Frailty Amu Team Lead - London, United Kingdom - Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust

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London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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PREVIOUS APPLICANTS NEED NOT APPLY

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our acute medical therapy team as the Occupational Therapy Lead for our acute frailty ward.

You will work closely with the AMU physio lead and as part of the wider dynamic emergency department OT and physio leads.

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.

The Occupational Therapy Team Lead provides professional and clinical leadership to Occupational Therapy staff in the Acute Medical Unit (short stay frailty ward) based at the QEH site.

The post holder supervises the day to day running of the frailty ward Occupational 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 the OT Site Lead QEH, and the other Band 7 Occupational Therapy Team Leads.

The Occupational Therapy Team Lead is a highly experienced clinician in short stay frailty who independently manages a significant and highly specialised clinical caseload.

The Trust offers a huge range of career opportunities, as well as volunteering roles and work experience. Staff members have access to funding for external courses in order to develop themselves professionally.

The role offers the opportunity to work closely cross-site with the OT team at Lewisham Hospital and peer support is encouraged cross-site.

Flexible working patterns are available also. Come and join our friendly department

We recruit to a wide range of positions at University Hospital Lewisham and Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Greenwich. We also recruit to community roles in Lewisham and offer some posts at Queen Mary's Hospital in Bexley. We're a flexible employer and highly value further education and development of our staff.

PREVIOUS APPLICANTS NEED NOT APPLY

JOBTITLE:
Occupational Therapist Frailty Team Lead

HOURS: 37.5 hours per week

GRADE:
Band 7

REPORTS TO:
Occupational Therapy Site Lead QEH

RESPONSIBLE FOR:
All Occupational Therapy Staff Working on the Acute Frailty Unit

BUDGET MANAGED:
Responsibility for Safe Use of Equipment & Stock Maintenance

JOB PURPOSE

The Occupational Therapy Team Lead provides professional and clinical leadership to Occupational Therapy staff working on the Acute frailty unit.

The post holder supervises the day to day running of the medical Occupational 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 the OT Site Lead QEH, and the other Band 7 Occupational Therapy Team Leads.

The Occupational Therapy Team Lead is a highly experienced clinician in acute frailty who independently manages a significant and highly specialised clinical caseload.

In conjunction with the OT Site Lead, the post holder coordinates a rolling

programme of education, clinical evaluation, audit and research within the pathway team at QEH.

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.

The post is based on the Queen Elizabeth site but may at times be asked to work on other sites in order to maintain service levels

7-day working for Therapies is in place within the Trust and the postholder is required to undertake a different working pattern, including weekends, in the future.

KEYRELATIONSHIPS

INTERNAL INCLUDE:
Therapy Managers and Therapy leads, own Teams, referring clinicians, MDTs, on ward, therapy administrative team, HR, other Trust Committees and own clinical teams

EXTERNAL INCLUDE:
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

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Clinical

To undertake all aspects of clinical duties and to carry a significant caseload of patients as an autonomous practitioner, including those with highly complex presentations
To work at an advanced level and to be professionally and legally accountable for a highly-specialised patient caseload and to decide priorities for own work area, balancing other patient related and professional demands
To be professionally and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of own work, and of the pathway teams' work. 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