Job summary
- Main area
- Occupational Therapy
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Compressed hours
- Job ref
- 180-B-243296
- Employer
- Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Addenbrookes Hospital-Division B
- Town
- Cambridge
- Salary
- £46,148 - £52,809 p.a. pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 25/11/2024 23:59
- Interview date
- 04/12/2024
Employer heading
Advanced Specialist Occupational Therapist for Amputees
Band 7
Job overview
An exciting new opportunity has arisen in the Occupational Therapy department for an amputee specialist.
We are seeking an experienced Occupational Therapist to work with a highly specialised amputee rehabilitation service in an inpatient setting.
This role will allow you to develop a long term vision for the amputee Therapy team and to develop the service in a way that reflects that vision including the regional hub model.
The role involves close working with the MDT as well as senior leaders within the division. There will also be close working with senior leadership in Occupational Therapy with the opportunity to deliver the OT strategy and vision.
The Occupational Therapy department offers opportunities to take part in a research symposium and opportunities for innovation in an ever changing environment.
There are ample leadership development opportunities. You will supervise and appraise members of the team and support the development of junior staff.
Main duties of the job
To provide highly specialised acute and early rehabilitation to Amputee patients including pre-operative assessments.
To provide outreach support for Amputee patients within the hospital.
To support and work alongside other members of the Occupational Therapy team and ensure delivery of the highest possible standard of service; including teaching of less experienced staff and students.
To work alongside team leads in planning, coordinating, delivering and evaluating the Occupational Therapy service on a day-to-day basis.
To be an integral part of the highly specialised amputee rehabilitation service. Working alongside the amputee multidisciplinary team, including Consultants, specialist Nurses and specialist AHPs.
To develop a long term vision for the amputee Therapy team and to develop the service in a way that reflects that vision including the regional hub model.
Working for our organisation
Our Trust
Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH) NHS Foundation Trust comprises Addenbrooke’s Hospital and the Rosie Hospital in Cambridge. With over 13,000 staff and over 1100 beds the priorities of the Trust focus on a quality service which is all about people – patients, staff and partners. Recognised as providing ‘outstanding’ care to our patients and rated ‘Good’ overall by the Care Quality Commissioner, is testament to the skill and dedication of the people who work here. CUH’s values – Together - Safe, Kind, Excellent – are at the heart of patient care, defining the way all staff work and behave. The Trust provides accessible high-quality healthcare for the local people of Cambridge, together with specialist services, dealing with rare or complex conditions for a regional, national and international population.
CUH is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community - a place where we can all be ourselves. We value our differences and fully advocate and support an inclusive working environment where every individual can fulfil their potential. We want to ensure our people are truly representative of all the communities that we serve. We welcome applications for all positions in the organisation irrespective of people’s age, disability, ethnicity, race, nationality, gender identity, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership status, or pregnancy and maternity status or social economic background.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached Applicant Information Pack (combined Job Description and Person Specification) for key duties and responsibilities.
Due to Home Office immigration rules, a full time permanent vacancy cannot be filled by individuals on a Student visa. Therefore, please be advised that if you are a Student visa holder, we will not be able to offer you a full time permanent contract unless you have:
- applied for a Graduate visa
- or you will have successfully completed your course and have applied for a Graduate visa before the anticipated start date of your employment
- or the Trust has agreed that they will Sponsor you as a Skilled Worker and you will complete your studies within 3 months of the anticipated start date of employment
The advert will close at midnight on 25 November 2024.
Interviews are due to be held on 4 December 2024.
Benefits to you
At Cambridge University Hospitals, we want to do all we can to support good working days. We offer development opportunities and a wide range of benefits, including on-site leisure facilities, shopping concourse and day nurseries. Our good work programme currently includes providing reduced cost Stagecoach bus travel to and from Cambridge University Hospital site. Park and Ride bus journeys between Babraham Road and Trumpington sites are free, as is the route to and from Cambridge train station and our hospitals. We also subsidise the cost of parking on site for eligible staff.
On CUH campus, hot food is available 24/7 and at a reduced cost for colleagues. Recently we launched the first of our staff pod break spaces. Located in the Deakin Centre, we have a purpose-created colleague-only café, with free tea and coffee, a break space and private outside area for colleagues to rest, refuel and recharge. Just one of the ways we are working hard to support good working days at CUH.
CUH is committed to assisting employees in achieving a good work-life balance irrespective of role or personal circumstances. Flexible arrangements may include, but are not limited to, part-time working, job-share, term-time working and flexible start and finish times.
Please note if you would like to discuss the required hours of this role further, you should approach the contact given. In some cases, alternative working hours will be considered.
We welcome applications from the Armed Forces.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Occupational Therapist registered with Health and Social Care Professions Council
- Degree or Diploma of Occupational Therapy
- Practise placement student educator
- Evidence of relevant C.P.D in line with HCPC guidelines
- Working to a level of expertise, knowledge and judgement commensurate with MSc
Desirable criteria
- Member of R.C.O.T.
- Evidence of further study / research in clinical specialty
- Member of relevant Special Interest
- Group / Specialist section
- Evidence of management / leadership training
- MSc Level qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant recent experience in Amputees
- Substantial experience at Band 6 level demonstrating a broad range of experience, including acute hospital and a wide range of rotations
- Close working with Multi-disciplinary team
- Experience of supervising Occupational Therapy staff / students
- Leadership experience
- Manual handling experience with complex patients
- Experience of dealing with people who display challenging behaviours
- Teaching experience
Desirable criteria
- Experience of developing services
- Experience of performance management
- Experience working in Community settings
- Experience of adult rehabilitation
- Experience of conducting recruitment and selection procedure
- Experience at Band 7 level
- Experience of lower and upper limb prosthetic rehabilitation
- Experience in pain management
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Extensive knowledge of Amputee rehabilitation and the role of occupational therapy
- Awareness of current research with regards to assessment and treatment of Amputee patients
- Knowledge and understanding of complex rehabilitation processes
- Knowledge of the splinting, wheelchair assessment, therapeutic handling and discharge planning
- Knowledge of relevant governmental guidelines
- Knowledge of service evaluation and development
- Understanding of legal responsibilities of the profession, e.g. RCOT and HCPC guidelines and codes of ethic and professional conduct
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of developing services
- Audit cycle
Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to demonstrate highly developed therapeutic handling
- Able to demonstrate empathy, motivate and persuade patients with impaired cognitive abilities or physical senses
- Advanced communication skills in conversing with patients with impaired communication
- Skills in sensitive and empathetic communication
- A proven ability to communicate with system wide partners regarding complex patients (both written and verbal)
- An ability to work collaboratively with other colleagues and the wider MDT
- Leadership skills
- Advanced clinical reasoning skills with the ability to maintain judgement under pressure
- Skills in personal and team development with an ability to motivate self and others
- Teaching and presentation skills
- Excellent organisation skills
- To be highly competent in all stages of the OT process
Desirable criteria
- Skills in delivering change
- Skills in service development
Additional Requirements
Essential criteria
- The ability to understand and behave at all times, towards patients, visitors and colleagues according to the Trust values of Safe, Kind, Excellent.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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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
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Molly Alberezanchi
- Job title
- Occupational Therapy Divisional Service Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01223 596205
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