Job summary
About the Stroke programme across our region:
Across Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire,
health, care and voluntary sector partners are working together to improve
services for people affected by stroke. This includes work to improve the
prevention of stroke, as well as to provide the best possible stroke emergency
care, rehabilitation and care at home once individuals are discharged from
hospital. Our vision is to provide seamless, multidisciplinary care, so local
people have the best opportunity to survive and thrive after stroke.
This role is based in Sirona's ICSS at Home
team
ICSS at Home aims to reduce the length of time that people
are in hospital by providing high quality home-based rehabilitation, helping
individuals achieve their personal goals. We also provide advice and support to
reduce the likelihood of further strokes and help people live well as they
recover.
The care is provided
by a multi-disciplinary team of therapist, registered nurses and support
workers. Our team support people from the day they are discharged from hospital
or a rehabilitation unit. This includes personal care and meal preparation,
working side by side with voluntary sector keyworkers to support service users
in the best way possible.
Main duties of the job
As aBand 7 Clinical Specialist Occupational Therapist you will provide leadership and have operational duties as part of a team of lead clinicians in the North Somerset Region of the ICSS.
You will assess, plan and develop specialist OT treatment programmes for patients/clients with a wide variety of complex and highly complex physical, psychological and cognitive needs following Stroke. You will have clinical responsibility for a caseload of stroke patients and be required to organise this effectively and efficiently with regard to clinical priorities and use of time.
You will be facilitating patient empowerment by enabling people to manage their condition effectively and independently preventing complications and improve quality of life, whilst facilitating best practice and evidence-based, person-centred care. In this role you will be selecting and conducting standardised cognitive and perceptual testing to identify areas affecting functional ability and indicate needs for further assessment/treatment, all whilst contributing to the development of the Specialist Integrated Community Stroke Service.
We currently have 1 WTE (37.5 hours per week) available in North Somerset. This will be on a fixed term basis for 1 year.
About us
We are Sirona care
& health, a Community Interest Company committed to providing local
communities with a range of high-quality specialist health care services across
Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire. For us, its about the
personal approach; we take pride in what we do and deliver the high standard of
care that wed expect for ourselves and our families.
At Sirona, we continue
to build an inclusive culture that encourages, supports, and celebrates the
diverse voices of colleagues, service users and communities. We therefore
welcome applications from all those who feel they have the skills and
attributes we are seeking, and we would particularly love to hear from people
from diverse groups, such as members of the LGBT+ and BAME communities, who are
currently underrepresented and encourage you to consider joining us and adding
to the richness of our workforce.
Benefits:
We offer NHS Agenda for Change Salary, Terms and Conditions and an NHS
pension scheme plus much more! Please see the benefits leaflet attached to this
advert for more details.
Additional
Information:
Please note
that we reserve the right to close this vacancy early if sufficient
applications are received prior to the advertised closing date.
Job description
Job responsibilities
·
To
assess, plan, implement and evaluate the care of peoples, providing skilled
care and emotional support
·
To
support senior team members on assessing, formulating, implementing and
evaluating programmes of care, in line with best practice guidance and
evidence-based standards of care, in collaboration with multi-disciplinary team
·
Initiates
appropriate and timely consultation and/or referral of people with Stroke when
more expert input is required
·
To
provide information to patients and their families/carers, to empower them to
manage their condition effectively and to make health care choices
·
Support/liaise
with Specialists from outside of the organisation who are in training/managing
people and their carers with advanced therapy
·
To
build effective working relationships, collaborating and consulting with
multi-disciplinary teams (MDT) within the trust, using a person-centred
approach.
·
Establishes
partnerships with people and carers, using highly developed communication
skills to provide guidance, advice, information, and support.
·
Whilst
communicating highly specialist, sensitive, sometimes highly distressing
information to patient / carer, is able to identify and overcome barriers to
understanding, with empathy and reassurance.
·
Supports
the development of pathways, policies, and protocols, to enable changes in
practice to be achieved
·
In
the absence of senior staff, will be expected to plan and manage allocated
workloads, in a flexible manner, ensuring service provision meets needs of
patients and organisation
A full list of
responsibilities can be found in the attached Job Description
Job description
Job responsibilities
·
To
assess, plan, implement and evaluate the care of peoples, providing skilled
care and emotional support
·
To
support senior team members on assessing, formulating, implementing and
evaluating programmes of care, in line with best practice guidance and
evidence-based standards of care, in collaboration with multi-disciplinary team
·
Initiates
appropriate and timely consultation and/or referral of people with Stroke when
more expert input is required
·
To
provide information to patients and their families/carers, to empower them to
manage their condition effectively and to make health care choices
·
Support/liaise
with Specialists from outside of the organisation who are in training/managing
people and their carers with advanced therapy
·
To
build effective working relationships, collaborating and consulting with
multi-disciplinary teams (MDT) within the trust, using a person-centred
approach.
·
Establishes
partnerships with people and carers, using highly developed communication
skills to provide guidance, advice, information, and support.
·
Whilst
communicating highly specialist, sensitive, sometimes highly distressing
information to patient / carer, is able to identify and overcome barriers to
understanding, with empathy and reassurance.
·
Supports
the development of pathways, policies, and protocols, to enable changes in
practice to be achieved
·
In
the absence of senior staff, will be expected to plan and manage allocated
workloads, in a flexible manner, ensuring service provision meets needs of
patients and organisation
A full list of
responsibilities can be found in the attached Job Description
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree/Diploma in Occupational Therapy
- HCPC Registration
- Registration with RCOT
- Evidence of continuing professional development and commitment to lifelong learning (Preferably in specialist stroke care)
Experience
Essential
- Evidence of highly competent clinical reasoning skills and be able to communicate this to other professionals
- A high level of effective communication and an ability to develop relationships with patients, carers and staff in other teams and organisations.
- Able to work collaboratively within own and multidisciplinary health and social care teams
- A good degree of prioritisation skills and the ability to manage, organise and delegate own caseload.
- Computer skills including e-mail, word processing, power-point and the use of data bases to search for literature.
- Highly competent clinical documentation skills.
- Demonstrable people management skills; you will need to be able to supervise and manage junior staff and students.
- Significant experience of the core areas of Occupational Therapy stroke, neurology and elderly care including: Experience in community setting, Experience in the specialist area of stroke, Experience of day to day supervision of more junior members of staff
- Documented evidence of CPD in accordance with HCPC recommendations
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree/Diploma in Occupational Therapy
- HCPC Registration
- Registration with RCOT
- Evidence of continuing professional development and commitment to lifelong learning (Preferably in specialist stroke care)
Experience
Essential
- Evidence of highly competent clinical reasoning skills and be able to communicate this to other professionals
- A high level of effective communication and an ability to develop relationships with patients, carers and staff in other teams and organisations.
- Able to work collaboratively within own and multidisciplinary health and social care teams
- A good degree of prioritisation skills and the ability to manage, organise and delegate own caseload.
- Computer skills including e-mail, word processing, power-point and the use of data bases to search for literature.
- Highly competent clinical documentation skills.
- Demonstrable people management skills; you will need to be able to supervise and manage junior staff and students.
- Significant experience of the core areas of Occupational Therapy stroke, neurology and elderly care including: Experience in community setting, Experience in the specialist area of stroke, Experience of day to day supervision of more junior members of staff
- Documented evidence of CPD in accordance with HCPC recommendations
Additional information
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
