• Job Description

  Req#: C9179-23-6084-I?language=en&page=1401&sort=publicationDateDesc

  Job summary

  BAND 6 OCCUPATIONAL THERAPIST Trauma & Orthopaedics

  Monday to Friday - 08:30-16:30 with occasional weekend working - 37.5hrs per week

  Static position

  Could you bring your passion and skills to join the Occupational Therapy Service at West Suffolk Foundation Trust in Bury St Edmunds? If so wed love to hear from you.

  An exciting opportunity has arisen for a permanent static Band 6 Occupational Therapist covering orthopaedic inpatients. The majority of the caseload is adults but there is also some provision for the paediatric orthopaedic service.

  The post provides the opportunity to develop your knowledge, clinical and leadership skills and the successful candidate will be part of the friendly, supportive and forward-thinking orthopaedic therapy team.

  Main duties of the job

  We are very keen to develop our staff through the provision of training and development opportunities, individual supervision, opportunities for CPD, annual appraisals and strongly advocate the engagement of therapists with the continuous development of our service.

  If you have any queries or would like to visit please contact: Ann Alexander, Orthopaedic Team Lead Occupational Therapist on 01284 713570 or Lisa Enright, Professional Lead for Occupational Therapy on 01284 713639

  ann.alexander@wsh.nhs.uk

  lisa.enright@wsh.nhs.uk

  About us

  #BeKnown at West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust. By us. By our patients. By our community

  We are a busy, friendly, rural NHS Trust providing high-quality care and compassion to more than a quarter of a million people across west Suffolk. We care for, treat and support people in hospital, at home and in various community settings.

  The West Suffolk Hospital in Bury St Edmunds provides acute and secondary care services (emergency department, maternity and neonatal services, day surgery unit, eye treatment centre, Macmillan unit and children's ward). It has 500+ beds and is a partner teaching hospital of the University of Cambridge.

  Adult and paediatric community services, provided in collaboration with West Suffolk Alliance partners, include a range of nursing, therapy, specialist, and ongoing temporary care and rehabilitation, some at our Newmarket Community Hospital.

  We do our utmost to achieve outstanding clinical outcomes for patients and our values of fairness, inclusivity, respect, safety and team work guide how we work and behave as a team.

  With nearly 5,000 staff, from all over the world, we strive to make our organisation a great place to work. Whatever your role or ambition, we want to help you be the best you can be.

  We promote a diverse and inclusive community where everyones voice counts and you can #BeKnown for whoever you are.

  Join us. What will you #BeKnown for?

  Date posted

  01 August 2023

  Pay scheme

  Agenda for change

  Band

  Band 6

  Salary

  £35,392 to £42,618 a year

  Contract

  Permanent

  Working pattern

  Full-time, Flexible working

  Reference number

  C9179-23-6084-I

  Job locations

  West Suffolk Hospitals Nhs Trust

  Hardwick Lane

  Bury St. Edmunds

  Suffolk

  IP33 2QZ

  
  

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  Please see the full job description for more detail in supporting information

  Job summary:

  To support the team lead with service delivery and the day-to-day management of the team

  To work under the direction of the team lead with audits, service developments and research to ensure the service is in line with current best practice

  To support the team with regular training and education to assist staff, students, carers and others as required

  To provide specialist assessment, treatment and management of patients, ensuring practice is evidence based at all times

  To foster a positive team ethos, promoting, supporting and developing the service and staff to enable a safe and healthy working environment

  To ensure staff are supported through regular supervision and appraisals to maximise development opportunities

  Job responsibilities:

  Clinical and professional

  • To be professionally accountable for all aspects of your own work including the management of patients in your care, complying at all times with the HCPC standards of conduct, performance and ethics and the RCOT Professional standards for occupational therapy practice, conduct and ethics. To ensure a high standard of clinical care for the patients under your management and support staff to do likewise.
  • To employ professional judgement to establish a level of consent and to work within the Trust and departmental policy to treat patients lacking the capacity to provide consent.

  • To undertake complex, comprehensive assessments of patients using investigative, observational, analytical and problem-solving skills. To formulate individualised treatment and management plans using advanced clinical reasoning.

  • To communicate effectively with patients and carers, ensuring understanding of the conditions, aim of therapy treatment and progression. A high level of skill and empathy is required to communicate effectively with patients who have complex emotional, physical and psychological problems and carers/family members who may be emotionally impacted.

  • To be responsible for accessing confidential information via IT systems and recording patient contact data for statistical analysis and audit purposes

  • To provide expert treatment to patients using therapy techniques, specialist equipment and therapeutic handling. To provide spontaneous and planned advice, teaching and instruction to patients, carers, other team members including students to enable progression, discharge or onward referral.

  • To communicate effectively and work collaboratively in a positive manner with all other members of the multidisciplinary team to ensure the safe delivery of co-ordinated and seamless care. This will include sharing assessment findings, goals and plans, outcomes of treatment, personal and clinical details. Referral on to other agencies is an essential part of this role.

  • To communicate closely with external agencies enabling supportive discharges.

  • To maintain accurate and comprehensive patient notes in accordance with the HCPC, Trust and departmental guidelines and standards. To communicate assessment and treatment results to appropriate disciplines verbally and in written reports, whilst abiding by the protocol on confidentiality at all times.

  • To be flexible to provide occupational therapy for other wards and teams as needed. To attend meetings and training as required by the team or professional lead. To observe and adhere to departmental, Trust and professional standards, guidelines and policies. To support the team and professional leads with updating and implementing policies.

  • To participate in the Trust appraisal schemes. This will include undertaking an annual appraisal with the team lead. To undertake appraisals, participate and provide regular supervision as instructed by the team lead.

  • To maintain an active CPD portfolio. To be responsible for own continuing professional development, both clinically and managerially. To develop and maintain skills to practice at a specialist level, evaluating own work and current practices using evidence-based findings. To ensure full participation of self and team in departmental In-service training programme.

  • To undertake and actively participate in clinical governance initiatives such as audit and research work to embed best practice and support governance activity within the team and Trust. To feedback any findings, outcomes and service impacts to the appropriate audience.

  • To induct, supervise, train and develop the therapy staff and students as directed by the team or professional lead. This will include the clinical supervision of staff as allocated.

  • To encourage staff in a supportive manner to participate in performance reviews, supervision, appraisals and probation review meetings.

  • To support staff and patients who may require coaching strategies, using emotional intelligence and compassion to achieve the best outcome for the individual.

  • To promote the role of occupational therapy in a professional, positive and approachable way. To represent the team and therapy department at meetings, conferences and other events as required by the team and professional lead.

  • To ensure that professionalism is adhered to at all times, complying with the HCPC standards of conduct, performance and ethics.

  Communication and team working

  • To communicate with patients with multiple physical/mental health problems ensuring a sensitive approach to engage them in treatment programmes. This will involve motivating patients and agreeing treatment goals, communicating patients progress, treatment and recommendations to ensure good communication and timely arrangements for care in the community.

  • To ensure positive and effective communication with the ward staff and team members, raising any issues in a timely manner initially with the team lead.

  • To attend ward-based meetings, handovers, ward rounds, MDT meetings and case conferences as appropriate. Ensure two-way communication between members of the MDT, self and other team members in regards to patient progress and treatment plans. At all times occupational therapists need to respect the need for confidentiality whilst giving and receiving complex clinical and personal information.

  • To initiate and lead team meetings in the absence of the team lead.

  • To ensure consistent and open communication with the patient, relatives and carers in order to maintain patient involvement, regarding the patients condition, diagnosis and prognosis.

  • To liaise with other agencies both internal and external to ensure good communication, both verbal and written, about the patients treatment plans and arrangements for care in the community.

  • To undertake an active role to ensure positive team working within the wider multi-disciplinary team, supporting colleagues to adopt the same ethos.

  • To maintain all essential communication by using the Trust IT systems, complying with Trust data collection and confidentiality.

  Training and Teaching

  • To undertake informal and formal supervision of occupational therapists, apprenticeship occupational therapists, rehabilitation assistant practitioners, therapy assistants and others as directed by the team lead.

  • To supervise students as required after completing a Practice Placement Educators course and to ensure practice remains updated and relevant to the setting.

  • To regularly lead training sessions with staff, students and other professions as required.

  • To identify training needs and construct programmes to facilitate the learning of others.

  • To actively engage and promote the Occupational Therapy profession.

  • To contribute to the development and training of the wider multidisciplinary team. This

  includes formal and informal teaching, induction, advice and shadowing.

  • To be a source of specialist therapeutic advice to other health professionals and therapy

  colleagues working in other areas.

  Planning and Organisation

  • To be responsible for prioritising own caseload as well as overseeing the delegation of patients across the team as appropriate and in conjunction with the team lead.

  • To manage the day-to-day support of staff and to address any issues that may arise in the absence of the team lead. To inform the professional lead of any serious issues that may need to be resolved urgently in this circumstance.

  To efficiently manage time and resources, balancing clinical and non-clinical tasks to ensure the team is supported and patients assessed in a timely manner.

  • To co-ordinate tasks, caseload and staff timetables to ensure priorities are achieved daily under the direction of the team lead. To ensure the appropriate use of resource and ensure seamless day-to-day running of the team in the absence of the team lead.

  • To provide cover across teams when needed to ensure that the occupational therapy service is maintained within the Trust. This could involve working on a short-term basis in another team as directed by the team lead or professional lead.

  • To be responsible for ensuring that team, department and Trust policies and procedures are followed and that this is included in the team inductions with new staff and students.

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  Please see the full job description for more detail in supporting information

  Job summary:

  To support the team lead with service delivery and the day-to-day management of the team

  To work under the direction of the team lead with audits, service developments and research to ensure the service is in line with current best practice

  To support the team with regular training and education to assist staff, students, carers and others as required

  To provide specialist assessment, treatment and management of patients, ensuring practice is evidence based at all times

  To foster a positive team ethos, promoting, supporting and developing the service and staff to enable a safe and healthy working environment

  To ensure staff are supported through regular supervision and appraisals to maximise development opportunities

  Job responsibilities:

  Clinical and professional

  • To be professionally accountable for all aspects of your own work including the management of patients in your care, complying at all times with the HCPC standards of conduct, performance and ethics and the RCOT Professional standards for occupational therapy practice, conduct and ethics. To ensure a high standard of clinical care for the patients under your management and support staff to do likewise.
  • To employ professional judgement to establish a level of consent and to work within the Trust and departmental policy to treat patients lacking the capacity to provide consent.

  • To undertake complex, comprehensive assessments of patients using investigative, observational, analytical and problem-solving skills. To formulate individualised treatment and management plans using advanced clinical reasoning.

  • To communicate effectively with patients and carers, ensuring understanding of the conditions, aim of therapy treatment and progression. A high level of skill and empathy is required to communicate effectively with patients who have complex emotional, physical and psychological problems and carers/family members who may be emotionally impacted.

  • To be responsible for accessing confidential information via IT systems and recording patient contact data for statistical analysis and audit purposes

  • To provide expert treatment to patients using therapy techniques, specialist equipment and therapeutic handling. To provide spontaneous and planned advice, teaching and instruction to patients, carers, other team members including students to enable progression, discharge or onward referral.

  • To communicate effectively and work collaboratively in a positive manner with all other members of the multidisciplinary team to ensure the safe delivery of co-ordinated and seamless care. This will include sharing assessment findings, goals and plans, outcomes of treatment, personal and clinical details. Referral on to other agencies is an essential part of this role.

  • To communicate closely with external agencies enabling supportive discharges.

  • To maintain accurate and comprehensive patient notes in accordance with the HCPC, Trust and departmental guidelines and standards. To communicate assessment and treatment results to appropriate disciplines verbally and in written reports, whilst abiding by the protocol on confidentiality at all times.

  • To be flexible to provide occupational therapy for other wards and teams as needed. To attend meetings and training as required by the team or professional lead. To observe and adhere to departmental, Trust and professional standards, guidelines and policies. To support the team and professional leads with updating and implementing policies.

  • To participate in the Trust appraisal schemes. This will include undertaking an annual appraisal with the team lead. To undertake appraisals, participate and provide regular supervision as instructed by the team lead.

  • To maintain an active CPD portfolio. To be responsible for own continuing professional development, both clinically and managerially. To develop and maintain skills to practice at a specialist level, evaluating own work and current practices using evidence-based findings. To ensure full participation of self and team in departmental In-service training programme.

  • To undertake and actively participate in clinical governance initiatives such as audit and research work to embed best practice and support governance activity within the team and Trust. To feedback any findings, outcomes and service impacts to the appropriate audience.

  • To induct, supervise, train and develop the therapy staff and students as directed by the team or professional lead. This will include the clinical supervision of staff as allocated.

  • To encourage staff in a supportive manner to participate in performance reviews, supervision, appraisals and probation review meetings.

  • To support staff and patients who may require coaching strategies, using emotional intelligence and compassion to achieve the best outcome for the individual.

  • To promote the role of occupational therapy in a professional, positive and approachable way. To represent the team and therapy department at meetings, conferences and other events as required by the team and professional lead.

  • To ensure that professionalism is adhered to at all times, complying with the HCPC standards of conduct, performance and ethics.

  Communication and team working

  • To communicate with patients with multiple physical/mental health problems ensuring a sensitive approach to engage them in treatment programmes. This will involve motivating patients and agreeing treatment goals, communicating patients progress, treatment and recommendations to ensure good communication and timely arrangements for care in the community.

  • To ensure positive and effective communication with the ward staff and team members, raising any issues in a timely manner initially with the team lead.

  • To attend ward-based meetings, handovers, ward rounds, MDT meetings and case conferences as appropriate. Ensure two-way communication between members of the MDT, self and other team members in regards to patient progress and treatment plans. At all times occupational therapists need to respect the need for confidentiality whilst giving and receiving complex clinical and personal information.

  • To initiate and lead team meetings in the absence of the team lead.

  • To ensure consistent and open communication with the patient, relatives and carers in order to maintain patient involvement, regarding the patients condition, diagnosis and prognosis.

  • To liaise with other agencies both internal and external to ensure good communication, both verbal and written, about the patients treatment plans and arrangements for care in the community.

  • To undertake an active role to ensure positive team working within the wider multi-disciplinary team, supporting colleagues to adopt the same ethos.

  • To maintain all essential communication by using the Trust IT systems, complying with Trust data collection and confidentiality.

  Training and Teaching

  • To undertake informal and formal supervision of occupational therapists, apprenticeship occupational therapists, rehabilitation assistant practitioners, therapy assistants and others as directed by the team lead.

  • To supervise students as required after completing a Practice Placement Educators course and to ensure practice remains updated and relevant to the setting.

  • To regularly lead training sessions with staff, students and other professions as required.

  • To identify training needs and construct programmes to facilitate the learning of others.

  • To actively engage and promote the Occupational Therapy profession.

  • To contribute to the development and training of the wider multidisciplinary team. This

  includes formal and informal teaching, induction, advice and shadowing.

  • To be a source of specialist therapeutic advice to other health professionals and therapy

  colleagues working in other areas.

  Planning and Organisation

  • To be responsible for prioritising own caseload as well as overseeing the delegation of patients across the team as appropriate and in conjunction with the team lead.

  • To manage the day-to-day support of staff and to address any issues that may arise in the absence of the team lead. To inform the professional lead of any serious issues that may need to be resolved urgently in this circumstance.

  To efficiently manage time and resources, balancing clinical and non-clinical tasks to ensure the team is supported and patients assessed in a timely manner.

  • To co-ordinate tasks, caseload and staff timetables to ensure priorities are achieved daily under the direction of the team lead. To ensure the appropriate use of resource and ensure seamless day-to-day running of the team in the absence of the team lead.

  • To provide cover across teams when needed to ensure that the occupational therapy service is maintained within the Trust. This could involve working on a short-term basis in another team as directed by the team lead or professional lead.

  • To be responsible for ensuring that team, department and Trust policies and procedures are followed and that this is included in the team inductions with new staff and students.

  Person Specification

  Qualifications

  Essential

  • Degree in Occupational Therapy BSc MSc
  • HCPC registration

  Desirable

  • Membership of the Royal College of Occupational Therapists

  Experience

  Essential

  • Extensive occupational therapy experience as a qualified therapist within a range of settings.
  • Documented evidence of Clinical Professional Development (CPD), demonstrating transferrable skills

  Desirable

  • Practice Educators Course
  • Experience of supervising students or staff

  Skills and Abilities

  Essential

  • Advanced knowledge of application of Occupational Therapy
  • Assessment and interventions relevant to the client group
  • I.T. skills
  • Proven team player
  • Demonstrable interpersonal skills
  • Evidence of excellent written and verbal skills
  • Ability to undertake Manual Handling tasks
  • Organisational skills and flexibility
  • Ability to prioritise in a fast paced setting
  • Ability to travel to all rural locations to carry out post

  Desirable

  • Evidence of audits conducted and service
  • Evidence of service development initiatives
  • Evidence of formal education and teaching
  • Evidence of the promotion of occupational therapy
  • Leadership training

  Personal Qualities

  Essential

  • Knowledge and use of coping skills to deal with working under pressure
  • Able to demonstrate advanced initiative and responsibility
  • Ability to critically self-reflect
  • To be open to new initiatives and ways of working

  Desirable

  • Ability to travel to all rural locations to carry out post

  Person Specification

  Qualifications

  Essential

  • Degree in Occupational Therapy BSc MSc
  • HCPC registration

  Desirable

  • Membership of the Royal College of Occupational Therapists

  Experience

  Essential

  • Extensive occupational therapy experience as a qualified therapist within a range of settings.
  • Documented evidence of Clinical Professional Development (CPD), demonstrating transferrable skills

  Desirable

  • Practice Educators Course
  • Experience of supervising students or staff

  Skills and Abilities

  Essential

  • Advanced knowledge of application of Occupational Therapy
  • Assessment and interventions relevant to the client group
  • I.T. skills
  • Proven team player
  • Demonstrable interpersonal skills
  • Evidence of excellent written and verbal skills
  • Ability to undertake Manual Handling tasks
  • Organisational skills and flexibility
  • Ability to prioritise in a fast paced setting
  • Ability to travel to all rural locations to carry out post

  Desirable

  • Evidence of audits conducted and service
  • Evidence of service development initiatives
  • Evidence of formal education and teaching
  • Evidence of the promotion of occupational therapy
  • Leadership training

  Personal Qualities

  Essential

  • Knowledge and use of coping skills to deal with working under pressure
  • Able to demonstrate advanced initiative and responsibility
  • Ability to critically self-reflect
  • To be open to new initiatives and ways of working

  Desirable

  • Ability to travel to all rural locations to carry out post

  Disclosure and Barring Service Check

  This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

  Certificate of Sponsorship

  Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

  From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

  UK Registration

  Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

  Additional information

  Certificate of Sponsorship

  Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

  From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

  UK Registration

  Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

  Employer details

  Employer name

  West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust

  Address

  West Suffolk Hospitals Nhs Trust

  Hardwick Lane

  Bury St. Edmunds

  Suffolk

  IP33 2QZ

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://www.wsh.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)

  Employer details

  Employer name

  West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust

  Address

  West Suffolk Hospitals Nhs Trust

  Hardwick Lane

  Bury St. Edmunds

  Suffolk

  IP33 2QZ

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://www.wsh.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)

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