listening, observing, and interpreting.
4. To provide advice, teaching, and instruction to relatives, carers, and other professionals to promote understanding of the aims of occupational therapy.
5. To liaise and effectively communicate through verbal and written form with community agencies e.g. community therapists, schools, social services, equipment providers to ensure safe and timely discharge.
6. To maintain accurate, comprehensive, and up-to-date patient records according to professional (RCOT and HCPC) and Trust standards.
7. To work within relevant Professional Standards of Practice of the Royal College of Occupational Therapy (RCOT) and adhering to Trust policies and procedures.
Planning and Organisational Skills:
1. To independently prioritise own caseload, balancing other occupational therapy-related and professional demands and ensure that these priorities remain in accordance with those of the service as a whole.
2. To attend and participate in the Trust mandatory training, including child protection and departmental in-service training.
3. To participate in appropriate Clinical Governance activities such as risk assessments, incident reporting, etc.
4. To undertake risk assessments on a daily basis, e.g. work space, equipment, patients, and self, using judgment skills to make the necessary adjustments in line with health and safety regulations.
5. To carry a bleep and respond to calls and requests when based in the hospital in a timely and effective manner.
Service and Personal Development:
1. To work within relevant professional standards of practice (RCOT) adhering to Trust procedures.
2. To participate in the development of the therapy service.
3. To manage and undertake audit, benchmarking, and research into specific areas of clinical practice and service delivery using a range of methodologies.
4. To actively participate in the fieldwork education and training of OT students to graduate level.
5. To assist in the supervision, teaching, and appraisal of junior staff and assistants.
6. To actively participate in continuing professional development to further own learning and personal development, including regular supervision, peer review, and annual appraisal.
7. To participate actively in sharing and receiving in-service training and development, to ensure sharing of learning, skills, knowledge, and expertise and promote continuous professional development.
8. To gain further knowledge by attending external courses identified at appraisal and demonstrate reflection on and use of that new knowledge in your work.
9. To be responsible for complying with your agreed objectives and personal development plan while maintaining own competency to practice through CPD activities.
10. To record continuing professional development in own portfolio, linked to the annual appraisal and personal development plan.
11. To actively seek peer and clinical support by participating in national clinical and special interest groups in order to keep up-to-date with professional information.
12. To contribute towards service reviews, audit, research, and development within the children's therapy service.
Information and Resource Management:
1. To make proposals for securing funding for equipment, or study days.
2. To be aware of and abide by the criteria for provision of equipment including financial limits and referring onto other organisations as necessary.
3. To be competent using the online equipment ordering system to facilitate patient discharge.
4. To ensure all equipment is used appropriately and safely, according to RCOT service guidelines.
5. To take responsibility for the maintenance of the department's equipment and information files.
6. To compile, record, and collate accurate statistics for treatment interventions in a timely manner.
7. To maintain patient records and statistics in line with Trust Standards and the Department Policy and the Data Protection Act.
8. To maintain up-to-date records of all leave (annual, sick, professional, study) and to take responsibility for the reporting of absence.
9. To use the Trust intranet, EPR systems, PAS, and databases and assist in training of other staff on how to use it.
10. To be able to use e-mail for communications across the sites, and to use the Therapy IT system for sharing/using information.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential:
* Diploma or Degree in Occupational Therapy
* State Registration HCPC
Experience
Essential:
* Undergraduate/Postgraduate Occupational Therapy NHS clinical experience
* Experience working in an acute NHS setting
* Evidence of working within Paediatric services
* Experience of complex discharge planning
* 2-year postgraduate experience
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer Details
Employer Name: NHS Professionals Limited
Address:
Oxford Children’s Hospital
Headley Way
Oxford
OX3 9DU
Employer's Website
https://www.nhsprofessionals.nhs.uk/
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