Team Lead Occupational Therapist

6 days ago


Carshalton, Greater London, United Kingdom Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust Full time

Job overview

We are looking for a motivated and enthusiastic Band 6 Physiotherapist to work as part of the Sutton Health and Care Reablement Unit Team. The Reablemement unit provides an inpatient rehabilitation service for service users within South West London. Post holders will be working as part of an integrated multidisciplinary team including nurses, occupational therapists, physiotherapists, social workers, rehabilitation assistants, healthcare assistants and administrators, as well as the voluntary sector. The post holder will be based on the inpatient reablement unit, with some community visits providing rehabilitation over a 7 day period.

Main duties of the job

To work as a key member of the multidisciplinary team in the assessment and management of a caseload of clients. To plan, deliver and evaluate the treatment needs of clients with a variety of complex social and health care needs. To participate as an active member of the multidisciplinary team in developing and delivering high quality and innovative services to the local population within South West London. To promote effective teamwork within the Sutton Health and Care Reablement Unit, delegating activities appropriately, to the benefit of the service users and service delivery. As a therapist within Sutton Health and Care there will be the opportunity to work closely alongside and potentially rotate into other sectors of the organisation, such the rapid response hospital hub (the Emergency Department, Acute Medical Unit and Acute wards of St Helier Hospital), rapid response community and intermediate care (home based care). The expectations within this job description will be achieved through hands-on clinical practice, education and training and research. To supervise junior colleagues and assistants

Working for our organisation

Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust provides a range of medical services to approximately 490,000 people living across southwest London and northeast Surrey. In addition, we provide more specialist services, in particular renal and neonatal intensive care, to a wider area, covering parts of Sussex and Hampshire.

We serve an area that is rich in diversity, with a mix of urban and rural areas, and differing levels of quality of life. We cover some of the most prosperous postcodes in the country, as well as some poorer areas. Together with our colleagues at NHS Surrey and NHS Sutton and Merton, we work to make sure that we deliver the best possible care to the communities we serve.

The Trust employs approximately 5,000 staff across its hospitals and is supported by over 500 volunteers.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached supporting Job description/Person Specification documents which contains more information about the role

Person specification

Qualifications and training

Essential criteria

Diploma/Degree in Physiotherapy Relevant postgraduate qualifications HCPC Registration

Desirable criteria

Clinical educators course

Experience

Essential criteria

Post graduate experience covering core rotations including respiratory, ortho, elderly care Experience of service development and change management Experience of working with junior staff and support workers Experience of conducting appraisals for junior staff

Desirable criteria

Experience of clinical teaching

Skills and knowledge

Essential criteria

Ability to work autonomously Ability to demonstrate ongoing CPD and the use of evidence based practice Effective written and spoken communication skills Realistic about ability and can seek help appropriately

Values

Essential criteria

Always taking opportunities to improve, encouraging excellence. Work as one team – communicate, collaborate and share.

Other

Essential criteria

Valid driving licence

Desirable criteria

Access to car for work purposes

Your application : Please ensure that you have read the job description and person specification and that your supporting statement reflects these, as your application will be assessed and scored against these criteria.

References : You will be required to provide 3 years of employment/educational history. We do not accept references from personal email addresses such as Hotmail, Gmail etc. therefore please ensure you are providing professional working email addresses within your application form. If you are unable to provide professional email addresses and are invited to an interview, please ensure you advise the interviewers of this - otherwise, this may delay your pre-employment checks.

Closing date : In order to streamline recruitment within our Trust, we reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications.

Shortlisting : You will only be contacted via e-mail/SMS by the SWL Recruitment Hub if you are successfully shortlisted for this post. Please ensure that you check your Trac registered e-mail regularly.

DBS : We are committed to safeguarding children and adults who are at risk of abuse. As such, if this post will have access to children or vulnerable adults, you will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check. However, all employees have a responsibility for safeguarding children and vulnerable adults in the course of their duties and for ensuring that they are aware of the specific duties relating to their role.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

Further details / informal visits contact

NameSophie CharmanJob titleHighly specialist PhysiotherapistEmail addressTelephone number Additional information

Jo Carr

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