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Owing to service developments, an exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic Occupational Therapist to co-lead our specialist inpatient team providing a service to elective orthopaedics. This is a fast paced environment with short lengths of stay for patients undergoing a range of joint replacement surgeries.
Later this year, much of the service will be provided from the new elective care centre on the Southmead site.
This advert may close early, if we have received a sufficient amount of applications. Therefore you are highly advised to apply as soon as possible if you are interested in this position.
The caseload is varied, covering pre-operative clinics and medirooms in addition to ward based therapy. This includes planned joint replacement surgeries, requiring a range of therapeutic skills to assess function, social and environmental needs for discharge planning and onward referrals.
There is close team working and links with community partners in the wider health and care system to address needs at all stages of the clinical pathway, with occupational therapy playing a crucial role.
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Provide and develop a highly specialist Occupational Therapy service to patients within specialty area, providing advanced clinical leadership and acting as a clinical advisor for the specialty to occupational therapists working in North Bristol NHS Trust.
Work as an autonomous and highly skilled clinician, without supervision, and be 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.
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.
Ensure staff in the team are supervised and developed, and deal with staffing issues as they arise.
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.
Provide training and education to other health care professionals.
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.
Provide highly specialist clinical and service development advice, and act as a specialist resource within the occupational therapy service.
Contribute to undergraduate occupational therapy education and regularly supervise students on practice placement.
Provide specialist input and professional leadership in service development projects within specialty, representing the Occupational Therapy service.