Community OT Team Lead (Clinical) | Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 22 May 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £45,753 - £52,067 Per annum including HCAS |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 21 June 2024 |
| Location: | Fleet, GU51 4LZ |
| Company: | Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6321509/151-RO35 |
Summary
We have created this new position to work alongside the existing OT Team Leads in Community. This position is within the rapid response function of the service (Enhanced Recovery and Support at Home) and, whilst will have leadership and service development functions, will be focused on complex patient assessment and treatment.
Due to the existing leadership within the team (OT, PT and RN leads already in post) this is a great opportunity for either an existing B7 OT or a B6 OT looking for their first senior leadership role, having had extensive experience at B6 level. Due to the nature of this role, previous community experience is essential. The role will incorporate both the Duty Manager function as well as your clinical caseload and and team development and management.
We provide comprehensive training and formal CPD opportunities and are in the unique position of being able to provide this hybrid clinical and managerial position. You will receive full training in the team, have regular 1:1s with the Service Manager as well as multiple opportunities for informal supervision and peer support from the other Team Leads.
The post is advertised as full time working 5 days per week but, for the right candidate, we would consider 4 days per week.
Shifts will be a mix of long days (08:00-18:00) for Duty Manager only, with all other shifts being worked as 7.5hr days, starting between 8am-10am depending on the needs of the service/your workload and rostered over 7 days.
• To hold a small, complex, clinical caseload that will include undertaking generic and specialist assessments of patients with diverse and complex physical conditions, providing a clinical diagnosis and delivery of individualised recovery programmes. The caseload will include patients requiring chronic disease management as well as support to avoid admission to hospital and on discharge from hospital.
• To support the recovery process by providing expert clinical advice and recovery to patients with multiple long term conditions
• Provide high level assessment to establish most appropriate intervention, balancing clinical and managerial responsibilities to the service.
• Undertake comprehensive assessment of patients including those with diverse and highly complex presentations and multiple pathologies, using advanced clinical and analytical skills to provide an accurate assessment of their condition.
• Using advanced generalist clinical skills to evaluate the delivery of care, identifying subtle changing health care needs.
• Demonstrate responsibility and accountability for the clinical caseload and co-ordinate recovery intervention across the whole patient pathway within the community.
• Provide individualised recovery plans for patients with highly complex multi-factorial long term conditions, so that their condition remains as stable as possible and, where appropriate, hospital admission is prevented and early discharge facilitated.
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.
We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough.
Our threecore values, and the behaviors that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other,Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.
We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical, and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital's NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties.
• To be part of the community’s leadership team responsible for the management of service performance against Key Performance Indicators, including: management of response times; leading service developments in line with clinical strategies; and acting as a representative and advocate of the service internally and externally.
• To oversee a local rotation, staff development, closer relationships with acute OTs and manage the OT service operationally and clinically.
• To support ongoing development of the community and therapy services.
• Be a clinical and professional leader and role model for AHPs and other professionals within the community, developing knowledge of ideas and work practice, promoting this through appropriate attitudes and behaviour.
• Contribute to health promotion and disease prevention activities with individuals or groups in line with the public health agenda.
• Responsible for the day-to-day operational management within the team.
• Identify potential service developments, risks and deficits and discuss with line manager, making recommendations based on expert knowledge to enhance the capacity and quality of primary care.
• Undertake investigations of complaints where required, participate in the risk management process, critical incident reporting, evaluation, action planning, dissemination and change in practice.
• Take responsibility for cost effective management and safe use of expensive and highly complex equipment, provide recommendations for effective use of resources and contribute to the effective delivery of cost improvement planning.
• Participate in the provision of caseload activity levels for self and ensure accurate recording of referral activity within the recovery function. Report activity levels and variances to management in order to identify and plan future health care needs and assist in their implementation.
• Be responsible for the supervision and coordination of the team on a daily basis, their clinical practice and record keeping. This includes undertaking the Duty Manager role.
• Undertake triage and prioritisation of referrals and oversee clinical caseload within the community.
• Be able to balance team, patient related and professional activities effectively and efficiently in accordance with service requirements.
• Play an active role in the management of clinical governance and patient safety.
• Responsible for advising and supporting service leaders in the management of recovery specific costs.
• Work with the team and senior managers to ensure that contract monitoring, budget and activity requirements under the Service Level Agreements are achieved by clinical team(s).
• Work with senior management to manage capacity and performance at a team and locality level, addressing issues that arise due to sickness, absence or vacancies.
• Work with community leader(s) to ensure that the benefits of an integrated care model are realised and that demands on different areas of the workforce are effectively managed.
• Work with Learning and Organisational Development to ensure post-registration training needs and opportunities are communicated within the Trust.
• Act as clinical educator for relevant undergraduate students, maintaining good links with universities.
• Be able to manage potentially stressful, aggressive, upsetting or emotional situations is a constructive and empathetic manner.
• Ensure all records within the service comply with the Information Governance framework.
• Participate in the design, development and implementation of policies, protocols and procedures within the community services.
• Keep an accurate diary that reflects daily work and travel.
• Act as clinical lead for the locality, both at internal and external meetings as required.
• Act as the Team’s Duty Manager on a rota basis, in addition to being your own Team Lead
• Provide effective leadership and management to staff which promotes high performance standards both individually and as a team, in the achievement of the Trust’s objectives and priorities. The Trust’s success will be dependant on all managers playing an active role to make sure the existing areas of good employment practice are universally embedded within the organisation.
This advert closes on Wednesday 29 May 2024