Main area Core Clinical Services Grade Band 7 Contract Permanent Hours Part time - 31 hours per week (Rostered weekend shifts as part of contracted hours with frequency of no more than 1 in 4.) Job ref 339-CCS9939-ANJ-A
Site Southmead Hospital Town Bristol Salary £46,148 - £52,809 per annum pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 07/05/2025 23:59
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Job overview
Owing to service developments, an exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic Occupational Therapist to co-lead our specialist inpatient team providing a service to elective orthopaedics. This is a fast paced environment with short lengths of stay for patients undergoing a range of joint replacement surgeries.
Later this year, much of the service will be provided from the new elective care centre on the Southmead site.
This advert may close early, if we have received a sufficient amount of applications. Therefore you are highly advised to apply as soon as possible if you are interested in this position.
Main duties of the job
The caseload is varied, covering pre-operative clinics and medirooms in addition to ward based therapy. This includes planned joint replacement surgeries, requiring a range of therapeutic skills to assess function, social and environmental needs for discharge planning and onward referrals.
There is close team working and links with community partners in the wider health and care system to address needs at all stages of the clinical pathway, with occupational therapy playing a crucial role.
North Bristol NHS Trust is a great place to work. Situated in the vibrant city of Bristol is our award-winning building opened in 2014, offering exceptional facilities for patients and staff. We are a large teaching Trust that provides multiple specialties including regional services for neurosciences, major trauma, orthopaedics and surgery (major arterial centre and burns & plastics).
There is both peer and senior support within the pathway and wider service. Various professional development opportunities and training courses are available, with quality improvement projects and service development ideas actively encouraged. Additional benefits include award schemes for excellence, staff restaurants, green spaces and an extensive well being programme.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Provide and develop a highly specialist Occupational Therapy service to patients within specialty area, providing advanced clinical leadership and acting as a clinical advisor for the specialty to occupational therapists working in North Bristol NHS Trust.
Work as an autonomous and highly skilled clinician, without supervision, and be accountable for own professional actions managing a caseload of adult patients with complex needs, using advanced clinical reasoning, critical thinking, evidence-based principles, and best practice to assess, plan, implement and evaluate interventions.
Provide leadership and line management for a specialist occupational therapy service to adult patients, ensuring service provision is prioritised across the specialty team and service delivery is effective within resources available. This is to be done within the parameters of all relevant legislation, national and local policies, procedures, standards, and guidelines.
Ensure staff in the team are supervised and developed, and deal with staffing issues as they arise.
Provide specialist input, strong professional leadership, and direction to the specialty team in the planning, co-ordination and evaluation of the occupational therapy service and assist the occupational therapy manager in the strategic development of the service.
Provide training and education to other health care professionals.
Contribute to the maintenance and development of the Trust wide Occupational Therapy service, leading initiatives related to service development such as audit, research, and training.
Provide highly specialist clinical and service development advice, and act as a specialist resource within the occupational therapy service.
Contribute to undergraduate occupational therapy education and regularly supervise students on practice placement.
Provide specialist input and professional leadership in service development projects within specialty, representing the Occupational Therapy service.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Degree in Occupational Therapy (or equivalent)
* Student Educator - experience/qualification (or within one year)
* Post Graduate Training/CPD relevant to specialty
Work Experience
* Post registration experience as an OT
* Post registration experience in related clinical specialties
* Documented CPD
* Experience of research or audit
* Experience of supervising staff
Knowledge/Skills/Abilities
Personal Qualities
* HCPC registration
* Membership of RCOT
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The successful applicant(s) will normally commence at the minimum of the scale unless they have previous NHS service at the same band. Progression through the scale is by annual increments.
At North Bristol Trust (NBT), we know diverse and inclusive environments lead to happier and healthier teams and improved patient care and outcomes. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where we all belong. We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are currently underrepresented in NBT’s workforce at Band 8a and above. These include people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, disabled people and LGBTQIA+ people.
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This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Name Suzanne Billings Job title Pathway Lead Occupational Therapist (MSK) Email address Suzanne.Billings2@nbt.nhs.uk Additional information
Liz Farrell
Lead Occupational Therapist (Elective Orthopaedic Team)
Liz.Farrell@nbt.nhs.uk
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