Occupational Therapist - Band 7

Job description

Job responsibilities

The postholder will be required:

1. To provide and develop a highly specialist Occupational Therapy service to patients, providing advanced clinical leadership and acting as a clinical advisor for the specialty to occupational therapists working in North Bristol Trust.

2. To work as an autonomous and highly skilled clinician, without supervision, and being 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.

3. To 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.

4. To ensure staff in the team are supervised and developed, and deal with staffing issues as they arise.

5. To 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.

6. To provide training and education to other health care professionals.

7. To 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

Regular placements are provided for undergraduate students from the local university and the role will also include supervision of senior, junior and support staff.

Roster patterns include one weekend shift every four weeks.

Person Specification

Education/Training/Qual

Essential

• Diploma/Degree in Occupational Therapy
• Post Graduate Training relevant to specialty
• Practice Educator Qualification or equivalent

Desirable

• Basic management/leadership training

Work Experience

Essential

• Post registration specilaty experience
• Experience in using range of assessments relevant to specialty

Desirable

• Experience of research or audit

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities

Essential

• Knowledge of OT process within specialty evidenced by CPD record
• Written communication skills
• Ability to develop others through training and supervision

Desirable

• Splinting skills

Personal Qualities

Essential

• HCPC registration

Desirable

• Membership of RCOT
• Membership of Specialist section/interest group

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

North Bristol NHS Trust

Address

Southmead Hospital

Bristol

BS10 5NB

Employer's website

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