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Job summary

Main area
Occupational Therapist
Grade
Band 6
Contract
Permanent: Rotations are cross-site between QMC and City Hospital campuses. Role includes participation in weekend working rota - every 6-8 weeks
Hours
  • Full time
  • Part time
37.5 hours per week (Participation in weekend working rota - every 6-8 weeks)
Job ref
164-6195158
Employer
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
City Hospital Campus (rotation is cross-site with QMC)
Town
Nottingham
Salary
£35,392 - £42,618 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
06/05/2024 23:59

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Senior Occupational Therapist - Medicine rotation

Band 6

Job overview

Do you have a passion for working within the Medicine specialities to use all your specialist skills? Come and be a part of our friendly and progressive Band 6 Medicine Rotation. Specialist areas include Healthcare of Older People, Medicine-Oncology, and Medicine-Surgery teams across both sites. 

You will hold a complex caseload and offer assessment, treatment and creative rehabilitation of patients with complex physical and cognitive needs. You will be involved in delivering an OT service to help patients manage their own conditions through education, symptom management and intervention, enabling them to be discharged from hospital.

Rotations offer Band 6 staff exciting opportunities to develop knowledge, skills and experience across wide-ranging specialties including but not exclusive to palliative and long term conditions, neurological and cognitive deficits, surgical and orthopaedic interventions and amputees. Medicine is the perfect speciality to develop and maintain all of your skills.

You will have excellent communication skills, and a wide range of clinical skills and experience. You will have opportunity to participate in service development to progress patient care.  

At NUH we have a strong focus to support your career aspirations. These can be discussed in your 1:1 supervision. We have an excellent leadership prospectus at NUH; Band 6 development groups including peer supervision sessions and access to our practice development team. 

Main duties of the job

Please refer to job description and person specification for full details. Within your role, duties will include but may not be limited to:

  • Working as part of multidisciplinary teams on a variety of wards.
  • Assessing and treating patients as appropriate in the relevant areas. (i.e. dementia, Parkinson's, amputees, palliative care)
  • Providing planned and unplanned care.
  • Managing complex discharges including assisting patients to manage their own long term conditions and provide rehabilitation.
  • Providing supervision to more junior staff (including Band 5, support and student members of staff) including appraisals, training and placements.
  • Deputising for Band 7 team leader as appropriate.
  • Working flexibly - including working rostered weekends/bank holidays.
  • Working alongside Band 7’s and other seniors in the team to develop service in line with evidence based practice and lead on projects.
  • Supporting development of the rotation through evaluation, joint working and peer support.
  • Enhancing your own CPD and career development

Working for our organisation

With over 17,000 staff, we are one of the biggest employers in the city with a central role in supporting the health and wellbeing of our local population. We play a leading role in research, education and innovation.

Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at NUH we will endeavor to turn your job into a career! 

The Occupational Therapy service is part of the Therapies and Rehabilitation Services pathway, which is one of the pathways that together make up the Clinical Support Division at NUH. We are a diverse pathway of AHPs and support staff, employing over 800 staff, who works together to deliver the high quality care we aspire to. Our HCPC registered AHP professionals comprise of dietitians, occupational therapists, orthotists and prosthetists, physiotherapists, and speech and language therapists. We have a Chief AHP to lead us on our strategic direction, and many of the pathway leadership team have pathway AHP backgrounds to support our staff. There are also Practice Development Therapists to support career development for all.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

We are keen to work with you to develop your skills, and welcome interest from current Band 5 OTs.  We will ensure you are well supported as you step into a Band 6 role, with supervision, practice development and peer support.

 

The successful applicant will demonstrate excellent core OT skills and a willingness to  learn and develop further, both clinically and professionally.  You will demonstrate an ability to work autonomously and provide support to less experienced members of the team, including students and support workers. The successful candidate will demonstrate the ability to work flexibly to support the needs of the service.

 

Please refer to job description and person specification for further information.

Person specification

Training & Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • • Diploma or degree in Occupational Therapy
  • • HCPC registration as an Occupational Therapist
  • • Able to maintain a professional portfolio for CPD, recording learning outcomes through participation in internal and external development opportunities

Experience

Essential criteria
  • • Experience of working within an acute inpatient setting
  • • Experience of using evidenced based practice to inform own practice and that of others

Communication and relationship skills

Essential criteria
  • • Able to discuss treatment options and recommend best course of intervention to patients and carers using negotiating, persuasive, motivational and reassurance skills
  • • Able to communicate patient related information effectively to ensure collaborative working with MDT colleagues across health & social care sectors.
  • • Able to effectively use a range of written and verbal communication skills with patients to progress rehabilitation and treatment programmes. This will include patients who may have difficulties in understanding or communicating eg. Patients may be dysphasic, deaf, who may be unable to accept diagnosis or have terminal illness

Analytical and judgement skills

Essential criteria
  • • Able to reflect and critically appraise own performance and the performance of junior OT staff and support staff
  • • Risk assessment skills for the safe management and discharge of complex wheelchair patients
  • • Independently work through the OT process with patients requiring a permanent wheelchair

Planning and organisation skills

Essential criteria
  • • Able to plan own clinical activity to meet clinical needs of patients when demand exceeds capacity
  • • Able to make judgements about the prioritising of caseloads when demand exceeds capacity and to support junior and support staff in this process

Physical skills

Essential criteria
  • • Able to handle and move complex patients safely and in a way which promotes safe wheelchair positioning, maximising patient ability

Other requirements specific to

Essential criteria
  • • Flexibility to work elsewhere in Therapies or as required across both campuses
  • • Flexible working schedules including participation in weekend rosters where required

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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

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Rhianne Hayward
Job title
Advanced Practitioner Occupational Therapist
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
07812 269716
Additional information

Alternatively, please contact Lauren Hodgetts, HCOP OT team leader on [email protected] // 07812 277879.

 

We would love to hear from you if you are interested, and would be happy to arrange a phonecall, video call or informal visit - please get in touch!

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