Job summary
The future of Health Care is changing and the Admission Avoidance Team is crucial to delivering the vision, therefore we are expanding our service to enable us to deliver innovations such as the Virtual Ward and Hospital at Home model of care. We are a multidisciplinary team of expert clinicians who support service users in crisis to remain at home. We are looking for an inspirational Occupational Therapist who would like to further develop their clinical and leadership skills within a friendly and dynamic team.
You may be wanting to progress from a Band 5 role or looking to diversify your clinical experience within our fast paced and exciting team. You must be passionate about motivating and engaging staff to ensure the delivery of effective and efficient high quality care and be comfortable with change.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will work within a team consisting of Advanced Clinical Practitioners, Nurses, Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Support Workers and Nurse Associate who operate 7 days a week between 08:00 and 22:00. As a Band 6 Occupational Therapist you will be expected to support the team to deliver a high standard of care through the demonstration of excellent clinical and leadership skills. You will be an effective team player who possesses high level problem solving skills and who can readily adapt to the changing demands of the service is essential.
As part of the role you will work very closely with the other teams within the Intermediate Tier to achieve our goal of preventing avoidable hospital admissions and facilitating discharge from hospital. Intermediate Care services are continually developing and this is an exciting opportunity to be at the forefront of developing an essential service that is pivotal in preventing hospital admissions.
We are looking for people who share our core Trust values, which are:
'Vision, Openness, Integrity, Compassion, Excellence '
The applicant must be a driver with access to a vehicle for work purposes subject to the provisions of the Equality Act and have the ability to work flexible hours across 7 days a week.
About us
Bolton NHS Foundation Trust is an integrated provider of acute, intermediate and community health care serving the population of Bolton. This provides us with an opportunity for our services to work closely with our partners in primary care and the local authority to ensure a seamless service for our patients.
Here at Bolton our patients and people are at the heart of everything we do. We ensure our patients receive the highest quality of care and are guided by our trust Values. We are proud that our Trust is a centre of excellence formaternity, neonataland care for children, and that it has been rated as Good by the Quality Care Commission (CQC). This is in recognition of the patient experience and quality of care that our staff provide to patients. It is also supported by our Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health Professional Framework for Professional Practice.
The aims of this Trust are to improve the health of our people and provide the best possible care to the population in which we serve and ensure that our staff have joy and pride in their work. We are striving to recruit a workforce that reflects the communities in which we serve. Staff are valued and we can offer excellent opportunities for further training and development.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For further information regarding the key responsibilities of this role please see the attached job description. If you have any further questions regarding this role please do not hesitate to contact us via the information below.So, if you are someone with the skills and abilities, and drive and determination to deliver excellent services for the benefit of our patients and their families, then we would love to hear from you.You are encouraged to maintain your Covid vaccination status unless medically exempt and will be supported to access information and guidance, to inform decisions that supports vaccine confidence, protects yourself and patients.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For further information regarding the key responsibilities of this role please see the attached job description. If you have any further questions regarding this role please do not hesitate to contact us via the information below.So, if you are someone with the skills and abilities, and drive and determination to deliver excellent services for the benefit of our patients and their families, then we would love to hear from you.You are encouraged to maintain your Covid vaccination status unless medically exempt and will be supported to access information and guidance, to inform decisions that supports vaccine confidence, protects yourself and patients.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree or equivalent in Occupational Therapy
- Current professional registration with HPC as Occupational Therapist
- Evidence of CPD in related field of clinical expertise
- Current accredited field work educator.
Desirable
- Post graduate qualification in specialist field
Knowledge
Essential
- Understanding of the quality and governance framework and implications for practice including audit and research governance.
- Understanding of the Health & Social Care Integration agenda
- depth understanding of current NHS/government policy/Public Health/NICE guidelines
- Change management skills
- Excellent time management skills
Experience
Essential
- Treatment of a broad range of conditions relating to clinical speciality
- Demonstrable evidence of improving and developing service and practice
- Evidence of leading and implementing clinical change
- Supervision and/or mentoring of staff/students
- Multi-disciplinary/multi-agency collaborative working.
Skills
Essential
- Ability to communicate highly complex pathologies and diagnostic reasoning to all levels in the medical and non-medical field at the appropriate level
- Show initiative, enthusiasm and motivation for excellence and the development of self and others
- Experience of stakeholder negotiation and persuasion skills.
- Sound understand of Safeguarding agenda including the ability to undertake MCA and DOLS
- Problem solving /Decision making in relation to clinical practice
- -Able to work independently as lead specialist, demonstrating good leadership skills
- Developing and providing health education and information in range of formats as appropriate for wide range of stakeholders
- Ability to analyse and interpret data/complex evidence and apply to practice.
- Good competent IT knowledge including ability to use range of Microsoft office products to fulfil role (e.g. Word and Excel).
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree or equivalent in Occupational Therapy
- Current professional registration with HPC as Occupational Therapist
- Evidence of CPD in related field of clinical expertise
- Current accredited field work educator.
Desirable
- Post graduate qualification in specialist field
Knowledge
Essential
- Understanding of the quality and governance framework and implications for practice including audit and research governance.
- Understanding of the Health & Social Care Integration agenda
- depth understanding of current NHS/government policy/Public Health/NICE guidelines
- Change management skills
- Excellent time management skills
Experience
Essential
- Treatment of a broad range of conditions relating to clinical speciality
- Demonstrable evidence of improving and developing service and practice
- Evidence of leading and implementing clinical change
- Supervision and/or mentoring of staff/students
- Multi-disciplinary/multi-agency collaborative working.
Skills
Essential
- Ability to communicate highly complex pathologies and diagnostic reasoning to all levels in the medical and non-medical field at the appropriate level
- Show initiative, enthusiasm and motivation for excellence and the development of self and others
- Experience of stakeholder negotiation and persuasion skills.
- Sound understand of Safeguarding agenda including the ability to undertake MCA and DOLS
- Problem solving /Decision making in relation to clinical practice
- -Able to work independently as lead specialist, demonstrating good leadership skills
- Developing and providing health education and information in range of formats as appropriate for wide range of stakeholders
- Ability to analyse and interpret data/complex evidence and apply to practice.
- Good competent IT knowledge including ability to use range of Microsoft office products to fulfil role (e.g. Word and Excel).
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.
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).
Additional information
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).
