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    Specialist Community Lead - London, United Kingdom - Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust

    Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust
    Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust London, United Kingdom

    2 weeks ago

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    Highly Specialist Paediatric Occupational Therapy Team Lead
    Employer Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust Location London Salary £43,742 to £50,056 per annum plus HCAS pro rata Closing date 2 Jun 2024

    An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our occupational therapy team as the Paediatric Occupational Therapy Team Lead .You will work closely with the Paediatric physiotherapy team and as part of the wider MDT across the paediatric wards including the newly opened level 2 HDU beds .

    The Trust is currently developing our same day emergency care service and now is an exciting time to join us at Queen Elizabeth.

    The Elizabeth Line has also greater enhanced transport links with the hospital and is now only a short journey away from Central London.

    This post is suitable for a new or developing band 7.

    This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Occupational Therapist to lead the Paediatric OT service at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Woolwich.

    Applicants should be committed to help developing and delivering a high quality service based on your knowledge of evidence based practice and clinical governance.

    As the team lead, you will also be responsible for supervision, training and development of the team, as well as contributing to departmental and Trust improvements.

    Service development and audit (to evidence efficiency and efficacy) are essential and as such experience in this field crucial.

    The successful applicant will be supervised by Lead OT to ensure they are supported in their role and professional development.

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    Our people are our greatest asset.

    Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement.

    We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:

    Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
    Improving the experience of staff with disability
    Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development

    The Highly Specialist Paediatric Occupational Therapy Lead provides professional and clinical leadership to Therapy staff in this team based at the QEH site.

    The post holder supervises the day to day running of the paediatric therapy team and is line managed by the Occupational Therapy Site Lead at QEH.

    To achieve this, the post holder works in close collaboration with internal and community multidisciplinary colleagues, the OT Site Lead QEH, and the other Band 7 Occupational Therapy Team Leads.

    The Highly Specialist Paediatric Occupational Therapist Lead is a highly experienced clinician in paediatric care who independently manages a significant and highly specialised clinical caseload working to support assessment and discharge to community partners as required, supporting patient flow.

    As part of the senior clinical Occupational Therapy team on the QEH site, the post holder will deputise for the Occupational Therapy Site Lead QEH as required.

    GPs, Community Services, Social services, Local authorities, AHP managers and leads, Voluntary services, College of Occupational Therapists, Health professions council, DoH Networks and Policy Groups, Higher Education Institutes, Colleges and Schools

    This will include the management of clinical risk, clinical governance, knowledge of indications and precautions of chosen techniques in line with National and Trust clinical guidelines and protocols where they exist.

    To assess patients capacity, gain valid informed consent to treatment and where such capacity is lacking/absent to work within a legal framework in the management of the patient
    To formulate individualised clinical management programmes, utilising a wide range of treatment skills and options to plan a highly-specialised programme of care

    To use recognised outcome measures to evaluate the effect of Occupational Therapy interventions and ensure that treatment programmes are progressing appropriately.

    To promote understanding of the aims of Occupational Therapy and to ensure continuation of the treatment programme.

    To participate in and where indicated, initiate multidisciplinary/multi-agency team meetings and case conferences to ensure the co-ordination of patient care.

    This may include the review of patient progress and discharge planning
    To ensure accurate, comprehensive and up to date clinical records are maintained in accordance with Trust guidance and professionally agreed criteria
    To ensure that individual practice and that of the pathway team is user focused and patient views are incorporated into treatment planning
    To communicate with empathy, patient information which may be of a complex and sensitive nature including details of prognosis or disability that may be unwelcome
    To receive highly complex patient related information from patients, relatives, carers and other professionals to effectively plan and develop individual case management
    To communicate and advise regarding highly complex patient related information effectively to ensure collaborative working within the Occupational Therapy service and with other professionals across health and other agencies to ensure the delivery of a coordinated multidisciplinary service
    To be integral in discharge planning including liason with referring hospitals or community staff to which patients are discharged, providing timely discharge reports

    To apply a high level of knowledge and understanding of the neurodevelopmental needs, atypical movement patterns and conditions within paediatrics.

    To identify and initiate audit projects to review current clinical practice within the pathway
    To lead the implementation and evaluation of Trust wide Occupational Therapy clinical outcomes within a designated pathway and monitor adherence with professional and national standards
    To work to Trust and British Association of Occupational Therapy clinical guidelines and have a good working knowledge of relevant national standards to which quality of practice should be monitored
    To raise Occupational Therapy staff awareness of current clinical developments and the implications these may have on clinical practice
    To be accessible and provide expert clinical advice to colleagues in particular for highly complex case management
    Diploma / Degree in Occupational Therapy.
    Undertaken a range of relevant postgraduate courses
    Undertaken clinical educators training

    Undertaken appropriate managerial training

    Wide ranging post graduate Occupational Therapy experience including having held senior position in relevant speciality
    Experience in leading and completing audit and evidence based projects.
    Experience of supervision and appraisal of Occupational Therapy staff and students with ability to give constructive feedback and performance management when necessary
    Evidence of actively participating in in-service training and presenting to large MDT groups, undergraduate and postgraduate staff and evaluating effectiveness of training
    Evidence of leading change management and innovation in clinical practice

    Previous experience at band 7 Level
    Actively involved in developing research links with other academic institutions
    Evidence of presenting to MDT groups, undergraduate and postgraduate staff

    Extensive specialist knowledge of evidenced based Occupational Therapy for designated specialist pathway
    In depth knowledge of national guidelines and standards pertaining to specialist pathway and Occupational Therapy
    Robust understanding of clinical governance and its implication for Occupational Therapy
    Understanding of the legal responsibilities of the profession

    The ability to discuss advanced clinical reasoning in the management of highly complex cases
    IT skills - Ability to create and/or format data and/or complex spreadsheets using computerised systems
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