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At East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust:

We provide high quality services for the local population of over half a million people across East Lancashire and the surrounding area.

We employ over 9,500 staff, many of whom are internationally renowned and have won awards for their work.
We treat nearly three quarters of a million patients a year from the most serious of emergencies to planned operations and procedures.
We offer care across Three hospital sites, and various community sites, using state-of-the-art facilities.

In this section you’ll find information about our hospitals, the goals the Trust is working hard to achieve, the annual plan and reports on how we are performing.

We are always try to deliver the highest quality care to our patients and have ambitious plans to continue to improve the services we offer in response to the changing needs of our patients.

Background.

East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust is an NHS Organisation, which was formed on the 1st April 2003, following the merger of Blackburn Hyndburn and Ribble Valley Health Care NHS Trust and Burnley Health Care NHS Trust.

In addition to a full range of acute hospital services the trust is a growing centre for emergency hospital services, Hepato Biliary, Head and Neck and Urological Cancer services, a growing centre for Cardiology services and a network provider of Level III Neonatal Intensive Care.

The Trust has a total of over 950 inpatient beds at Burnley General Teaching Hospital and Royal Blackburn Teaching Hospital. Inpatient rehabilitation services are also provided at Pendle Community Hospital and at the Rakehead Unit at Burnley General

Contact

Address: Royal Blackburn Teaching Hospital; Haslingden Road; Blackburn; Lancashire; BB2 3HH
Contact Number: 01254732075

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Ref: 435-D017-23 Vacancy ID: 4937431

Orthopaedic Occupational Therapist

Closed for applications on: 2-Mar-2023 10:31

Vacancy status: Closed

Closed for applications on: 2-Mar-2023 10:31

Location

Site: BGH (some cross cover at RBH)
Address: Casterton Avenue
Town: Burnley
Postcode: BB10 2PQ
Major / Minor Region: Lancashire

Contract type & working pattern

Contract

Permanent: Weekend Working rota 8-8

Hours

Part time
Other

30 hours per week (30 hours being advertised however less hours could be negotiated.)

Salary

Salary: £33,706 - £40,588 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Grade: (Band 6)

Specialty

Main area: Occupational Therapist

At East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust our vision is to be widely recognised for providing safe, personal and effective care. We currently provide high quality services and treat over 600,000 people across East Lancashire and the surrounding area. We employ over 9,500 staff, many of whom are internationally renowned and have won awards for their work.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

1. Undertake a comprehensive Occupational Therapy assessment at a specialist level with patients, allocated to your caseload. This may involve the selection and application of standardised and non-standardised assessments addressing occupational performance.

2. Interpret and analyse clinical and non-clinical factors including physical, environmental, psychosocial, mental, spiritual, political and cultural aspects of the patient’s life, in order to identify occupational performance deficits, and provide specialist advice and intervention for the facilitation of optimum level of occupational functioning. This will require the post holder to consider a range of options, some of which may conflict and require

negotiation, having to consider the needs of individuals, families and carers.

3. Formulate goals in partnership with the patient, clearly communicating your clinical reasoning, in order to justify your recommendations, and utilising most appropriate treatment/intervention for the patients’ needs.

4. Implement a variety of evidence based Occupational Therapy interventions to a specialist level according to the needs of the individual patient.

5. Evaluate and modify the treatment programme as appropriate, implement moving, handling and positioning of patients to enable to participate in treatment episodes and carry out activities of daily living.

6. Independently manage a varied and complex caseload on a day to day basis, organising your time effectively and efficiently with regard to clinical priorities; ensuring good use of skills within the team by delegating and allocating work to junior staff as appropriate. (Integrated Therapy Asssitants)

7. Advise, support, and educate patients, carers and other professionals in the self management of patient’s condition.

8. Initiate and organise case reviews involving multi disciplinary and multi agency staff. The post holder may be required to take the key worker role.

9. Develop, maintain and demonstrate specialist clinical skills related to clinical area, which are underpinned by theory, research and practical experience.

10. Responsible for assessing for and recommending both minor adaptations / environmental modifications, seeking advice from senior staff when necessary. This will require a good working knowledge of the process of eligibility for specialist equipment and disabled facilities grants, and being able to explain the process to others.

11. Assess for and provide standard and specialist assistive technology for patients in accordance with local criteria and pathways for provision.

12. Advise, instruct, and educate patients, carers and other professionals in the use of standard and specialist assistive technology, and environmental adaptation where appropriate.

13. Undertake risk assessments, and manage and document risk.

14. Have the ability to deal with unexpected events during the course of duties in a specialist area. Complete incident reports in line with Trust guidelines.

15. Work as an autonomous practitioner where there is a requirement to make decisions to optimise patients recovery, develop and adopt rehab programmes in relation to patient goals.

16. Actively involved with research activities including literature searching.

17. Work across agencies and have a working knowledge and understanding of the systems within Health and Social Services in order to facilitate the recommendation of treatment approach, equipment, access, and adaptation issues.

18. Understand and demonstrate a working knowledge of national guidelines and legislation relating to Health and Social Care relevant to Occupational Therapy. Undertake evaluation of work and current practices through use of audit, reflective practice and outcome measures and make recommendations for change.

19. Record patient contact statistics.

20. Delegate, monitor, organise, and supervise the work of junior staff as appropriate.

21. Actively involved in the day to day running of the department.

22. Deputise for clinical team leader in the day to day running of the department as required.

23. Is a member of the team and shares information as required.

24. Maintain treatment areas and equipment used to an appropriate standard in accordance with health and safety, infection control, and other relevant guidance.

25. Assess capacity of patients in order to gain valid informed consent for intervention and work within organisational policy with patients who lack capacity.

COMMUNICATION

1. Communicate effectively and work collaboratively with medical, nursing, therapy, education, social services staff, and others to ensure the delivery of a coordinated multi disciplinary and multi agency approach and facilitate and maintain good working relationships.

2. Communicate complex or sensitive information, in an empathetic and reassuring manner to patients and carers in a language understandable to them. This may include imparting unwelcome news relating to future needs.

3. Use a range of techniques to overcome barriers to communication.

4. Adapt your own communication style and utilise advanced communication skills appropriate to the patient in order to foster an effective therapeutic relationship.

5. Deal with challenging situations including verbal aggression/distress from patients, carers and relatives.

6. Advise, instruct, and educate patients, carers and other professionals regarding the occupational therapy process.

7. Maintain the ability to communicate effectively when faced with situations of conflict or high emotion from patients, carers, family and other staff members.

8. Promote and educate others regarding the role of Occupational Therapy and the importance of occupational to health and well being.

9. Provide comprehensive occupational therapy reports clearly outlining clinical reasoning and recommendations.

10. Provide clear information (verbal and written) regarding Occupational Therapy intervention in a variety of settings.

11. Ensure that up to date written and electronic records and activity data are maintained in accordance with professional standards and organisational guidance.

12. Have basic IT skills including use of Internet, E-mail and any special programmes used within the service.

13. Ensure that resources are available to meet the differing communication needs of the population e.g. ethnic minorities, hearing impaired, etc.

14. Attend and participate in team meetings. Taking the lead when required.

15. Assist the Occupational Therapy Service in involving service users, their carers and family in service improvements.

16. Act as an advocate on behalf of patients.

TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT

1. Continue to develop and demonstrate skills related to Occupational Therapy / specialist clinical area, to a specialist level, ensuring that those skills are underpinned by philosophy, theory and professional standards.

2. Keep up to date with evidence based practice.

3. Complete all required mandatory training.

4. Responsible for your own continuing professional development including maintaining your own developmental portfolio and assisting others in the development of theirs.

5. Participate in your own annual development review and supervision, undertaking post registration training related to area of work as required.

6. Responsible for the support and supervision of qualified and support staff as required and as outlined in service guidance.

7. Take responsibility for the learning of students and nurses as required, and be willing to work towards accreditation.

8. Involvement in research activity, e.g. journal clubs, evidence based practice and clinical audit as required.

9. Provide training to colleagues, the wider multi disciplinary team, and other agencies as required.

10. Keep up to date with relevant legislation and current issues relating to occupational therapy in your area of work in areas such as Health, Housing, Social Services, and Education.

ORGANISATIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Promote and implement organisational policies, procedures, standards and guidance.

2. Act as agents and make prescriptions/recommendations against the budget of other organisations e.g. Social Services, Education, local authorities, for equipment and adaptations.

3. Responsible for the induction of new staff as required.

4. Work towards achieving service and organisational objectives.

5. Undertake/lead tasks related to team/ service development/governance as required.

6. Participate in the recruitment and selection of Occupational Therapists and/or support staff as required.

7. Able to deal sensitively with complaints following procedures, managing them where necessary and directing them to an appropriate person within the team, if required.

Dear Potential Applicant,

It is important you are made aware of the following as regards your application to East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust

Please note that the salary advertised is for full time hours. If this post is less than 37.5 hours per week, the salary will be pro-rata. For posts on Agenda for Change pay-scales, new entrants to the NHS will normally commence on the first pay point of the relevant band.
This vacancy may close before the closing date if the recruiting manager deems sufficient applications have been received. Therefore it is advised to complete your application as early as possible to avoid disappointment.
Please ensure you check the email account from which you apply regularly as we will use this to contact you regarding your application.
Please note that shortlisting is completed anonymously with candidates being assessed against the essential criteria for the post. Therefore only applicants, who can clearly demonstrate how they meet our person specification criteria in their application, will be short-listed.

Disclosure and Barring Scheme (DBS)

If the role you are applying for is identified as either controlled or regulated activity as defined in in the Safeguarding vulnerable Groups Act (2006) any offer of employment is provisional upon a satisfactory DBS check being obtained.

The healthcare sector is exempted from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.

In line with other NHS organisations in the North West Region, the Trust is now passing the charge for undertaking a DBS check on to candidates in the event they are successfully appointed into the post for which they have applied. Candidates can choose whether to pay this over 1-3 months as a deduction from the monthly salary. However, if you are applying for a post as a BANK worker, the payment must be made in full at the time of employment checks. By applying for this vacancy you are agreeing to this undertaking in the event you are successfully appointed.

The cost of an Enhanced Disclosure will be £42.90 and for a Standard Disclosure £22.90 which includes a small handling fee.

This cost is not applicable for a Volunteer post

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The Trust is an equal opportunities employer, committed to improving the working lives of our staff and operates a 'Zero Tolerance' policy to aggression, violence, bullying and harassment. In addition, our aim is to help protect children and vulnerable adults by providing a first-class service to the recruitment of people into positions of trust.

We aim to employ a workforce that reflects the diverse communities we serve.

We welcome applications from everyone irrespective of ethnic origin, gender, age, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, marital status, disability or social background.

We especially welcome applications from members of our black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) communities, as we have identified that ELHT has an under-representation of BAME employees. Appointments will be made on merit.

Applicants who have a disability and meet the essential criteria for the job will be interviewed if you indicate you wish to be considered under the Guaranteed Interview Scheme.

If you require a reasonable adjustment at any stage of the recruitment process please make the recruitment services team aware as soon as possible. By telephone 01254 732075 or email [email protected] or write to Employment Services, Parkview Offices, Haslingden Road, Blackburn, BB2 3HH

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

Diploma/Degree in Occupational Therapy

Experience and Skills

Essential criteria

Post graduate therapy experience in a relevant setting.
Able to use a variety of assessments/interventions.
Supervision skills
Advanced communication skills
Workload management skills
Research skills.

Other

Essential criteria

HCPC registered.
Commitment to lifelong learning
Car driver and has access to a car undertake visits in the community as required
Ability to work weekends on a rota

Documents

Further details / informal visits contact

Name: Rebecca Hope
Job title: Operational Therapy Manager
Email address: [email protected]
Telephone number: 01254 732415
Additional information: Louise Davies - Head of Acute Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy on 01254 733049.