Specialist Occupational Therapist or - Oldham, United Kingdom - NHS Professionals

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Oldham, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Job Title:
Highly Specialist Occupational Therapist or Physiotherapist -Hand Therapy

Band:
Agenda for Change Band 7

Reports to:
Line Manager

Responsible to:
Operational & Professional Lead

Base/Department:
Occupational Therapy Department

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Communication

Ensure regular meetings are held and attended by self and team, including:
monthly speciality team meetings

- monthly OT staff meetings
- peer support meetings
- patient related meetings
- ward handover meetings
- champions update meetings

Chair speciality team meetings and deputise for site lead in chairing other delegated meetings
Attend and feedback team talk as required
Represent OT at complex clinical and project group meetings
Maintain links with partner organisations to enable efficient working relationships
Deal with difficult patient/staff/MDT issues as they arise
Ensure own and team effective and defensible documentation to COT and Trust standards
Promote a positive and efficient image of the service within own and wider team
Ensure your team provides effective advice, information and support for patients and carers
Ensure staff, patients and carers are aware of the role of OT within own speciality area
Challenge inappropriate referrals to the service, support staff to follow more appropriate pathways
Overcome barriers to communication by altering style and format
Feedback to others on their communication skills to aid effective team working

Personal and People Development

Maintain up to date evidence of learning activities undertaken
Undertake effective reflection on day to day practice, directed reading and training
Change and improve practice as a result of new learning
Maintain own mandatory training compliance at 100% and team compliance above 95%
Prepare well and effectively participate in supervision and appraisal sessions
Identify and arrange training to meet own and teams learning needs
Meet own identified learning needs in a timely manner
Ensure effective/timely supervision and appraisal for team
Ensure frequency of supervision meets the needs of new and struggling staff
Ensure timely and efficient induction for new starters and rotating staff
Provide training and advice for the wider team on own speciality area
Feedback new learning in order to share effectively with the wider team
Ensure own and others completion of band specific and speciality based competency requirements, in agreed timescales
Participate and undertake observed practice sessions, using and providing constructive feedback to develop practice.
Ensure timely end of rotation summaries are completed and fed back to staff

Health Safety & Security

Request support from other areas when unable to maintain safe staffing level in own team
Provide support for absences in service, to maintain effective team working on own and other Pennine sites
Escalate unresolved staffing issues to site lead in timely manner
Delegate for site lead in reviewing staffing levels and releasing to support others sites as required
Identify risk to staff or patient safety, take immediate action and escalate to site lead in timely manner
Produce risk assessments for the service as required
Effective incident and near miss reporting
Investigate and action incidents as required
Ensure the team follow daily safety procedures e.g locking up and lone working
Be aware of and follow emergency procedures e.g. Fire, CPR and falls

Service Improvement

Maintain own and team knowledge and adherence to clinical guidelines/pathways that affect practice in own speciality, these may include:
Preventing Falls
Home Visits
Amputees
Cognitive assessment and Intervention
Psychosocial assessment and intervention
Equipment provision
Hoist assessment and provision
Maintain own and team up to date knowledge of Trust policy and protocols affecting speciality team practice
Lead and complete projects to bring about change in own team, to agreed timescales
Communicate speciality changes to site lead in a timely manner
Positively support service change and embed into own and team practice
Be aware of good practice examples locally/nationally for own speciality area
Identify areas of service need and suggest ideas for improvement
Encourage team to suggest service improvement initiatives
Utilise patient and carer feedback in implementing and identifying need for service change
Be an active participant in the band 7 peer support group
Lead in developing speciality guidelines and protocols
Contribute to the development of OT policies and procedures

Quality

Have an awareness of Trust and OT service objectives
Demonstrate an awareness of and adherence to OT Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for self and team
Demonstrate behaviours in line with Trust values
Undertake COT and speciality based audits
Manage and escalate formal and informal complaints appropriately, in accordance with Trust policy
Monitor own and team caseload management and escalate areas of concern appropriately
Ensure effective prioritisation of own and team caseload
Ensure no avoidable OT delays to discharge within own and line managed staff caseload
Escalate any risk of OT delays appropriately and timely
Ensure own and team adherence to Trust, OT, COT and HPCP policies, standards and guidelines
Ensure own and team adherence to Professional Code of Conduct
Monitor and maintain own effective use of resources, raising issues for the wider team
Participate in and prepare for the annual OT service peer review
Ensure effective measurement of outcomes for service provision.