Job summary
Are you
1. Passionate about top class patient care in the acute setting for trauma and orthopaedic services
2. Wanting to make sure care is provided with a belief that every day matters.
3. Somebody with experience in the acute setting and like to lead a fast passed pressured team
4. Wanting to build on your current skills and knowledge and expand your leadership skills
5. Wanting to lead a team able to deal with current unprecedented challenges by exploring new ways of working to improve flow and effective service provision
6. Driven to change the narrative of OT within the Trust and our wider communities, to promote and develop a strong workforce now & for future generations
7. Committed to making the NHS having a brighter future
8. Thinking about return to practice
Main duties of the job
To provide excellent, high-quality person-centred clinical care that advocates for patients, strive to provide a service fit for today and the future. The post holder will lead and facilitate the Trauma Orthopaedic and Surgical OT Service with key roles in the development of a competent, knowledgeable workforce, equipping them to provide high-quality person-centred and evidenced based care.
Our teams across all sites have a friendly, supportive atmosphere and a real team ethic. We know how to look after our staff. We offer excellent training opportunities supported by an APH practice development lead and clinical flow lead.
9. Do you want
10. to lead a team whilst still keeping a clinical focus?
11. to extend your leadership and coaching skills
12. to be challenged professionally and be asked to think outside the box
13. develop a robust, motivated, and skilled workforce within the trauma, orthopaedic and surgical team
14. enhance and develop your skills within trauma and orthopaedic OT services including spinal injuries and acute recovery/rehab
15. work closely with the clinical specialist band 7 OT in surgery as a part of the team lead role
16. to be a part of the future of OT within the Trust
17. We offer:
18. excellent advanced learning opportunities with a high level of support and supervision and appraisal from senior OT lead management
19. peer support from a large group of colleagues
20. multi-professional leadership programmes
21. Flexible working agreements considerations
About us
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital servicesforaround 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 threecore 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,WorkingTogether 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 personnelworkingalongside the hospital's NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties
Job description
Job responsibilities
If you are inspired to know more about this opportunity and our team, please see the job description attached, which outlines the main duties of this post.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
22. Degree or Diploma in OT
23. HCPC Registration
Desirable
24. Fieldwork educators course
25. MSc
26. Post graduate study in the field of Orthopaedics/ Surgery
27. Knowledge of spinal cord injury
28. Post graduate study - management/leadership
Experience
Essential
29. In-depth knowledge of evidence based practice
30. Understanding of professional ethics and their application in practice
31. In-depth knowledge of health legislation in current practice and clinical governance
32. Knowledge of risk assessment
33. 3-4 years post registration experience as an OT some of which must be in the acute physical sector
34. Clinical work as senior therapist in orthopaedics / surgery
35. Skills in assessing for and prescribing complex equipment
36. Skills in assessing and evaluating cognitive and perceptual impairment
37. Skills in treating patients with impairment following orthopaedic / surgical injury
38. Documented evidence of CPD
39. Demonstrate ethical reasoning and critical reflection
Desirable
40. Splinting
41. Experience of research and audit
42. Advice and informal supervision to support staff and students
43. Worked in some of the following areas: - elective orthopaedics, trauma orthopaedics, general surgery, amputees, care of the older person
44. Leadership and first line management
45. Training of other staff
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
46. Problem solver
47. Task analysis
48. Good time manager
49. Good organisational skills
50. Ability to work singlehandedly with individuals and groups
51. Effective written and oral communication skills
52. Computer literacy
53. Some basic management skills
54. Group work skills
55. Team Player - understanding team dynamics
56. Ability to manage own workload and determine priorities
57. Demonstrate clinical leadership skills
58. Be able to work under pressure and to deadlines
59. Ability to reflect and critically appraise own performance
60. Ability to motivate staff through change
61. Ability to manage own caseload whilst dealing with interruptions and changes of task at third party request
Desirable
62. Presentation skills
63. Training and facilitation skills
64. Use of electronic patient record or other IT systems