Occupational Therapy Team Lead in Acute Neuro Team
Occupational Therapy Team Lead in Acute Neuro Team
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We are looking for an enthusiastic and innovative Occupational Therapist to join our established Acute Neuro Team (ANT) at the Queen Alexandra Hospital Portsmouth.
The Acute Neuro Team is an integrated multi-disciplinary team of Occupational Therapists Physiotherapists Specialist Nurses and Therapy Assistant Practitioners. The team provides a specialist neurological service to acute patients with a new neurological diagnosis across wards throughout the Trust including critical care. The caseload often includes acquired brain injury Guillain-Barre Syndrome encephalitis and other acute neurological presentations.
You will provide clinical and operational leadership to the team manage a varied clinical caseload complete specialist assessments complete treatment sessions and formulate discharge plans. You will contribute to determining patients onward pathways including referrals to our Level 2a inpatient rehabilitation unit and to community teams with whom we have strong links.
You will be responsible for the day-to-day operational management of the Acute Neuro Team and will lead on service development initiatives. We are seeking an individual with excellent time management and organisational skills a flexible approach and strong interpersonal and leadership skills.
In this role you will work closely with other therapy leads and teams across Neurology Stroke and the wider therapy service to provide high-quality care and interventions to patients in the acute stages of their recovery; and to provide education and training to Multidisciplinary Team.
This post offers a fantastic opportunity to develop both clinically and managerially in a fast-paced acute environment working towards all four pillars of practice and to build on your specialist skills in neurology. You will be well supported by the Therapy Clinical Lead and the Trainee Advanced Clinical Practitioner for Neurology and Stroke. You will also have a network of other Occupational Therapy Team Leads and Clinical Specialists within PHU and local Trusts for peer support.
You will be supported in the development of your management and leadership skills by participating in PHUs Management Essentials and Leadership Insights training. You will be able to further your clinical skills through access to external courses.
If you have a minimum of 4 years post-graduate experience with at least 2 years in the fields of Neurology or Stroke and you are a car driver with access to a car with business insurance wed love to talk to you about this post.
We pride ourselves on our approach to flexible working and are happy to discuss full-time or part-time working.
For an informal discussion please contact:
Please refer to the Job description for further details:
Qualifications :
Essential
- Degree / diploma n occupational Therapy
- HCPC registered
- Member of RCOT
- Evidence of post-graduate training / qualification relevant to this clinical field
Experience
Essential
- Experience of Audit
- Experience of presenting complex data to a range of different audiences
- Experience of working with regional/national networks
- Acute hospital experience 2 years minimum
- Experience of supervising and mentoring junior members of staff and pre-registration students
- Experience of providing clinical/professional leadership to junior members of staff
- Experience of working collaboratively with across teams
- Ability to lead and influence change
- Sound level of theoretical profession specific knowledge
- Sound knowledge of the multi-disciplinary team
- Sound knowledge of interventions relevant to clinical area
Additional Information :
The health and wellbeing of our staff is at the forefront of everything we do. We are proud to be able to offer our staff some fantastic benefits including our on-site Nursery access to our free Beach Hut for those long summer days our on-site Wellness Centre including a gym and a swimming pool access to our fantastic staff networks including LGBTQ Race Equality and DisAbility and awards ceremonies to recognise your achievements. We believe we can offer support to all of our staff when they need it the most.
We welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of your education opinions culture ethnicity race sex gender identity and expression nation of origin age languages spoken veterans status colour religion disability sexual orientation and beliefs.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Full-time
Employment Type
Full-time
