Job summary
- Main area
- Complex Rehab (Community)
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday)
- Job ref
- 160-6472241
- Employer
- The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Garswood Medical Centre (2nd floor)
- Town
- St Helens
- Salary
- £43,742 - £50,056 Per Annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 26/08/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Team Leader/Occupational Therapist
NHS AfC: Band 7
Job overview
B7 Team Lead/Occupational Therapist (Community) 37.5 or 30 hours considered, based at Garswood Clinic, St Helens
The Cheshire and Merseyside Rehabilitation Network (CMRN) is a unique collaborative integrated pathway delivered in a hub, spoke and community model providing specialist rehabilitation to patients who have suffered traumatic injury or illness dependent on need and not diagnosis.
We require a suitably skilled and experienced Occupational Therapist to uptake role of Team Leader for our St Helens and Knowsley Community Specialist Rehabilitation Team, which provides specialist inter-disciplinary rehabilitation to patients with highly complex needs. As part of our wider community service, you will also need to work in close collaboration with our other community team which covers Liverpool and Sefton.
Main duties of the job
As an established community rehabilitation specialist OT, you will oversee and coordinate the team’s work load, ensuring effective overall case-load management and patient flow. Adopting a flexible and adaptable approach, you will manage a clinical case-load, in addition to some team lead duties.
You will work autonomously, but will be supported by the team and wider service. Clinical, professional and leadership development opportunities are available via the wider service and from the wider network and organization.
Working for our organisation
The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust is the only NHS trust to hold dual accreditation for the Investors in People. We invest in people and we invest in wellbeing standards and have been awarded Gold status for both. The Walton Centre is a leader in the treatment and care of neurology and neurosurgery, placing the patient and their family at the heart of everything we do. As the only specialist hospital trust in the UK dedicated to providing comprehensive neurology, neurosurgery, spinal and pain management services we are proud to be rated as an Outstanding Trust by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), and champion change throughout the field of neuroscience. Originally formed in 1992, the Trust received Foundation Trust status in 2009.
With around 1,450 staff, The Walton Centre treats more than 127,000 outpatients and 18,000 inpatients each year. We have leading specialists and incredibly dedicated staff delivering excellent clinical outcomes for brain, spinal and neurological care nationally and internationally. Teams across our site in Fazakerley, Liverpool, offer a world-class service in diagnosing and treating injuries and illnesses affecting the brain, spine and peripheral nerves and muscles, and in supporting people suffering from a wide range of long-term neurological conditions.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the job description and person specification document for detailed information about the job description for this vacancy.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Occupational Therapy/Physiotherapy Degree or equivalent relevant professional qualification
- HCPC Registration
Desirable criteria
- MSc in relevant field or working towards
- First Line Management Certificate or other relevant leadership qualification
Knowledge and Experience
Essential criteria
- Demonstrable post-graduate experience in complex rehabilitation at specialist level including experience of neuro-rehabilitation or trauma
- Previous extensive experience of providing rehabilitation to patients with neurological and/or multiple conditions within own professional sphere of practice
- Proven clinical knowledge and experience working in a community complex rehabilitation setting and ability to demonstrate a strong working knowledge of roles of other inter-disciplinary members
- Evidenced leadership skills and abilities
- Ability to provide appropriate representation for other professional groups within team, due to development of holistic skills and understanding of other team members roles
- Ability to demonstrate effective inter-disciplinary working within an inter-disciplinary rehabilitation type setting
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of leading and implementing change
- Substantial clinical leadership experience
- Experience of leading a complex rehabilitation type team
- Experience of leading a community based specialist rehabilitation team
- Experience of working in an early supported discharge team
- Experience of managing and interpreting data
Skills and Attributes
Essential criteria
- Specialist level skills within own profession in complex/specialist rehabilitation
- Able to communicate in an effective and persuasive manner at all times even under pressure
- Excellent written and oral communication and presentational skills, with the ability to motivate and persuade both staff and patients and effectively manage conflict
- Excellent organisational skills and ability to manage and flex between different duties, both clinical and non-clinical
- Flexible approach to work ensuring minimum levels of service provision are maintained
- Ability to manage competing demands and ability to work effectively under pressure
- Able to develop reports, protocols and policies
- Evidence based in rehabilitation and experience of reflective practice
Desirable criteria
- Experience of implementing clinical audit and research practices relevant to rehabilitation
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
- Wendy Owen
- Job title
- Community Specialist Rehabilitation Service Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07929 842026
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