Clinical Lead Occupational Therapist | Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 15 May 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £43,742 - £50,056 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 14 June 2024 |
| Location: | Prescot, L35 5DR |
| Company: | St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6262251/409-6262251 |
Summary
Due to significant new investment, we are excited to offer a brand-new Clinical Lead Occupational Therapist post. The post holder will join our existing friendly Community Intermediate Care Therapy team based in St Helens. This is a fantastic opportunity to join a well-established supportive team who provides patient centred care working collaboratively with health and social care colleagues.
The main aim will be to introduce processes that support the team to meet the new NHS England 2-day standard for seeing new referrals and monitoring and reporting performance against this.
Additional aims include:
· Reduction of numbers of patients on existing waiting list
· Reduction in length of time a patient is on the waiting list
· Management of complex patients
· Establishing patient experience and other outcome measures
· Reduction in LOS in local bed-based intermediate care unit
· Improving links with local UCR and reablement services
· Promotion of service to raise profile of the team
· Working with new Clinical Lead Physio to implement the CSP community rehabilitation best practice standards
We therefore require candidates who are innovative, forward thinking and driven to facilitate change. They should have a proven track record in leadership, meeting Key Performance Indicators, collaborating across primary and secondary care and experience in quality improvement.The successful candidate will have excellent communication skills, be able to work as part of a team, provide clinical supervision and education and be able to work flexibly to help meet the demands of the service.
The team of 10 Therapists and 4 Therapy Assistants work in a variety of settings including patient’s own homes, residential and nursing facilities and have admin support. We also provide in-reach therapy into an intermediate care unit based in a local residential home, supported by a new Activity Co-Ordinator. Due to the nature of the post, it would be desirable that the successful applicant is able to travel independently, have access to a suitable vehicle for business purposes and hold a full UK driving licence.
We are committed to continuing professional and personal development and will therefore provide support with regular supervision and access to training.We provide clinical placements for students, and you will be required to contribute to their education, including the education of students in the wider MDT.
The Secretary of State has approved the partnership between St Helens & Knowsley and Southport & Ormskirk Hospitals.
From 1stJuly we have come together as a single organisation under the name Mersey & West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.
The Trust delivers acute hospital care, intermediate care, community, and primary care services to a population of over 600,000 people with a combined workforce of around 9000 dedicated and skilled staff from 17 locations including Whiston, Southport & Formby, St Helens, Ormskirk and Newton hospitals.
The Trust provides regional services for burns, plastic surgery and spinal injuries to more than 4 million people across Mersey and West Lancashire, Cheshire, the Isle of Man and North Wales.
Our Vision is to deliver 5 Star Patient Care:
• CARE that is evidence based, high quality and compassionate
• SAFETY that is of the highest standards
• COMMUNICATION that is open, inclusive and respectful
• SYSTEMS that are efficient, patient centred and reliable
• PATHWAYS that are best practice and embedded, but also respect the individual needs of patients
Our achievements include:
• Trust rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018
• Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)
• Awarded National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for our Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme
Please see our Wellbeing & Benefits booklet for more information on our staff benefits. Accessible version available upon request.
KEY DUTIES
• To work within Trust clinical guidelines, HCPC and Registrant Body guidelines and to have a working knowledge of national and local standards and monitor own and others quality of practise against these.
• To work in secondary care in a variety of hospital settings and the patient’s own homes.
• To demonstrate as appropriate to role highly developed physical skills for assessment and treatment of patients eg dexterity, co-ordination, palpatory and other senses.
• To deputise for senior staff in leading specific team.
CLINICAL & PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES
• To communicate complex patient and service-related information effectively to Health and Wellbeing and local authority colleagues and third sector agencies.
• Use complex communication skills and knowledge when working with patients, their families and other provider agencies.
• To involve the patient and the family/carers in all relevant discussions about their management and decisions that are made about treatment techniques and facilitating patient involvement in the planning, development, delivery and evaluation of the service.
• To assess capacity, gain valid informed consent and have the ability to work within a legal framework with patients who lack capacity to consent to treatment.
• Delivering high level and complex triage, clinical assessment, diagnostics, treatment and evaluation of the needs within the trust.
• Providing leadership; promoting a learning culture for colleagues and other agencies; leading service innovations and demonstrating high level problem solving.
• Ensuring excellence in service delivery through personal and service development, underpinned by evidence-based practice and research, embedded in the quality assurance agenda.
• Driving innovation; managing the change process to ensure your service continues to be flexible and proactive to reflect the needs of the trust.
• To triage patients with complex needs.
• To undertake complex clinical assessments of patients/ service users within sphere of advanced practice.
• To determine a clinical diagnosis and make high level decisions regarding appropriate treatment/ care plans.
• Implement complex care/ interventions according to clinical need.
• Evaluate complex care/ interventions based on evidence from clinical outcomes and best practice.
• To provide advanced clinical advice, support and training to patients/ service users, families, carers and professional colleagues to improve their journey and their health and wellbeing.
• To be professionally accountable for all aspects of own work including the management of patients in your care.
• Registered practitioners who are non-medical prescribers are accountable for their prescribing activities by ensuring they are aware of their Professional accountability and any restrictions or special considerations in their prescribing practice.
• To develop and maintain the high-level clinical skills required to work as an advanced practitioner.
ADMINISTRATIVE RESPONSIBILITIES
• To maintain accurate, comprehensive and up to date documentation, in line with legal and departmental requirements, and communicate assessment and treatment results to the appropriate disciplines in the form of reports and letters.
• To collect appropriate data and statistics for the use in the review of the service delivery.
• To use appropriate information technology skills for communication when required.
TEACHING & TRAINING RESPONSIBILITIES
• To deliver relevant, evidence-based training to patients, families, carers and trust staff.
• To provide specific training as required to the patient, family, carers and other members of the multidisciplinary team on the clinical and therapeutic management of an individual to support their health and wellbeing.
• To supervise and performance manage a range of clinical and non-clinical staff (including students) as required to do so. Taking into account the breadth of knowledge, skills and experience held and required.
• To attend and contribute to local and national conferences and special interest groups within sphere of practice.
• To maintain own CPD by keeping abreast of any new trends and developments, and incorporate them as necessary into your work, supporting other staff with their CPD.
LINE MANAGEMENT/SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES
• To demonstrate leadership by means of:• Delivering change within sphere of practice, when and where indicated, to improve service delivery.
• Influencing, motivating, supporting and enabling others to contribute towards the effectiveness and success of the trust.
• To provide high level advice and guidance in working with colleagues locally to ensure best practice across all disciplines in the assessment, treatment and long term management of patients/ service users within sphere of practice.
• To identify innovations and lead the implementation of new working practices in conjunction with patients/ service users, health, wellbeing, local authority and third sector partners.
• To take responsibility for their own high level and complex decision making and the decisions of their team which effect service delivery.
CLINICAL GOVERNANCE, RESEARCH & AUDIT
• Registered Practitioners are required to evidence maintenance of their registration with the relevant regulatory body and work to their Code of Professional Conduct.
• To benchmark current service delivery against local and national clinical guidelines and standards of care.
• To lead on current best practice, based on the bench marking outcomes.
• To translate local and national guidelines and train staff to ensure they have the skills and knowledge required to deliver effective services.
• To measure and evaluate own work and current practices through the use of evidence-based projects, audit, research, statistical information and outcome measures and lead others in doing so.
• To network with practitioner colleagues within the trust and across the North West and Nationally, to learn together and share good practice.
• To interpret and implement quality assurance practices within own work situation.
This advert closes on Monday 27 May 2024
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