Team lead Occupational Therapist (RAAR)

Job description

Job responsibilities

Clinical Responsibilities

To assess and treat patients with complex needs who would benefit from a coordinated interdisciplinary assessment, rehabilitation and discharge services.

To apply a high level of understanding of the effect of illness/ disability on occupational performance and provide training and advice on adaptations to technique and the patients social and physical environment.

To be competent in the development and implementation of remedial and preventative treatment programmes addressing motor, sensory, cognitive, perceptual, psychological needs and occupational performance.

To have extensive knowledge in specialist neurological treatment modalities such as splinting, complex seating and positioning, oedema management, upper limb interventions and cognitive assessment and rehabilitation.

To support the team to identify appropriate referrals, capacity and demand and prioritise workload across the team and other services within occupational therapy, particularly in relation to staff absence.

To develop new working practices and local guidelines and keep abreast of new techniques in relation to the management of the patients in this speciality particularly in line with any national guidance e.g NICE guidelines for rehabilitation after a traumatic injury.

To lead on production of clinical guidelines and local policies ensuring evidence-based, implemented and audited.

To provide guidance and advice to other professions and bodies involved in the provision of rehabilitation and neurological services and to the patients and their carers.

To identify risks, complete risk assessments and implement risk management strategies and document this accurately.

To recognise any change in the condition of the patient and alter treatment accordingly or escalate to medical teams as required.

To work within local policies and procedures, national standards and guidelines and adhere to the Health Care Professionals Council and Royal College of Occupational Therapy professional standards and ethics.

To support patients in setting their own goals, then implementing this and evaluating appropriately.

To plan and implement individual and/or group interventions, in collaboration with clients and carers, to achieve therapeutic goals.

To select evidence based techniques as part of a coordinated treatment program.

To assess and demonstrate to patients and carers the safe use of equipment and adaptations and recommend provision of equipment to support discharge.

To liaise with professionals in onward services to ensure continuity of care.

To respect the individuality, values, culture and religious diversity of patients and contribute to the provision of a service sensitive to these needs, ensuring equity of service provision.

To make appropriate clinical observations and keep accurate electronic records and activity data in accordance with professional and trust standards.

To write occupational therapy functional and discharge reports for social services, onward inpatient services and community services.

To work as an autonomous practitioner and display appropriate problem solving, analytical and judgement skills.

To support occupational therapists and assists with their managing their patient caseloads to a high level, offering advice or practical support as required.

People Management and Performance

Lead, coach and manage the performance of the team in line with good people management practices. Ensuring excellence is recognised and under performance is addressed.

Participate in regular performance appraisal meetings and ensure each member of the team has a clear set of objectives and development plans.

Ensure the team is compliance with all statutory, mandatory training together with any professional training requirements, ensuring they are up to date and fully compliant.

Manage team absences including sickness in line with Trust policy ensuring the appropriate return to work meetings occur, e-roster is updated and productivity is at keep to the highest possible level.

Identify and fill any vacancies that arise within the team in line with the Trusts recruitment policy and process.

Identify talent and support the internal talent management process in order attract and retain and succession plan for your people.

Review skills mix at regular intervals in order to identify any potential opportunities to maximise resource utilisation / allocation, ensuring job descriptions are kept up to date.

Ensure overall wellbeing of the team is maintained. Continuously support in improving the morale of the team and implementing a culture of zero-tolerance for bullying and harassment.

Communication and Representation

To establish robust communication networks with patients, carers, multidisciplinary members and other agencies.

To provide and receive information from patients, carers and other professionals regarding a patients condition and treatment progress. This will include the sharing and receiving of some complex and/or sensitive information

Person Specification

Education and Qualifications

Essential

• Occupational Therapy Degree/ Equivalent (Dip RCOT or BSc OT)
• HCPC Registration
• Portfolio and evidence of continuing professional development (with older adults)

Desirable

• Masters degree or equivalent
• Member of Professional Body (RCOT)
• Member of Specialist Section or special interest group

Knowledge and Experience

Essential

• Experience of working with patients in an acute medical and/or rehabilitation setting at a senior level
• Experience of working with patients with major trauma and neurological conditions
• Experience supervising qualified staff or students
• Experience of audit procedures
• Specialist knowledge and experience of occupational therapy assessment and interventions
• Application of standardised assessments and outcome measures
• Extensive clinical experience in relevant clinical area outcome measures
• Experience in the application of health and safety risk management
• Detailed knowledge of clinical governance and its application
• Concise and accurate report writing skills

Desirable

• Significant experience in a range of healthcare settings
• Experience of presenting to small and large audiences

Skills and Competencies

Essential

• Able to prioritise and manage stress
• Ability to build effective working relationships
• Ability to work autonomously, planning and prioritising own workload
• Able to undertake therapeutic manual handling tasks
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, adapting to barriers to communication
• Knowledge of relevant legislation, policies and guidelines
• Ability to analyse professional and ethical issues
• Excellent IT and record keeping skills
• Presentation and training skills
• Ability to promote wellbeing within a team
• Ability to work flexibly across sites and with weekend working

Desirable

• Ability to develop staff

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).

Employer details

Employer name

King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Kings College Hospital

Denmark Hill

London

SE5 9RS

Employer's website

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