Band 7 Clinical Specialist Occupational Therapist - Orthopaedics
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BAND 7 OCCUPATIONAL THERAPIST - TRAUMA AND ORTHOPAEDICS
Up to 37.5 hours per week
9-Month Secondment/Fixed Term Contract with the potential to be extended to one year
(This post could be offered as Band 6 post for the right candidate)
This is an exciting opportunity to join our supportive, forward-looking Orthopaedic Therapy Team.
We are seeking a candidate to provide specialist assessment and treatment of patients admitted with both complex elective and traumatic orthopaedic injuries, those with spinal cord injuries and poly trauma patients. You will have your own clinical caseload and work closely with physiotherapists as we are a truly integrated service, with excellent working relationships with our consultants, matrons and ward sisters.
We are an innovative team and were early adopters in stopping the use of hip precautions for total hip arthroplasties, with a well-established Enhanced Recovery Programme for our elective patients, to which occupational therapy is central. We also have plans to offer enhanced occupational therapy-led clinics for frail patients undergoing elective orthopaedic surgery. Our team have successfully presented their improvements at RCOT conferences, and our Out of Bed Project was published which has improved our hip fracture metrics. We are particularly interested in candidates who share our passion for service development and increasing the profile of occupational therapy in the speciality of orthopaedics to improve patient outcomes.
The successful candidate will need to be a qualified and HCPC registered occupational therapist and will need to demonstrate previous experience working within orthopaedics. We are looking for a positive, proactive clinician to join our team who can work flexibly and help us build a strong future for therapy.
You will be responsible for your own complex caseload consisting of patients with a variety of different conditions and lead on the development of junior colleagues within this specialist field. Good prioritisation, organisational and time management skills will be needed to balance clinical and non-clinical duties. You will be responsible for ensuring the use of advanced effective assessment skills to identify appropriate patients and to formulate, implement and evaluate individualised treatment and rehabilitation plans, some of which will be specialist in nature, based on expert analytical and clinical reasoning skills. You will need advanced communication skills to ensure a successful multidisciplinary approach to patient care and will be in regular discussions with patients, carers, JPUH colleagues and community partners on therapy plans. You will be responsible for other non-clinical duties such as leading on team meetings, in-service development ideas, training/supervision of students, therapy assistant practitioners and junior colleagues. This will include the use of formal appraisal documentation.
The James Paget is a vibrant university hospital providing the best possible care to the people of east Norfolk and north Suffolk. Situated on the coast with beautiful beaches and the Broads National Park on the doorstep we are within commuting distance of Norwich City with many of our staff car-sharing from here. Onsite parking is also available.
We know that development and wellbeing are key to the success of your work, and you will receive regular one-to-one supervision to discuss your progress, and any service evaluation and ideas. We are committed to service development, with many projects currently underway. We are forging strong links with the Research and Development Department and the University of East Anglia, and it is a really exciting time to join the Trust as these processes gather momentum. We thoroughly encourage attendance at courses and offer time and funding to engage in research and innovation activity to widen personal knowledge base and bring new skills to the teams to keep our approach fresh and current. Our therapists represent the Trust at CSP, RCOT, BOA and BGS conferences and support future staff to do this. In addition, we have an embedded flexible working policy with flexible hours to enable a better work/life balance but still meet the needs of the service.
The profile of Therapies is growing, and our voice and opinions are heard and valued at both departmental and higher management levels, so this is a brilliant time to join us.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Julie Power Job title: Integrated Therapies Administrator Email address: ITAT@jpaget.nhs.uk Telephone number: 01493 453121
Monday to Friday, 8.30am to 4.30pm
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