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Occupational Therapist - Care of Older Adults Band 7

Dyddiad hysbysebu:	02 Hydref 2024
Cyflog:	£46,148.00 i £52,809.00 bob blwyddyn
Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog:	£46148.00 - £52809.00 a year
Oriau:	Llawn Amser
Dyddiad cau:	03 Tachwedd 2024
Lleoliad:	London, SE18 4QH
Cwmni:	NHS Jobs
Math o swydd:	Parhaol
Cyfeirnod swydd:	C9197-24-1173

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JOB PURPOSE The Occupational Therapy Team Lead provides professional and clinical leadership to Occupational Therapy staff in the Older Peoples Team based at the QEH site. The post holder supervises the day to day running of the Older Peoples Occupational Therapy team and is line managed by the Occupational Therapy Site Lead at QEH. To achieve this, the post holder works in close collaboration with the OT Site Lead QEH, and the other Band 7 Occupational Therapy Team Leads. The Occupational Therapy Team Lead is a highly experienced clinician in older people who independently manages a significant and highly specialised clinical caseload. In conjunction with the OT Site Lead, the post holder coordinates a rolling programme of education, clinical evaluation, audit and research within the older people and frailty pathway at QEH. As part of the senior clinical Occupational Therapy team on the QEH site, the post holder will deputise for the Occupational Therapy Site Lead QEH as required. The post is based on the Queen Elizabeth site but may at times be asked to work on other sites in order to maintain service levels 7-day working for Therapies is under development within the Trust and the postholder may be required to undertake a different working pattern, including weekends, in the future. DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES Clinical 1. To undertake all aspects of clinical duties and to carry a significant caseload of patients as an autonomous practitioner, including those with highly complex presentations 2. To work at an advanced level and to be professionally and legally accountable for a highly-specialised patient caseload and to decide priorities for own work area, balancing other patient related and professional demands 3. To be professionally and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of own work, and of the pathway teams work. This will include the management of clinical risk, clinical governance, knowledge of indications and precautions of chosen techniques in line with National and Trust clinical guidelines and protocols where they exist. 4. To assess patients capacity, gain valid informed consent to treatment and where such capacity is lacking/absent to work within a legal framework in the management of the patient 5. To undertake the comprehensive assessment and accurate diagnosis of patients, including those with an extremely complex presentation, using investigative, palpatory, analytical and clinical reasoning skills 6. As appropriate to the job role, to request diagnostic procedures that will inform clinical decision making 7. To undertake physical treatment techniques utilising highly developed manual skills 8. To formulate individualised clinical management programmes, utilising a wide range of treatment skills and options to plan a highly-specialised programme of care 9. To use recognised outcome measures to evaluate the effect of Occupational Therapy interventions and ensure that treatment programmes are progressing appropriately. 10. To provide spontaneous and planned expert advice, teaching and instruction to relatives, carers, other disciplines and agencies. To promote understanding of the aims of Occupational Therapy and to ensure continuation of the treatment programme. To be consulted by staff within the pathway, the Trust and externally. 11. To participate in and where indicated, initiate multidisciplinary/multi-agency team meetings and case conferences to ensure the co-ordination of patient care. This may include the review of patient progress and discharge planning 12. To ensure accurate, comprehensive and up to date clinical records are maintained in accordance with Trust guidance and professionally agreed criteria 13. To identify and employ suitable verbal and non-verbal communication skills with patients where there may be barriers to understanding or the inability to accept diagnosis. To facilitate the best possible communication outcome in every situation and use appropriate services e.g. interpreters, SALT 14. To ensure that individual practice and that of the pathway team is user focused and patient views are incorporated into treatment planning 15. To employ appropriate skills such as persuasion, motivation and negotiation to gain co-operation in the continuation of the agreed treatment programme 16. To communicate with empathy, patient information which may be of a complex and sensitive nature including details of prognosis or disability that may be unwelcome 17. To receive highly complex patient related information from patients, relatives, carers and other professionals to effectively plan and develop individual case management 18. To communicate and advise regarding highly complex patient related information effectively to ensure collaborative working within the Occupational Therapy service and with other professionals across health and other agencies to ensure the delivery of a coordinated multidisciplinary service 19. To be integral in discharge planning including liason with referring hospitals or community staff to which patients are discharged, providing timely discharge reports 20. To produce comprehensive patient related reports for other disciplines or agencies relating to assessment findings and/or treatment outcomes 21. To undertake an extended scope role as appropriate to the needs of the service (an extended scope practitioner undertakes delegated responsibility on behalf of medical practitioner(s) including the independent management of complete episodes of care of patients from referral to discharge) 22. To undertake the measurement and evaluation of own work through audit, outcome measurement, the application of evidence based practice and research where appropriate. To identify and initiate audit projects to review current clinical practice within the pathway 23. To lead the implementation and evaluation of Trust wide Occupational Therapy clinical outcomes within a designated pathway and monitor adherence with professional and national standards 24. To work to Trust and British Association of Occupational Therapy clinical guidelines and have a good working knowledge of relevant national standards to which quality of practice should be monitored 25. To raise Occupational Therapy staff awareness of current clinical developments and the implications these may have on clinical practice 26. To be accessible and provide expert clinical advice to colleagues in particular for highly complex case management 27. Once considered competent, to participate in week-end, bank holiday and extended working rotas where clinically appropriate 28. To fully participate in whatever pattern of working is required by the service in the future All clinical staff are accountable and responsible for their own clinical competence and responsible to RCOT and HCPC. Education, Training and Research 1. To educate patients/relatives/carers regarding the nature of the condition and the aims of Occupational Therapy intervention 2. To be responsible for maintaining own competency to practice through continuing professional development activities including reflective practice, review of current research and relevant literature, maintenance of a personal portfolio and the attendance of specialist training courses as identified within a personal development plan 3. To participate in peer review as appropriate 4. To take an active role in appropriate uniprofessional and multiprofessional research initiatives 5. To lead on teaching for all of the designated pathway staff 6. To inform, deliver and evaluate specialist in-service training programmes, to initiate implementation of new working practices 7. To prepare, co-ordinate, participate and contribute to the delivery of a specific in-service training programme for staff in the designated pathway 8. To train, assess and confirm competency of staff undertaking high risk procedures within the pathway 9. To undertake the tuition, supervision and performance assessment of undergraduate Occupational Therapy students. This will include working with universities to ensure the standard of practice and teaching meets the standards set by the degree level qualification 10. To provide specialist teaching and instruction to other disciplines to ensure a consistent approach to patient care 11. To be an educational resource and assist/support colleagues undertaking higher education, audit and research projects 12. To participate in mandatory/statutory training as required by the Trust and national standards 13. To maintain state registration with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) and to provide evidence of that registration annually upon request