Clinical Lead - Acute Paediatric Occupational Therapy | Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 13 May 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £48,526 - £54,619 pro rata |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 12 June 2024 |
| Location: | Manchester, M13 9WL |
| Company: | Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6266740/349-CSS-V6266740 |
Summary
Within Royal Manchester Children's Hospital an exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced peadiatric occupational therapist to provide leadership and operationally manage the acute paediatric occupational therapy inpatient and outpatient teams. There is a growing enthusiastic and dedicated team of 20 acute paediatric occupational therapists working across RMCH specialties including neurosciences, oncology, orthopaedics, rheumatology, chronic pain, burns and plastics, hands, critical care, metabolic bone disease including neonates at St Mary's MCS.
Depending on your experience there is an opportunity to participate in the Major Trauma / Orthopeadic out of hour’s service.
Please note hours are negotiable.
The successful candidate will have strong and broad ranging paediatric skills and substantial previous leadership/management experience . You will operationally manage the team as well as providing clinical expertise. A vision for research and service improvement is required to ensure continuing excellent patient and staff experience whilst ensuring local and national service priorities are met. The promotion of MFT excellence, is expected locally and nationally.
The department puts a strong emphasis on supporting our teams to develop specialist skills to achieve their full potential within a supported learning environment. As the clinical lead you will have a responsibility for ensuring continuing staff and team development and you will be supported to further develop your clinical, teaching and managerial skills.
You will have excellent communication and engagement skills to develop the service demonstrating flexibility and an innovative outlook.
You will work collaboratively and positively with other AHP managers and professional leads. There is direct access to ongoing support and guidance from the peadiatric occupational therapy professional lead as well as the opportunity to work alongside experienced therapy team leads.
MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of £2.6bn & 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 Electronic Patient Record system which 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 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.
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.
This advert closes on Wednesday 29 May 2024
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