Job summary
- Main area
- Occupational Therapy
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Compressed hours
- Job ref
- 153-SP03108
- Employer
- University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Poole Hospital
- Town
- Poole
- Salary
- £43,742 - £50,056 pa/pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 12/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical Lead Occupational Therapist - Older Persons Services
Band 7
As University Hospitals Dorset we are a three site acute trust with ‘university hospital’ status through our partnership with Bournemouth University, working with an annual budget of £730m.
We offer highly regarded health services, employing some 10,000 staff. Our ambitious £250m estates programme is well on the way to delivering state-of-the-art facilities over the next two years to meet the current and future healthcare needs of the populations we serve.
In an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty with over seven miles of sandy beaches you’ll find inspirational opportunities to achieve your perfect work/life balance. With the New Forest and the Purbecks on our doorstep, we’re also less than three hours from London by road or train. The thriving towns of Poole, Bournemouth and Christchurch give way to idyllic villages and unspoilt landscapes just minutes from our hospitals.
We believe that having a diverse workforce, and allowing people to be themselves, is essential in ensuring we offer an inclusive, welcoming and productive place to work.
We especially welcome applications from minority groups in the community who may be underrepresented in our workforce.
At UHD our active staff network groups are the Women's Network, Black Asian Minority Ethnic Group (BAME), Pride Network, European (EU), Pro Ability Staff Network, and the Armed Forces Support Group.
As a Trust we are proudly signed up to the Disability Confident and Armed Forces Covenant guaranteed interview schemes.
Job overview
We are looking for an experienced Occupational Therapist; with a clinical interest in Older Persons Services; to join the Therapy Clinical Leadership Team in the Older Persons Therapy Service at University Hospital Dorset, currently based on the Bournemouth Site.
We are pleased to announce an exciting opportunity for a permanent, full time Band 7 Clinical Lead Occupational Therapist, specialising in the needs of Older People living with frailty associated conditions. We are extremely proud of our service and hope to inspire you to come and join our team!
This is a fantastic opportunity where you will be encouraged and supported to develop your existing extended Occupational Therapy skills with our highly regarded, innovative and motivated therapy team. You will be supported to develop your leadership and managerial skills, as well as your quality improvement (QI) skills to lead projects developing the services for the future. You will work with other Clinical Leads and Clinical Specialist Therapists across UHD as part of a collaborative leadership model for Older Persons Services to support the whole team more widely.
This role requires HCPC Registration.
Base Location: Bournemouth Hospital
Interview Date: TBC
Main duties of the job
This role will have a strong clinical focus and as such we are looking for a confident clinician who can develop skills within the team. This post holder will also need to build close links with the multidisciplinary team to ensure we continue to deliver excellent care for our patients and develop expertise in our workforce beyond therapy.
The role will include line management of staff and the post holder will also have an opportunity to develop leadership and people management skills and will need excellent organisational, communication and management skills.
This is an ideal opportunity for you to positively influence patient care if you have:
- Clinical expertise working with patients with complex needs and frailty
- Effective leadership skills
- Motivation to develop services putting the patient first
This post includes 7 day working and therefore the post holder will be expected to participate in weekend working . The post holder must be a car driver and ideally will have access to a car for work purposes.
Working for our organisation
Our values define who we are as #TeamUHD. They underpin everything we do now and in the future. They define how we treat our patients, visitors, and each other, our valued team mates and colleagues.
UHD are investing in services across the Trust, with many being transformed and developed following merger and the New Hospital Programme.
This means that some services may move site this year or next, either temporarily or long term. Recruiting Managers interviewing for this role will be happy to answer any specific questions that you have at interview.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To understand the role in more detail please read the full job description and person specification documents which are attached to this advert.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- BSc (Hons) or equivalent in Occupational Therapy
- HCPC Registration
Desirable criteria
- Member of Professional Body RCOT
Experience
Essential criteria
- A minimum of 4 years’ postgraduate OT experience, including 2 years working as a Band 6 with patients with complex needs
- Experience of working within an Acute Inpatient environment (or similar system)
Desirable criteria
- Clinical Leadership Experience
- Involvement in sickness/disciplinary/capability management
Technical Skills / Competencies
Essential criteria
- Advanced Clinical Reasoning Skills
- Ability to assess, manage & treat patients with complex conditions
- Leadership and management skills
- Audit and research skills
- Able to work autonomously within a MDT taking the lead Occupational Therapy role
Desirable criteria
- Excellent IT skills
- Excellent presentation skills
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- In-depth understanding of the pathology of conditions leading to admissions in the elderly
- In-depth understanding of Silver book, NSF’s and Department of Health Strategies including the five year forward view within older person’s healthcare and their relevance to clinical situations.
- Advanced knowledge of risk factors for Parkinson’s Disease, Dementia, Stroke, Falls and Osteoporosis.
- Ability to advise & assist others in admission avoidance/early supported discharge at a specialist level
- In-depth understanding of intermediate care and rehabilitation of older people
- Ability to move and handle patients and equipment and work in confined spaces
- Clear vision of role
- Ability to discuss with stakeholders, regarding policy & service provision and development
Other requirements specific to role
Essential criteria
- Ability to drive and hold a clean driver’s license and car available for work.
- Ability to use a keyboard to access and input information from a computer-based system
Desirable criteria
- Ability to use tools to adjust equipment & furniture.
Personal Attributes
Essential criteria
- Supportive of staff/team members.
- Adaptive to unpredictable workloads.
- Situational awareness and management of self and others
- Problem solving and decision-making skills.
Language
Essential criteria
- Able to speak English as necessary to undertake the 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
- Name
- Becky Godden
- Job title
- Therapy Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
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