Band 7 OT Emergency Department

NHS Jobs; Greater London; In loco; GBP 40.000 - 48.000; Tempo pieno

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Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an Occupational Therapy Team Lead for the Medical Team at the QEH site. The post holder will provide professional and clinical leadership to Occupational Therapy staff, supervise day-to-day operations, and deputise for the OT Site Lead as required.

The role involves managing a significant and highly specialised medical caseload and coordinating education, evaluation, audit and research.

Competenze

• Significant autonomous clinical caseload management.
• Advanced level clinical practice with accountability.
• Knowledge of clinical governance and national guidelines.
• Ability to assess capacity and obtain informed consent.

Mansioni

• Undertake autonomous clinical duties with highly complex presentations.
• Work at an advanced level with highly specialised patient caseloads.
• Be professionally and legally responsible for own work and pathway team.
• Assess patient capacity and obtain informed consent within legal frameworks.
• Perform comprehensive assessments and accurate diagnoses with complex presentations.
• Order diagnostic procedures to inform clinical decision making.

Conoscenze

Clinical leadership

Advanced clinical practice

Autonomous practitioner

Clinical governance

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JOB PURPOSE The Occupational Therapy Team Lead provides professional and clinical leadership to Occupational Therapy staff in the Medical Team based at the QEH site. The post holder supervises the day to day running of the medical Occupational Therapy team and is line managed by the Occupational Therapy Site Lead at QEH. To achieve this, the post holder works in close collaboration with the OT Site Lead QEH, and the other Band 7 Occupational Therapy Team Leads. The Occupational Therapy Team Lead is a highly experienced clinician in medicine particularly neurology who independently manages a significant and highly specialised clinical caseload. In conjunction with the OT Site Lead, the post holder coordinates a rollingprogramme of education, clinical evaluation, audit and research within the pathway team atQEH. As part of the senior clinical Occupational Therapy team on the QEH site, the post holder will deputise for the Occupational Therapy Site Lead QEH as required. The post is based on the Queen Elizabeth site but may at times be asked to work on other sites in order to maintain service levels 7-day working for Therapies is in place within the Trust and the postholder is required to undertake a different working pattern, including weekends, in the future.

KEY RELATIONSHIPS

• INTERNAL INCLUDE: Therapy Managers and Therapy leads, own Teams, referring clinicians, MDTs, on ward, therapy administrative team, HR, other Trust Committees and own clinical teams
• EXTERNAL INCLUDE: GPs, Community Services, Social services, Local authorities, AHP managers and leads, Voluntary services, College of Occupational Therapists, Health professions council, DoH Networks and Policy Groups, Higher Education Institutes, Colleges and Schools, NHSE.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Clinical 1. To undertake all aspects of clinical duties and to carry a significant caseload of patients as an autonomous practitioner, including those with highly complex presentations
2. Clinical 2. To work at an advanced level and to be professionally and legally accountable for a highly-specialised patient caseload and to decide priorities for own work area, balancing other patient related and professional demands
3. Clinical 3. To be professionally and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of own work, and of the pathway teams work. This will include the management of clinical risk, clinical governance, knowledge of indications and precautions of chosen techniques in line with National and Trust clinical guidelines and protocols where they exist.
4. Clinical 4. To assess patients capacity, gain valid informed consent to treatment and where such capacity is lacking/absent to work within a legal framework in the management of the patient
5. Clinical 5. To undertake the comprehensive assessment and accurate diagnosis of patients, including those with an extremely complex presentation, using investigative, palpatory, analytical and clinical reasoning skills
6. Clinical 6. As appropriate to the job role, to request diagnostic procedures that will inform clinical decision making

Please read attached Job description for full details All clinical staff are accountable and responsible for their own clinical competence and should limit their actions to those for which they are deemed competent in line with guidance from their professional bodies.

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust