Occupational Therapy Team Leader - Frimley, United Kingdom - Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

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Frimley, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Are you a dynamic, professional, enthusiastic Occupational Therapist, with a passion for the acute setting? Do you have a special interest in respiratory, cardiology or general medicine?

Do you have a special interest in Emergency Care and Rapid Response Frailty?

Would you like to lead a team whilst keeping a clinical focus? Do you want to extend your leadership and coaching skills?

If so, we are offering an exciting opportunity for you to join our team of senior Occupational Therapists at Frimley Park Hospital to lead our acute medical for a fixed term.

At Frimley Health we are committed to delivering top-quality patient care, excellent education, and staff development.

You will be supported and actively encouraged in enhancing your leadership and clinical skills in this area, to facilitate service improvement and integration with community services and other providers.

To provide strong leadership as part of a leadership team which includes the OT service manager, Principal OT, Specialist Flow lead and Band 7 teams leads peers.

(The Occupational Therapy service at Frimley Park Hospital is based in teams covering Orthopaedics & Surgery, Neurology, Medicine & Acute Assessment (ED and Admission Avoidance areas), General Medicine, and Hand Therapy).

Provide a high-quality expert OT service within specified team.

The Team Leader contributes to the provision, co-ordination, and development of OT services for their specific section, as well as managing their team on a daily basis.

Manage a complex caseload of patients within clinical section, using advanced clinical reasoning, critical thinking, reflection, and analysis to support the OT process.

Take a lead role in training and supervising staff and students; and participates in administrative functions of the OT Department.

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.

We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough.

Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.

We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital's NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties

Main responsibilities include:

assessment and treatment of complex patients as part of their acute journey; formulating recommendations and making onward referrals to meet existing needs and maximise patients' longer term potential; communicating clearly with the MDT across a range of settings and counties (including carers and families); maintaining HCPC, RCOT, Trust and department standards; contributing to quality service delivery and improvement work; maintaining continuous personal development whilst contributing to the development of others; providing clinical, managerial and wellbeing support to a small team; contributing to the leadership team within the department.

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