occupational therapist Nottingham, England
Job description
Band 7
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
Job overview
We are looking for a dynamic and compassionate occupational therapist, for a B7 Team Leader role in our QMC medicine-surgery service. The team covers a broad footprint of wards including general surgery, specialist feeding, diabetes and respiratory medicine, plus inpatient vascular and amputee services. We welcome applications from experienced B6 OTs looking to move to B7 roles, as well as already-established B7s.
Co-leading the team with a B7 Advanced Practitioner, this role offers expert clinical advice to therapy and specialty teams, supporting staff with decision making for patients with complex needs, upskilling and service development. Team leadership includes promoting high-quality patient care through monitoring performance, offering supervision and development conversations, and ensuring the team has resources and equipment required for their roles. Support will be given to develop these skills where needed.
Service developments in vascular, general surgery and medicine mean it is an exciting time for therapy services, with opportunity to influence care pathways for patients with rehab needs. While based at QMC, this post will involve working closely with colleagues at City Hospital to promote patient care across pathways.
The successful candidate will have wide-ranging rehab skills, including amputee rehab. Emerging skills in creating professional networks to influence service improvement, educating others, team leadership and management will be an advantage.
Main duties of the job
Please refer to job description and person specification for full details of the job. Core responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
Co-leading the medicine-surgery OT service in a dynamic and growing speciality, providing a responsive and timely service.
Providing a supportive environment for team members under your direct management, including undertaking annual appraisals and managing health and wellbeing.
Contributing to the education and teaching of all team members including students, preceptees, B6s and support workers.
Ensuring that high quality, evidenced based practice, service development and education underpin the service delivery.
Ensuring that NUH values and behaviours are embedded in everyday practice.
You will have excellent communication and team working skills, with the ability to apply problem-solving skills to patient care and leadership tasks. As this role will include working with patients and their families during potentially stressful life events, including end of life situations, a compassionate and resilient character is required.
This post will allow an OT with a keen interest in team leadership and inpatient care to expand clinical skills and leadership of a busy and responsive service, with a focus on leading and developing staff to support patient flow whilst promoting excellent patient care.
Working for our organisation
Nottingham University Hospitals (NUH) is one of the biggest and busiest NHS Trusts in the country. We are a large, complex, person-centred organisation with an excellent national and international reputation for the quality of patient care, research, education and innovation. For more information about the Trust, visit our website
It is an exciting time to be an OT at NUH, with a dedicated OT improvement lead in post to ensure the vital role of OT within acute healthcare is widely recognised, promoting career development and job opportunities across the OT workforce.
OT is part of the Therapies and Rehabilitation Directorate, within the Clinical Support Division. Employing over 700 staff working together to deliver high quality care, HCPC registered professionals include dietitians, OTs, orthotists, physiotherapists, prosthetists and speech and language therapists, plus support staff. Our Chief AHP leads strategic direction, many of the leadership team have AHP backgrounds and there are Practice Development Therapists to support career development.
We are passionate and driven therapists keen to make improvements across inpatient specialties. We offer a supportive educational environment encouraging all team members to reach their potential through postgraduate study, research and interdisciplinary working. B7 training and one to one input from the therapy services managers, clinical leads and clinical specialists is available. There is also excellent peer support.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The successful applicant will demonstrate advanced level occupational therapy skills in assessment and diverse interventions to facilitate rehabilitation and discharge planning.
A willingness to learn and develop further, both clinically and professionally and to lead on this within the team is essential. The successful applicant must be open minded to new ways of working and lead on this. The ideal individual for this role needs to be flexible, dynamic and forward thinking. Strong leadership qualities are essential in this post, alongside advocating for the OT role in the MDT setting. You will demonstrate an ability to work autonomously to an advanced level and provide support to other members of the team, including peers, Band 5 OT’s, including preceptees, support workers and students. The successful candidate will demonstrate the ability to work flexibly to support the needs of the service.
This role is a permanent position, offered full time (37.5h). Core hours are working Monday-Friday 8am-4pm. Additional duties will include participation in weekend working – these are rostered approximately once per month but many increase depending on clinical need.
Please see the detailed job description and person specification for more information.
Person specification
Training and qualifications
Essential criteria
- BSc (Hons) or equivalent qualification in Occupational Therapy
- HCPC registration
- Evidence of CPD in specialist area
Desirable criteria
- Masters degree or masters modules
Experience
Essential criteria
- Wide ranging and extensive experience of working within specialist area
- Experience managing staff performance and sickness, participation in recruitment processes
- Experience in evaluation of evidence-based practice, audit, service development and benchmarking; use of outcome measures
- Experience of training and supervising students
Communication skills
Essential criteria
- Excellent written, non-verbal and verbal communication skills
- Communicates complex patient related information effectively to patient, family and MDT where there may be barriers to understanding
- Offers constructive criticism with tact and diplomacy, in performance management of staff
- Demonstrates leadership ability
Analytical and judgement skills
Essential criteria
- Able to assess complex information, formulate a diagnosis and plan patient management using clinical reasoning skills and a range of treatment options
- Able to solve problems within the team and make decisions where there are a range of options - including clinical and strategic issues
- Able to assess and manage risk in own area
Planning and Organisational skills
Essential criteria
- Able to organise and prioritise individual and team workload
- Effective delegation and time management skills
Physical skills
Essential criteria
- Able to handle and move complex patients safely and in a way which promotes rehabilitation if applicable
Other requirements
Essential criteria
- Able to travel to required areas within and beyond the Trust
- Undertake out of hours duties as required.
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Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at the NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!
We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.
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Consent:
- Transfer of information: If I have previous NHS service - I consent to the transfer of my Electronic Staff Record (ESR) data between this and other NHS Trusts. I also consent to the Occupational Health Department confidentially accessing my occupational health records from my current or previous employer in order to check the status of my vaccinations, immunisations s and screening tests as relevant to the post. I understand this is an automated process and the information will only be used for these purposes prior to me taking up the position at NUH.
- Disclosure and Barring Service: Your post maybe subject to a DBS check which incur a cost dependent on the level of check required (£41.90 for enhanced and £21.90 for standard). I agree to reimburse Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust the cost of a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check if it is required (by deduction from first month’s pay). Should I decide to withdraw from my job offer, I agree to reimburse Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust the cost of the DBS check undertaken by cheque or other agreed method.
