Occupational Therapist

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Job Overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic Occupational Therapist to co-lead our specialist inpatient team providing a service to Trauma & Orthopaedics. The role is based at Southmead Hospital and will encompass major trauma and other acute orthopaedic injuries.

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Main duties of the job

You will be sharing the role of team lead, alongside another established Band 7 colleague, within the MSK pathway.

The orthopaedic trauma service deals with unplanned orthopaedic needs and accepts a wide range of emergencies from local fractures to complex polytrauma. We are one of two designated Major Trauma Centres in South West England and provide adult services for the Severn region.

The caseload is interesting and challenging with provision of early assessment and intervention to address occupational needs, prevention of complications and progression from hospital to home. This requires a range of therapeutic skills and knowledge.

There is close team working and links within the network and wider system to address needs at all stages of the clinical pathway, with occupational therapy playing a crucial role.

The role will support the MSK pathway lead to deliver an occupational therapy service within the specialty. This includes day to day operational management of the team and responsibility for a specialist clinical caseload within inpatient trauma & orthopaedics.

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Working for our organisation

North Bristol NHS Trust is a great place to work. Situated in the vibrant city of Bristol is our award-winning building opened in 2014, offering exceptional facilities for patients and staff. We are a large teaching Trust that provides multiple specialties including regional services for neurosciences, major trauma, orthopaedics and surgery (major arterial centre and burns & plastics).

There is both peer and senior support within the pathway and wider service. Various professional development opportunities and training courses are available, with quality improvement projects and service development ideas actively encouraged. Additional benefits include award schemes for excellence, staff restaurants, green spaces and an extensive well being programme.

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
Provide and develop a highly specialist Occupational Therapy service to patients within specialty area, providing advanced clinical leadership and acting as a clinical advisor for the specialty to occupational therapists working in North Bristol NHS Trust.

Work as an autonomous and highly skilled clinician, without supervision, and be accountable for own professional actions managing a caseload of adult patients with complex needs, using advanced clinical reasoning, critical thinking, evidence-based principles, and best practice to assess, plan, implement and evaluate interventions.

Provide leadership and line management for a specialist occupational therapy service to adult patients, ensuring service provision is prioritised across the specialty team and service delivery is effective within resources available. This is to be done within the parameters of all relevant legislation, national and local policies, procedures, standards, and guidelines.

Ensure staff in the team are supervised and developed, and deal with staffing issues as they arise.

Provide specialist input, strong professional leadership, and direction to the specialty team in the planning, co-ordination and evaluation of the occupational therapy service and assist the occupational therapy manager in the strategic development of the service.

Provide training and education to other health care professionals.

Contribute to the maintenance and development of the Trust wide Occupational Therapy service, leading initiatives related to service development such as audit, research, and training.

Provide highly specialist clinical and service development advice, and act as a specialist resource within the occupational therapy service.

Contribute to undergraduate occupational therapy education and regularly supervise students on practice placement.

Provide specialist input and professional leadership in service development projects within specialty, representing the Occupational Therapy service.

Person specification

Qualifications
Essential criteria

• Degree in Occupational Therapy (or equivalent)
• HCPC Registration
• Student Educator - experience/qualification (or within one year)

Desirable criteria

• Post Graduate Training/CPD relevant to specialty
• Basic Management/Leadership Training

Work Experience

Essential criteria

• Post registration specialty experience
• Experience in using range of assessments relevant to specialty
• Experience of supervising staff

Desirable criteria

• Experience of research or audit

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities
Essential criteria

• Effective written skills
• Digital skills
• Knowledge of OT process within specialty evidenced by CPD record

Desirable criteria

• Splinting skills

Personal Qualities

Desirable criteria

• Membership of RCOT

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The successful applicant(s) will normally commence at the minimum of the scale unless they have previous NHS service at the same band. Progression through the scale is by annual increments.

At North Bristol Trust (NBT), we know diverse and inclusive environments lead to happier and healthier teams and improved patient care and outcomes. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where we all belong. We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are currently underrepresented in NBT's workforce at Band 8a and above. These include people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, disabled people and LGBTQIA+ people.

Please note that stringent pre-employment checks are undertaken on all successful applicants prior to commencement in post.