Occupational Therapy Team Lead Orthopaedics - London, United Kingdom - Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust

Description

An exciting opportunity has arisen to lead our trauma orthopaedic and surgical Occupational Therapy team based at the Queen Elizabeth hospital in Woolwich.

The QEH has a busy and dynamic orthopaedic and surgical OT and physiotherapy team, who work closely to provide high standards of care.

This is an exciting time to be part of the OT department at QEH with the aim to implement a seven-day service. We have recently hired a practice development OT to aid with staff training and upskilling. The recently opened Elizabeth Line has also greatly improved access to the hospital.

The recently opened Elizabeth Line has improved access to the hospital

Main duties of the job The post holder supervises the day to day running of the OT Trauma Orthopaedic & Surgical team and is line managed by the Occupational Therapy Site Lead at QEH. They provide support and training to the orthopaedic and surgical OT team, and review service standards in line with evidence based practice and local and national guidelines to achieve high standards of practice.

This is an exciting time to join the team at Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust.

The Trust offers a huge range of career opportunities, as well as volunteering roles and work experience. 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.

Working in Therapies

About us Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. 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
• Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
• Improving the experience of staff with disability
• Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
• Making equalities mainstream

Job description Job responsibilities JOB PURPOSE

The Occupational Therapy Team Lead provides professional and clinical leadership to Occupational Therapy staff in the Orthopaedic & Surgical Team based at the QEH site.

The post holder supervises the day to day running of the Orthopaedics & Surgery 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 orthopaedics and surgery 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 Clinical Pathway Leads 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 under development within the Trust and the postholder may be required to undertake a different working pattern, including weekends, in the future.

KEY RELATIONSHIPS

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 legal framework in the management of the patient
• To undertake the comprehensive assessment and accurate diagnosis of patients, including those with an extremely complex presentation, using investigative, palpatory, analytical and clinical reasoning skills
• As appropriate to the job role, to request diagnostic procedures that will inform clinical decision making
• To undertake physical treatment techniques utilising highly developed manual skills
• 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 provide spontaneous and planned expert advice, teaching and instruction to relatives, carers, other disciplines and agencies. To promote understanding of the aims of Occupational Therapy and to ensure continuation of the treatment programme. To be consulted by staff within the pathway, the Trust and externally.
• 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 identify and employ suitable verbal and non-verbal communication skills with patients where there may be barriers to understanding or the inability to accept diagnosis. To facilitate the best possible communication outcome in every situation and use appropriate services e.g. interpreters, SALT
• To ensure that individual practice and that of the pathway team is user focused and patient views are incorporated into treatment planning
• To employ appropriate skills such as persuasion, motivation and negotiation to gain co-operation in the continuation of the agreed treatment programme
• 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 produce comprehensive patient related reports for other disciplines or agencies relating to assessment findings and/or treatment outcomes
• To undertake an extended scope role as appropriate to the needs of the service (an extended scope practitioner undertakes delegated responsibility on behalf of medical practitioner(s) including the independent management of complete episodes of care of patients from referral to discharge)
• To undertake the measurement and evaluation of own work through audit, outcome measurement, the application of evidence based practice and research where appropriate. 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
• Once considered competent, to participate in week-end, bank holiday and extended working rotas where clinically appropriate
• To fully participate in whatever pattern of working is required by the service in the future

All clinical staff are accountable and responsible for their own clinical competence and should limit their actions to those for which they are deemed competent in line with guidance from their professional bodies. Person Specification Qualifications & Training Essential

• Diploma / Degree in Occupational Therapy.
• HCPC registration
• Working at M level (e.g. module) or equivalent experience/qualification
• Undertaken a range of relevant postgraduate courses
• Undertaken clinical educators training

Desirable

• BAOT
• Member of Special interest Group
• MSC in related subject
• Undertaken appropriate managerial training

Experience Essential

• Wide ranging post graduate Occupational Therapy experience including having held senior position in relevant speciality
• Significant experience of relevant specialist pathway
• Experience of working autonomously and unsupervised
• Experience in managing limited resources and high workloads
• 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
• Experience and ability to work collaboratively within MPT
• Evidence of leading change management and innovation in clinical practice

Desirable

• Previous experience at band 7 Level
• Research experience including publication in recognised journal.
• Presented at national level or external courses relevant to subject area
• Actively involved in developing research links with other academic institutions
• Evidence of presenting to MDT groups, undergraduate and postgraduate staff

Knowledge Essential

• 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
• Awareness and understanding of NHS structure, current issues and developments
• Understanding of the legal responsibilities of the profession

Employer details Employer name Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust Address Queen Elizabeth Hospital

London

SE18 4QH Any attachments will be accessible after you click to apply. 197-UT3218A-K #J-18808-Ljbffr