Band 6 Occupational Therapist

University Hospitals Birmingham Nhs Foundation Trust; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 46,000; Full time

Job summary

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an Occupational Therapist at band 5/6 to join a dynamic therapy team at Heartlands Hospital. You will work within the multidisciplinary team supporting patients to return home as soon as possible, providing assessments, treatment and discharge planning across acute wards.

The post offers supervision, development plans and ongoing professional support, with opportunities to advance clinically and lead on service development within

Qualifications

• Degree or diploma in Occupational Therapy.
• Registered with HCPC.
• Evidence of CPD including recent post graduate training relevant to clinical speciality.
• Evidence of leadership training.
• Good standard of general education including GCSE English and maths grade C or above.
• A Levels or equivalent qualification.

Responsibilities

• Provide individualised therapeutic assessments, management and treatment of patients.
• Focus on facilitating discharges home, or to other care pathways and ensure ongoing needs are met by the most appropriate services.
• Engage in supervision, education and coordination of more junior qualified staff, generic support workers and students.
• Contribute to service development and data collection within the immediate team.

Skills

Communication skills

Teamwork

Discharge planning

Clinical reasoning

Interdisciplinary collaboration

Education

Degree or diploma in OT

HCPC registration

GCSE English & Maths

A Levels

Job description

Job summary

Are you a band 5 looking for progression or a band 6 looking for a change in your careers, then look no further. Here is your opportunity to join a friendly, dynamic and ever evolving therapy team, at Heartlands hospital as part of UHB. You will be working as part of the therapy team and the wider Multidisciplinary team supporting patients to return home as soon as possible. We need an excellent team worker with knowledge across a range of Occupational Therapy treatments. In return we offer you the opportunity to develop your clinical and interdisciplinary team working skills, supporting your career development with an individualised personal development plan, closely supported by your team lead. You will receive supervision regularly as part of our new more supportive structure in addition to annual appraisals, to support your immediate and longer term goals. You will be joining a team in a fast paced hospital with the vision of building healthier lives for the local community, there is therefore lots of opportunity to support with the development of the service to ensure that the ever changing needs of the community are met. If you require any additional information please do not hesitate contact Karen Cunningham, [e-mail] 01214241490

Main duties of the job

To provide individualised therapeutic assessments, management and treatment of patients in a variety of wards within the hospital setting. Focussing interventions to a wide variety of clinical cases across the acute hospital wards, applying Occupational Therapy knowledge and the OT process. There will be a strong focus on facilitating discharges home, or to other care pathways and ensure that their person specific ongoing needs are met by the most appropriate services. You should posses excellent communication, prioritisation and organisational skills, and experience in working in a multidisciplinary team. Undertaking all aspects of clinical duties as an autonomous practitioner and maintain associated records. Furthermore, assisting with supervision, education and co-ordination of more junior qualified staff, generic support workers and students. To engage in the service development process, and support with the collection of data, and supporting the implementation of changes within the immediate team. There may be occasions where you will need to deputise for your team lead.

About us

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust strives to have an inclusive culture where everyone feels like they belong, can thrive, knows that they add value and feels valued. We do this by developing compassionate and culturally competent leaders, being values driven in all that we do and by creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace that thrives on the diversity of our people. As such we want to attract and recruit talented individuals from all backgrounds, and for each of you to feel supported for the diversity you bring, to achieve your full potential. For those staff with a disability, including physical disability, long term health condition, mental health or neurodiverse condition, this also means being committed to making reasonable adjustments needed for you to carry out your role.

Job responsibilities

*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Degree or diploma in Occupational Therapy
• Registered with HCPC
• Evidence of CPD including recent post graduate training relevant to clinical speciality
• Evidence of leadership training
• Good standard of general education including GCSE English and maths grade C or above
• A Levels or equivalent qualification

Desirable

• Fieldwork Educator's certificate or attendance at Clinical Educators Course

Experience

Essential

• Demonstrates clinical experience enabling the post holder to manage a caseload of patients with complex needs in this speciality and will include experience in discharge planning.
• Team/service development
• A specialist knowledge across a range of OT treatments, routine and non-routine, requiring expertise within the field of occupational therapy
• An ability to cope with a range of complex options, finds solutions, analyse, compare and decide on appropriate course of action.

Desirable

• Experience of supporting students and more junior therapy staff
• An understanding of discharge routes in the community

Additional Criteria

Essential

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills including an ability to provide and receive complex, sensitive and contentious information An ability to communicate where there are barriers to understanding IT skills -- computer literate in email, Word & Powerpoint
• An ability to prioritise and organise own workload Demonstrate enthusiasm for speciality Demonstrate a professional attitude An ability to work as part of an inter-disciplinary team
• An ability to cope with a range of complex options, find solutions, analyse, compare and decide on an appropriate course of action
• An ability to work as part of an interdisciplinary team
• Demonstrate a professional attitude
• An ability to cope with moving/manoeuvring patients/equipment on a daily basis
• An ability to frequently concentrate on patient assessments and treatments
• An ability to cope with occasional exposure to distressing/emotional situations
• Demonstrate an interest in developing expertise within the relevant team
• Able to contribute to weekend service
• Ability to work varied shift patterns commensurate to service area

Desirable

• Desirable Able to drive with maximum 3 points on driving licence

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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