Team Leader / Lead Specialist Occupational Therapist
South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust
We are looking to recruit a Team Leader / Lead Specialist Occupational Therapist for the inpatient Medical and Trauma & Orthopaedic/Surgical inpatient OT team at South Tyneside Hospital.
This is a challenging but rewarding role with the opportunity to develop your leadership skills and further enhance your specialist clinical skills with a varied and complex patient group. Further support and training will be available for leadership development to support your career progression.
The acute therapy teams work closely with our community partners as part of the hospital discharge planning process and this is a great opportunity to help shape future services as a lead specialist therapist.
Main duties of the job
The inpatient OT team is part of the Acute Occupational Therapy service which covers both Sunderland Royal Hospital and South Tyneside Hospital and sits within the Directorate of Therapy Services. The inpatient teams provide assessment and intervention for discharge from hospital and link in with the Transfer of Care Hub and our community partners.
As a Lead Specialist OT and Team Leader, you will hold your own caseload of hospital inpatients while supporting your team clinically with specialist advice and knowledge and will also support the team with first line operational management. You will need to be a good advocate for Occupational Therapy and have a desire to get the best from your team and help them develop.
The service works closely with both Sunderland and Northumbria Universities to provide undergraduate and post graduate pre-registration Occupational Therapy placements and you will be expected to support the future workforce through provision of student placements as well as providing learning opportunities for junior staff within the service.
Due to the need to visit patients' homes as part of the discharge planning assessment process, you must be able to meet the travel requirements of the role. The post is 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday with a requirement to work some Bank Holidays.
Job responsibilities
* To provide leadership to a designated inpatient Occupational Therapy Team.
* To lead a team of Occupational Therapists and support staff within a specialist area.
* To work as an autonomous practitioner using advanced clinical reasoning skills to provide highly specialist therapy assessment, treatment and advice to an independently managed caseload which will incorporate complex presentation of conditions.
* To take a lead role in clinical practice issues, raising the profile of the service and offering highly specialist advice to planning and service development teams in order to assist in the implementation of service improvements.
* To be responsible for the achievement of specific response time targets within the team.
* To complete effective, concise documentation of patients' records in line with Trust, professional & department standards.
* To ensure accurate data entry takes place within the team, in line with departmental standards.
* To work towards improving quality services including implementing evidence-based practice.
* To develop the clinical education of staff within the specialism and be responsible for the supervision of unqualified, newly qualified therapists and undergraduates who work under your direct supervision.
* To develop the service and patient pathways in line with clinical standards and best practice.
* To participate in research activities pertinent to the role.
* To assist in raising the profile of the service.
* To maintain professional development through participation in relevant professional training programmes.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Recognised degree in Occupational Therapy.
* HCPC registration.
* Membership of professional body.
Experience
* Significant previous experience at senior level of working as an Occupational Therapist in the specialty area.
* Evidence of high level communication skills within a wide variety of settings.
* Evidence of working within multidisciplinary, cross agency teams.
* Evidence of high level of post graduate training including CPD in relevant topic areas.
* Evidence of leadership and basic HR functions with lower grade staff members.
* Evidence of a sound understanding of clinical governance and risk management.
* Ability to assist patients to mobilise.
* Ability to carry out complex moving and handling procedures with patients involving the use of specific equipment such as mobile hoists and stand aids.
* Ability to meet the travel requirements of the post.
* Ability to sit at a workstation as necessary to complete administrative aspects of the post.
* Evidence of planning, delivering and evaluating training to others.
* Evidence of membership of relevant specialist interest group.
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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