Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust
Occupational Therapy Team Lead - Orthopaedics
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Job Overview
We are on a mission to improve the responsiveness and proactivity of our therapy services at the RUH. We are looking for someone who is passionate about acute Occupational Therapy in the orthopaedic setting to help us improve key aspects of our hip fracture and elective orthopaedic service.
As well as service improvement, this role includes leading a team of Physiotherapists and Occupational Therapists as well as contributing to the wider function of the Adult Therapies Department.
Main duties of the job
Demonstrable leadership experience at band 6 or equivalent is required as a minimum for this post. The successful applicant will need excellent communications skills and will need to demonstrate suitable knowledge and experience in this specialty, enabling them to work autonomously at a high level, and to provide highly specialist input within the team.
Supervision of band 6 and band 5 Occupational Therapists as well as Physiotherapists will form a key aspect of this role. Alongside the leadership aspect of this position, clinical expertise will be nurtured and developed with specialty training as required. We are looking for a keen clinician who will strive to improve the patient experience as well as ensure the safety and well-being of our staff by way of service improvement projects.
Working hours are spread from Monday-Sunday, as part of the commitment to our 7-day service, enabling a varied and flexible working week. As part of our commitment to you and your career development, we provide ongoing training opportunities both in-house and externally.
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At the RUH we put people at the heart of what we do, working together as one team to make a difference for our patients, each other, and our community. No matter what your role is, we value everyone’s contribution in supporting the exceptional, person-centred care we pride ourselves on.
We are proud to be in the top 20 best hospitals to work for in the country.
We are committed to creating a compassionate and inclusive environment. This can be seen in our growing community of staff networks – celebrating successes and creating opportunities to listen and learn. We value our differences, champion kindness and civility, and truly believe that diversity makes us stronger.
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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
Please see the attached job description and person specification for more information about the role.
Person specification
Qualifications And Training
Essential criteria
- Diploma/degree in Occupational Therapy
- HCPC registration
- Relevant examples of CPD within the past 12 months
Desirable criteria
- Membership of the RCOT
- Member of special interest group
Knowledge & experience
Essential criteria
- Advanced knowledge of broad range of conditions in specialist area such as bracing, single handed care or complex delirium post surgery
- Experience of working as part of an Occupational Therapy team and/or multi-disciplinary team within orthopedic setting
- Involvement in relevant audit, research and understanding quality issues
- Experience of supervising more junior staff/students
- Knowledge of validated assessment tools and outcome measures such as hip fracture database
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of the workings of community therapy services and intermediate care services
Values
Essential criteria
- Treats everyone as an individual
- Motivated and proactive / shows initiative
- Open to change and willing to learn
Specific skills
Essential criteria
- Competent IT skills
- To be able to present information, written or orally, in a clear and logical manner and keep accurate and legible patient notes
- To understand clinical governance and its implications for services, including experience of quality issues and audit
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Physical skills and emotional effort
Essential criteria
- To carry out assessments and treatments of patients for several periods with moderate to intense physical effort whilst carrying out concurrent activities
- To have experience of working in a stressful environment and with emotional or aggressive patients and carers
- To deal sensitively with patients who have high levels of anxiety and aggression caused by pain, dementia or limited mobility
- To be able to frequently care for critically/terminally/ chronically ill patients and deal with distressing and difficult circumstances often giving unwelcome news regarding limited expectations from rehabilitation
- To be able to work alone in domiciliary settings and during the on-call service, assessing and managing risk
Please note - Due to recent changes in UK immigration and visa rules applicants who do not currently have the right to work in the UK may not be considered unless an alternative right to work solution can be provided. Candidates requiring sponsorship (or will need sponsorship at the end of a current visa e.g. those with graduate visa's) should review the eligibility criteria on the gov.uk website before applying: Prove your right to work to an employer: Overview - GOV.UK
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
- Job Description & Person Spec - OT Team Lead - Orthopaedics (PDF, 534.9KB)
- Join the RUH (PDF, 1.3MB)
Further details / informal visits contact
Name: Natalie Ma
Job title: Deputy Head of Therapies- inpatients
Email address: n.marroney@nhs.net
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