Band 7 Clinical Specialist Occupational Therapist - Acute Medicine
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 28 Tachwedd 2025 |
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| Cyflog: | £47,810.00 i £54,710.00 bob blwyddyn |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £47810.00 - £54710.00 a year |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 07 Rhagfyr 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Gorleston, NR31 6LA |
| Cwmni: | NHS Jobs |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | C9177-25-0455 |
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Please see the attached Job Description for more details of the main duties and responsibilities of the role. To plan, co-ordinate, deliver and evaluate the Therapy Service (Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy) provided to acute medicine patients including patients with multi-pathology, respiratory conditions, palliative care needs, MS, cardiac and orthopaedic conditions, and bariatric patients throughout the Trust, on a day-to-day basis. This includes ensuring the teams workload is appropriately prioritised and work is effectively distributed and co-ordinated across the team on a day-by-day basis To undertake comprehensive assessment of patients, including those with a complex presentation, using investigative, analytical and advanced clinical reasoning skills, and to formulate individualised management and treatment plans, and utilising a wide range of treatment skills and options to formulate a specialised programme of care and complex discharge planning and maintaining own records as an autonomous practitioner, prioritising own workload alongside the demands of the team To be professionally and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of own work including a high standard of clinical care for the patients under your management and assist junior staff, support staff and students To communicate effectively with patients and carers to maximise rehabilitation potential and to ensure understanding of condition. Communication skills of persuasion, motivation, explanation, and gaining informed consent will be used with a variety of patients. Barriers to effective communication will regularly be evident, e.g. loss of hearing, altered perception, expressive and receptive dysphasia, pain and fear. Many patients will lack the capacity to consent To be responsible for priority cases as delegated outside the scope of current post, when departmental pressures dictate (i.e. staff shortages) and to co-ordinate junior staff to do the same To undertake the measurement and evaluation of your work and current practices through the use of evidence-based practice projects, audit and outcome measures, either individually or with the therapy or multidisciplinary team. Make recommendations for change To take a lead role in training, supervising and performance management of more junior therapy staff, assistant practitioners, assistants and undergraduate/MSc students. This will include formal appraisal To take a leading role in service development To assume line management responsibility for selected staff including recruitment, managing attendance and wellbeing, performance, capability and disciplinary, and to take the lead role in the staff appraisal scheme for team members To assist the Professional Leads for Occupational Therapy and the Integrated Therapies Clinical Lead in development of the Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy Service, accepting additional roles such as representing the Integrated Therapies Department in Trust initiatives To demonstrate a sound understanding of clinical governance and risk management and apply to the work situation To be responsible for and maintain own Clinical Professional Development (CPD), actively reading around any updates/developments and incorporate them as necessary into your work To work a rostered seven-day service within the James Paget University Hospital or in a community health setting as required Please watch the following videos for an insight into our Integrated Therapies Department: Landscape version: https://youtu.be/tklpzav7UrU. Portrait version:https://youtube.com/shorts/U4lwU9T1wKA?feature=share