Job summary
- Main area
- Therapies
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent: Requires weekend and bank holiday working on a rota
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 156-7280311
- Employer
- Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Treliske Hospital
- Town
- Truro
- Salary
- £46,148 - £52,809 pa pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 17/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Occupational Therapist Team Lead
Band 7
Job overview
This post is open to the Cornwall Healthcare community only.
Are you ready to take the next step in your career in a leadership role?
An exciting opportunity has arisen in our Trauma and Orthopaedics Team in the Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust for a motivated and enthusiastic Occupational Therapist with significant experience in that specialism to join the team.
Job overview:
- To provide a high standard Occupational Therapy service.
- To maintain an agreed case load within in the clinical specialism, performing advanced assessment of patients including those with highly complex presentations. To formulate diagnoses and treatment plans, as an autonomous practitioner.
- To undertake line manager duties for the team.
- To work alongside the Inpatient Therapy Manager and Trauma and Orthopaedics Therapy Lead, and the Occupational Therapy Professional Lead, in planning, co-coordinating, delivering and evaluating the service.
- To be instrumental in the on-going development of services and practices that provide high quality care and interventions.
Main duties of the job
To deliver a high standard Occupational Therapy to Trauma and Orthopaedics patients. The majority of the caseload is adults, with some paediatric patients seen.
To lead the Trauma and Orthopaedics Occupational Therapy Team, working in close collaboration with Physiotherapy Leads, Trauma and Orthopaedics Matron and MDT, and Therapy Lead for T+O.
Working for our organisation
Please see our AHP recruitment video: https://youtu.be/AAw8fv32fP8
Sustainability is integral to the Trust achieving the NHS Net Zero target. All staff are therefore actively encouraged and supported to implement new ways of working within their field of expertise.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
PLEASE NOTE: To view the full Job Description and Person Specification, please click the supporting document on the right-hand side.
To be an employee of the NHS you need to successfully complete the following:
- Identity Checks
- Professional registration and qualification checks
- Employment history and reference checks
- Occupational Health clearance
- Satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service check
- Right to work in the UK
For further information please visit:
https://www.nhsemployers.org/topics-networks/employment-standards-and-regulation
We reserve the right to close this advert early.
We may be able to offer flexible working. Please discuss at interview.
We may be able to offer sponsorship but this is not guaranteed.
Person specification
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Degree or Diploma in Occupational Therapy
- HCPC Registered
- Evidence of further formal study e.g. Postgraduate qualifications, (Postgraduate certificate/Diploma, Masters modules, or equivalent management qualification
- IELTS unless qualification in English
Desirable criteria
- Membership of relevant professional body
- Membership of relevant specific interest groups
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant post qualification experience
- Comprehensive experience of Trauma and Orthopaedics
- Ability to demonstrate highly developed leadership skills
- Proven experience of managing a service or change process
- Able to work and lead under externally applied pressures e.g. deadlines, competing demands and priorities
- Highly developed skills in managing staff, including managing challenging behaviours, emotive situations, (e.g. Attendance management, grief, illness, etc.)
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
- Name
- Sarah Turpin
- Job title
- Therapy Lead - Trauma and Orthopaedics
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07554 778 347
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