[ref. d3006400] Clinical Specialist Occupational Therapist | Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

• To lead, develop and support staff within the Orthopaedic and Surgery and Vascular Service, leading on service improvements and relevant initiatives.
• To manage the most complex caseload within Orthopaedics and Surgery & Vascular and act as an specialist advisor using advanced clinical reasoning, critical thinking, reflection and analysis to support assessments using a client centred approach.
• To lead a designated team of Occupational Therapists providing leadership for senior and junior staff and Occupational Therapy Assistants through supervision and performance management.
• To act as a clinical source of expertise and advice being actively involved in leading on Clinical Governance and Quality Assurance in Orthopaedics and Surgery and Vascular
• To be responsible for the maintenance and development of own CPD identifying and contributing to the evidence base of Occupational Therapy.
• To support the management of the Occupational Therapy Service as required by the Trust Head Occupational Therapist.
• To be actively involved in professional activities within the Occupational Therapy profession and outside the profession, e.g. multi-disciplinary forums and networks.

This post will provide clinical and operational leadership to the Trauma and Elective Orthopaedic Occupational Therapy service and will support the development of the team and overall occupational therapy service.

Our orthopaedic service is growing into one of London’s largest orthopaedic services with specialist interest in hip and knee replacements and revisions, complex spinal surgery, complex foot and ankle surgery and upper limb surgery including a full trauma services at St Thomas’ Hospital.

The successful candidate will manage a variable and complex clinical caseload with a high proportion of complex surgical and orthopaedic conditions in this fast paced environment. Additionally, you will be supported by the Clinical Lead OT to further develop and enhance your leadership and clinical management skills.

Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK’s best known hospitals – Guy’s, St Thomas’, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield – as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation.

We are among the UK’s busiest, most successful foundation trusts. Our integrated approach to caring for patients from before birth, through childhood, adolescence and into adulthood and old age has been replicated around the world and has gained Royal Brompton and Harefield an international reputation as a leader in heart and lung diagnosis, treatment and research.

We are working in partnership with King’s Health Partners, to deliver our vision of creating a new centre of excellence, which will be the global leader in the research into and treatment of heart and lung disease, in patients from pre-birth to old age.

We have around 22,700 staff, making us one of the largest NHS Trusts in the country and one of the biggest employers locally. We aim to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve and continue to develop new and existing partnerships with local people, patients, neighbouring NHS organisations, local authorities and charitable bodies and GPs.

To be responsible for providing the most complex individual and group client centred assessments to Orthopaedic patients, managing the most complex cases addressing Occupational performance skills, patterns, context or contexts and activity demands in collaboration with patients and carers.

1. To undertake, and act as a source of expertise in providing Occupational Therapy Specialist multi-needs assessments using complex and advanced clinical reasoning demonstrating critical thinking, reflection and analysis to develop individual and group goal and task oriented treatment plans.
2. To carry out the most complex physical and functional assessments and treatments using dexterity, co-ordination, manual and sensory skills to facilitate and promote functional independence.
3. To lead and manage Occupational Therapy Staff within the Orthopaedic team providing effective guidance, supervision and performance management including the education and management of students on practice placements. To contribute to the Trust’s, Directorates and Teams Clinical Governance and Quality assurance programmes, setting and monitoring practice standards, jointly developing guidelines and protocols with the Occupational Therapy Service and in liaison with interdisciplinary colleagues.
4. To inform the Occupational Therapy Service of changes in Clinical practice which may influence Occupational Therapy Service delivery, business planning and strategic reviews to support the delivery of the annual Occupational Therapy plan, meeting agreed objectives.
5. To articulate and work to the value base and principles which underpin Occupational Therapy practice representing the unique role of Occupational Therapy in relation to interdisciplinary working.
6. To use effective interpersonal skills to communicate complex and frequently unwelcome news regarding prognosis where agreement and co-operation is required and where there are barriers to understanding such as vulnerable and at risk patients

This advert closes on Thursday 28 Nov 2024