Job summary
- Main area
- Community Services - Physiotherapy / Occupational Therapy
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (37.5 hours over 7 days including bank holidays and weekends)
- Job ref
- 382-FICC122-24
- Employer
- Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Rapid Response Team , The Stadium
- Town
- Blackpool
- Salary
- £43,742 - £50,056 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 08/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical Specialist Occupational Therapist
NHS AfC: Band 7
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is situated on the west coast of Lancashire, with services covering the local authority areas of Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre. The Trust is part of the Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care System (ICS) supporting a population of around 1.6 million people.
We have three main hospitals providing acute services to around 330,000 local residents. The organisation also provides specialist tertiary care for cardiac and haematology services, delivers community health services to over 445,000 residents including those in North Lancashire and hosts the National Artificial Eye Service across England. Plus, we provide urgent and emergency care services to an estimated 18 million people who visit the seaside resort each year. We employ over 7000 people from 68 different countries.
We welcome and encourage application from anyone with protected characteristics, as well as supporting reservists and Veterans who are looking for a rewarding and challenging career within the NHS.
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals encourages flexible working in all our roles to support staff in maintaining healthy home-life balance. Working patterns such as: part time working, self-rostering, compressed hours, annualised hours, term time, reverse term time and flexitime working can be explored.
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the proactive and enthusiastic Rapid Response Team (South) is looking to appoint a highly motivated band specialist O/T to join our Rapid Response Team.
The post holder will work as a member of the multi disciplinary team supporting the Team Leader and her deputies in the delivery of the Rapid Response Service, supporting the development of the Rapid Response Team and raising the profile of the Rapid Response Service. Rapid Response’s aim is to preventing hospital admission or facilitating early discharge from hospital by providing intensive packages of care to manage acutely and chronically ill patients at home.
Main duties of the job
Rapid Response is a multi-disciplinary team with support workers, physiotherapists, occupational therapists and Nurses providing integrated skills and sharing knowledge. This includes performing therapy skills when therapy staff are not available, a comprehensive understanding of the roles of others in team is imperative. The post holder will work collaboratively with others and support members of the team in the delivery, and management of complex health issues. In particular they will be responsible for ensuring the timely provision of a high standard of assessment, advice, planning, implementation, training support and evaluation of care. A broad range of O/T knowledge, interventions and skills are required. With a particular emphasis on the care of the respiratory patient at home.
You will have experience of working collaboratively within a community or acute setting. The post-holder will have excellent assessment, and intervention skills. You will be able to carry out comprehensive assessments and make autonomous decisions based on the data obtained. You will have the opportunity to provide client-centered assessments and interventions for a caseload of patients with acute illness. You will also offer clinical supervision/support to other O/T and support staff.
Working for our organisation
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is situated on the west coast of Lancashire and offers a full range of District Hospital services and Community Health services to this population.
Commitment to undertake ongoing in-service training and development is essential. You should be motivated, keen to learn and ready to embrace change. Our commitment to you is to provide the environment for this to happen an ensure that you are part of a defined preceptorship programme.
If you are motivated to deliver high standards of care and have the personal qualities and characteristics as outlined in the Blackpool person then this could be the post for you.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
This role will have a main focus around the clinical governance of the service.
This will include but is not exhaustive to:
Provide a high standard Occupational Therapy Service in the most appropriate setting for Rapid, 2hr Urgent Community Response and Virtual Wards patients.
· Independently manage and be responsible for your own clinical caseload.
· Provide clinical leadership for staff, taking a lead role in Continued Professional Development activities (CPD) and to have a shared responsibility for the clinical development of staff.
· Take a lead role in the advanced assessment and treatment of patients within the clinical speciality, to interpret and analyse clinical and non-clinical facts to form an accurate diagnosis, discuss treatment options and agree a management plan with patients, in order to achieve agreed set goals.
· Act as a source of specialist advice in the management of problems within the clinical area to patients, Occupational Therapists, other health care professionals GP’s and Consultants.
- Supporting the delivery of an integrated approach to patient care across all professions, but specialising in the non-nursing elements of the service ).
- Identifying and addressing areas of clinical development across the service.
- Providing training from their own area of expertise.
- Managing the clinical performance of staff.
- Managing complex issues in the care of patients such as safeguarding risks or self neglect.
- Ensuring safe staffing levels are in place and work with the team leader to address this.
- Supporting the wellbeing of staff.
- Deputising in the absence of the Team Leader
- Facilitating effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders such as other primary care teams and GP Practice staff.
This role would suit an individual with leadership experience and a dynamic mindset regarding how the service can best meet it's current and future objectives.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Graduate diploma/ Degree in Occupational Therapy
- HPC registration
- Member of BAOT
- Post Graduate qualification in clinical speciality
Desirable criteria
- Working towards relevant post graduate qualification to Masters Level
Skills
Essential criteria
- Advanced Clinical Skills
- Commitment to clinical and service audit
- Evidence of research based practice
- Knowledge of relevant National Agendas/Policies/frameworks
- Ability to be responsible for the development of and implementation of Clinical Policies and Procedures
- Organisational skills
- Ability to disseminate information across organisational boundaries
- Information Management and Technology Skills
- Presentation skills
- Communication skills – experience of and ability to work as part of a broad multi-disciplinary team/cross organisation working
- Leadership skills
- Time Management Skills – ability to meet deadlines
- Car owner/ driver or suitable transport arrangements to enable you to undertake the job
Experience
Essential criteria
- Substantial clinical experience at a Senior level
- Education and supervision of students
- Maintenance of developmental portfolio
Desirable criteria
- Experience at Senior 1 level in Clinical Speciality
- Membership of relevant interest group(s)
- Working as a Lead Clinician – delegating to others, overseeing their work and providing clinical leadership
Personal Attributes
Essential criteria
- Commitment to personal development
- Commitment to the development of the Clinical Team
- Ability to motivate
- Ability to negotiate
- Quick thinking
- Flexible/ adaptable
- Resourceful
- Assertive
- Ability to accept advice and act on it
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Sarah Marquis
- Job title
- Team Leader
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01253 951068
- Additional information
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