Specialist Occupational Therapist or

3 weeks ago

Oldham, United Kingdom NHS Professionals Full time

**Job Title: Highly Specialist Occupational Therapist or Physiotherapist -Hand Therapy**

**Band**:Agenda for Change Band 7

**Reports to**:Line Manager

**Responsible to**:Operational & Professional Lead

**Base/Department**:Occupational Therapy Department

**ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES**

**Communication**

- Ensure regular meetings are held and attended by self and team, including:

- monthly speciality team meetings
- monthly OT staff meetings
- peer support meetings
- patient related meetings
- ward handover meetings
- champions update meetings
- Chair speciality team meetings and deputise for site lead in chairing other delegated meetings
- Attend and feedback team talk as required
- Represent OT at complex clinical and project group meetings
- Maintain links with partner organisations to enable efficient working relationships
- Deal with difficult patient/staff/MDT issues as they arise
- Ensure own and team effective and defensible documentation to COT and Trust standards
- Promote a positive and efficient image of the service within own and wider team
- Ensure your team provides effective advice, information and support for patients and carers
- Ensure staff, patients and carers are aware of the role of OT within own speciality area
- Challenge inappropriate referrals to the service, support staff to follow more appropriate pathways
- Overcome barriers to communication by altering style and format
- Feedback to others on their communication skills to aid effective team working
**Personal and People Development**

- Maintain up to date evidence of learning activities undertaken
- Undertake effective reflection on day to day practice, directed reading and training
- Change and improve practice as a result of new learning
- Maintain own mandatory training compliance at 100% and team compliance above 95%
- Prepare well and effectively participate in supervision and appraisal sessions
- Identify and arrange training to meet own and teams learning needs
- Meet own identified learning needs in a timely manner
- Ensure effective/timely supervision and appraisal for team
- Ensure frequency of supervision meets the needs of new and struggling staff
- Ensure timely and efficient induction for new starters and rotating staff
- Provide training and advice for the wider team on own speciality area
- Feedback new learning in order to share effectively with the wider team
- Ensure own and others completion of band specific and speciality based competency requirements, in agreed timescales
- Participate and undertake observed practice sessions, using and providing constructive feedback to develop practice.
- Ensure timely end of rotation summaries are completed and fed back to staff
**Health Safety & Security**

- Request support from other areas when unable to maintain safe staffing level in own team
- Provide support for absences in service, to maintain effective team working on own and other Pennine sites
- Escalate unresolved staffing issues to site lead in timely manner
- Delegate for site lead in reviewing staffing levels and releasing to support others sites as required
- Identify risk to staff or patient safety, take immediate action and escalate to site lead in timely manner
- Produce risk assessments for the service as required
- Effective incident and near miss reporting
- Investigate and action incidents as required
- Ensure the team follow daily safety procedures e.g locking up and lone working
- Be aware of and follow emergency procedures e.g. Fire, CPR and falls
**Service Improvement**

- Maintain own and team knowledge and adherence to clinical guidelines/pathways that affect practice in own speciality, these may include:

- Preventing Falls
- Home Visits
- Amputees
- Cognitive assessment and Intervention
- Psychosocial assessment and intervention
- Equipment provision
- Hoist assessment and provision
- Maintain own and team up to date knowledge of Trust policy and protocols affecting speciality team practice
- Lead and complete projects to bring about change in own team, to agreed timescales
- Communicate speciality changes to site lead in a timely manner
- Positively support service change and embed into own and team practice
- Be aware of good practice examples locally/nationally for own speciality area
- Identify areas of service need and suggest ideas for improvement
- Encourage team to suggest service improvement initiatives
- Utilise patient and carer feedback in implementing and identifying need for service change
- Be an active participant in the band 7 peer support group
- Lead in developing speciality guidelines and protocols
- Contribute to the development of OT policies and procedures
**Quality**

- Have an awareness of Trust and OT service objectives
- Demonstrate an awareness of and adherence to OT Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for self and team
- Demonstrate behaviours in line with Trust values
- Undertake COT and speciality based audits
- Manage and escalate formal and informal complaints appropriately, in accordance with Trust policy
- Monitor own and team caseload management and escalate areas of concern appropriately
- Ensure effective prioritisation of own and team caseload
- Ensure no avoidable OT delays to discharge within own and line managed staff caseload
- Escalate any risk of OT delays appropriately and timely
- Ensure own and team adherence to Trust, OT, COT and HPCP policies, standards and guidelines
- Ensure own and team adherence to Professional Code of Conduct
- Monitor and maintain own effective use of resources, raising issues for the wider team
- Participate in and prepare for the annual OT service peer review
- Ensure effective measurement of outcomes for service provision.

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