Clinical Lead - Occupational Therapist | Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 26 September 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £46,148 - £52,809 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 26 October 2024 |
| Location: | St Helens, WA9 3DA |
| Company: | St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 6676150/409-6491234-A |
Summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Occupational Therapist to join the St Helens Community Intermediate Care Team for a Clinical Lead secondment. The therapist will be expected to work closely alongside the rest of the team to promote effective team working, service development and delivery. This secondment will provide an opportunity to gain leadership and team development skills with support from the existing Team Lead.
The successful applicant will workflexiblyalongside highly experienced therapists, working in the community and within a residential rehab setting.
The aim isto provide a community rehab service to patient who have experienced a deterioration in function following a period of illness.The ideal applicant will be expected to actively participate in shaping future developments within the service as it continues to grow.
The successful candidate will be at least 4 years post grad qualification withsignificant experience as a senior therapist. They will need to demonstratespecialist knowledge and skills to treat their patients and make sound clinically reasoned decisions. They will need to demonstrate effective communication skills, be committed to the delivery of quality care as part of the multi-disciplinary team, and provide a holistic patient intervention.
Due to the nature of the post the successful applicant should be able to travel independently, have access to a suitable vehicle for business purposes and hold a full UK driving licence.
As a Trust, we are committed to continuing professional and personal development and will therefore provide support with regular supervision and training. We are keen to promote collaborative practice and to develop staff within a supportive and friendly environment.
Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust serves a population of over 600,000 with a workforce of over 9000 dedicated and skilled staff across 21 sites.
We strongly believe that the communities we serve should all have access to Five Star Patient Care.
Our Services:
Acute Care
Providing emergency and maternity services at Whiston, Southport and Ormskirk hospitals, and medical and surgical specialties across all our sites.
Primary Care
Providing primary care services at Marshalls Cross Medical Centre situated in St Helens Hospital.
Community Services
Providing adult community services for St Helens and a wheelchair service in Chorley, South Ribble, and West Lancashire. Our inpatient unit at Newton Community Hospital is where patients needing acute hospital beds can continue rehabilitation, freeing up space for more unwell patients. We also provide urgent care at our Urgent Treatment Centre located in St Helens town centre.
Specialist Regional Services
We provide the Mersey Regional Burns & Plastic Surgery Unit at Whiston Hospital and the Spinal Injuries Unit at Southport Hospital to more than 4 million people across the whole of Merseyside, West Lancashire, Cheshire, Isle of Man and North Wales.
Achievements:
• Rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018
• Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)
• National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme
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 e.g. 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.
This advert closes on Sunday 13 Oct 2024
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