Band 7 Occupational Therapy Team Lead Manchester, England
Job description
We are looking for an enthusiastic, patient focused and highly motivated experienced Band 7 Occupational Therapist to join our Complex Health & Social Care Team. You will work alongside the Clinical Lead to deliver expert care, assessment and support safe and timely discharges.
This is an ideal opportunity for an Occupational Therapist with extensive clinical experience in Frailty and Complex Health care as well as community services and discharge pathways. The ideal candidate will have experience of working and managing within a team as well as multidisciplinary working.
You should have excellent communication skills and experience supporting junior team members and students with supervision, appraisal and training.
To undertake a team leader role alongside the service Clinical Lead for Acute Medical Patient Services, Consultants, Physicians, Nurses and other Allied Health Professionals (AHP’s) within the Acute Medical and Complex Health & Social Care Service, in planning, co-ordination, delivering and evaluating the therapy service provided to patients within this service area.
As an automounous practitioner they will assess, diagnose, and treat patients in their specialist field. The candidate will manage a case load alongside providing leadership and support to the Acute Complex Health & Social Care therapy team through supervision and appraisal.
The successful candidate will work to national and professional standards and apply these standards to identify and progress opportunities to facilitate service devlelopment.
MFT is England’s largest NHS Trust with a turnover of £2.5bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.
Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.
We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our brand-new Electronic Patient Record system which we’ve launched in September 2022.
We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our new Green Plan which will set out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.
At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the ‘Supporting Documents’ heading. So that you’re even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you’ll need to take time to read the ‘Candidate Essentials Guide’that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how ‘we care for you as you care for others’. Most importantly, it also contains critical information you’ll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.
COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not currently a condition of employment, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. If you are unvaccinated, there is helpful advice and information available by searching on the ‘NHS England’ website where you can also find out more about how to access the vaccination.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team [email protected].
We’re looking forward to hearing from you!
