Senior Specialist Occupational Therapist

Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust; Manchester; On-site; GBP 46,000 - 53,000; Part time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity awaits a dedicated Occupational Therapist to join a dynamic Post COVID Rehabilitation Team in Central Manchester. This role is perfect for those eager to enhance their clinical skills and make a significant impact on patient care. You will provide specialized assessments and treatments, ensuring patients receive high-quality care in various settings, including their homes. The position offers robust support from experienced colleagues and the chance to lead service delivery in a growing field. If you are driven, compassionate, and ready to take your career to the next level, this is the opportunity for you!

Qualifications

• HCPC registration and a degree in Occupational Therapy are essential.
• Experience in community rehabilitation and clinical leadership is required.

Responsibilities

• Lead Post COVID service delivery and provide specialist assessments.
• Supervise junior staff and ensure high-quality patient care.

Skills

Occupational Therapy

Community Rehabilitation

Clinical Leadership

Adult Rehabilitation

Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT) Working

Clinical Governance

Change Management

Crisis Management

Education

Degree in Occupational Therapy

Registration with the HCPC

Clinical Educator Qualification

Job description

Senior Specialist Occupational Therapist

Band 7

Main area: Community Occupational Therapist

Grade: Band 7

Contract: Permanent

Hours: Part time - 30 hours per week (Monday to Friday)

Job ref: 349-LCO-6806628*

Site: Alexandra Park Health Centre

Town: Manchester

Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 Per Annum (Pro Rata)

Salary period: Yearly

Closing: 06/01/2025 23:59

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Occupational Therapist to join the Post COVID Rehabilitation Team in Central Manchester, within the Integrated Community Rehabilitation Services (ICRS).

We are looking for a candidate with a variety of experience as an Occupational Therapist, including community rehabilitation, and who is keen to develop clinical and service development skills in the field of Post COVID Rehabilitation. You will be supported by the ICRS Lead and will have excellent peer support from the other Post COVID leads across the city.

This post provides a unique opportunity to use your specialist rehabilitation skills and will involve delivering high-quality care to patients in their own homes, clinic setting, or virtually as appropriate.

The ICRS currently provides therapy across the areas of Home-Physiotherapy, Post COVID Rehabilitation Service, Falls, Orthopaedic Outreach, and Community OT. You will be leading the Post COVID Rehabilitation Service while providing support as needed across the ICRS, thus providing an excellent varied opportunity to use your clinical skills across different areas.

If you are an enthusiastic and well-motivated HCPC registered occupational therapist with good communication, clinical, and organisational skills, and an interest in specialising in Post COVID Rehabilitation, this is an exciting opportunity for developing skills within a specialist area.

UK driving license and access to own vehicle are essential for the post.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be responsible for providing highly specialist Occupational Therapy assessment and treatment for patients referred, ensuring appropriate input and pathways of care and communications via liaison and referral to other agencies as required. The post holder will particularly focus on leading Post COVID service delivery along with other ICRS services as demand rises.

The post holder will be responsible for allocated aspects of leading and developing the Service with a focus on Long COVID service to ensure delivery of a high quality, evidence-based Post COVID service across the MLCO Footprint.

The post holder will be professionally and legally accountable for all aspects of their professional and clinical work and work to agreed KPIs, national, and professional standards.

The post holder will participate in continuing professional development, clinical audit, and in-service training.

The post holder will supervise and support more junior occupational therapists, assistants, and students.

The post holder will provide clinical and managerial support to MDT colleagues in the team.

Due to the nature of the role, it is essential that applicants can drive and have access to a car for business purposes.

Working for our organisation

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trusts in England with a turnover of £2.8bn and is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health and social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals and community services from across Manchester, Trafford, and beyond, we champion collaborative working and transformation, encouraging our 30,000 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 and staff experience, operational effectiveness, and drive research and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.

We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre and 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 Green Plan which sets 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.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Registration with the HCPC
• Degree in Occupational Therapy
• Clinical Educator Qualification
• Active member of relevant specialist interest group

Experience

• Relevant post-graduate experience in a variety of specialities at band 6/7 level
• Skills in adult rehabilitation
• Experience in providing clinical leadership and problem-solving skills
• Line management of staff and students, including teaching, supervision, appraisal
• Experience of MDT working
• Knowledge and experience of implementing new policies and procedures at service level.
• Community experience working with people with complex pathology/social needs/mental health needs
• Audit Experience
• Research Experience
• Good understanding of current guidelines, frameworks, and priorities in the NHS

Skills, Abilities and Knowledge

• Ability to manage a highly complex caseload
• Ability to demonstrate a sound understanding of clinical governance and risk
• Awareness of benefits and challenges of partnership and multi-agency working
• Ability to manage crisis and reorganise workload at short notice
• Awareness of national guidelines relating to Post COVID area
• Specialist knowledge and advanced clinical skills relevant to Post COVID
• Change management

Attributes

• Self-motivated
• Ability to work on own initiative and within a team
• Valid Full UK driving licence and access to a car for business purposes to enable travel across Manchester
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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.

Name: Vaishali Shinde

Job title: ICRS Lead

Email address: [e-mail]

Telephone number: 07729838872

Second Contact:

Name: Rebecca Alcock

Job title: Senior Specialist Occupational Therapist

Email: [e-mail]