Band 7 Renal Occupational Therapist

NHS; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000

Job description

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

Do you enjoy improving the lives of patients and their families with long term conditions?

Do you want to enhance your specialist knowledge and assessment skills?

Do you enjoy flexibility within a role?

Do you enjoy working within an MDT?

If so, then being a Renal Specialist Occupational Therapist is for you.

We have a very exciting opportunity for an experienced Occupational Therapist to join the specialist Renal team at Heartlands hospital. This is a relatively new position and so lots of opportunities for the applicant to develop both themselves clinically and in a leadership position as well as the role itself.

The caseload is mainly supporting working in an outreach capacity for long term renal patients in the community, enhancing their quality of life and maximising their potential. The role also involves some inpatient support of the Heartlands renal units and facilitating the transition from inpatient to the community.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will have to take a lead role in the advanced occupational therapy assessment, management and treatment of patients with diverse presentations and complex physical conditions; to provide a diagnosis and develop and deliver an individualised specialist treatment programme. This will be within both an inpatient and community setting. The role consists of supporting patients with long term renal disease with both their complex physical and psychological conditions. This includes a consultative role with relatives and staff providing advice, recommendations, support, training and instruction as identified.

The successful candidate will need to have experience of working within a MDT as a representative for therapy and lead in the training and development of clinical practice and service. To provide leadership and management daily to the therapy team within the specialist area, including supervision, appraisal, and development. To be involved in the recruitment process for these staff. The candidate will need to contribute to a seven-day working and extended service hours in specific areas.

About us

We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this. Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can. We offer our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives.

UHB is committed to ensuring that our staff are treated fairly and feel that they belong by creating a kind and inclusive environment. This is about equity of opportunity; removing all barriers, including discrimination and ensuring each individual member of staff reaches their true potential, achieves their ambitions, and thrives in their work. This is more than words. We are taking action. Our commitment to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation where every voice is heard, driven by our diverse and active staff networks, and at Board level by the Fairness Taskforce led by our CEO. We nurture a culture which empowers staff to challenge discriminatory behaviours and to enable people to bring their 'whole self' to a kinder, more connected and bold place to work.

University Hospitals Birmingham is a Smoke-Free premises hospital.

Job responsibilities

*Please Note: For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Degree or diploma in Occupational Therapy
• Registered with HPC
• Evidence of CPD including recent post-graduate training relevant to clinical speciality
• Evidence of leadership training
• Good standard of general education including GCSE English and maths grade C or above
• Fieldwork Educator's certificate or attendance at Clinical Educators Course

Experience

• Experience enabling the post holder to manage a caseload of patients with complex needs in this speciality and planning.
• Experience of staff management including supervision and development and performance management of staff
• A specialist knowledge across a range of OT treatments, routine and non-routine, requiring expertise within the field of Occupational Therapy.
• An ability to cope with a range of complex options, find solutions, analyse, compare and decide on the appropriate course of action.
• Understanding of current legislation and application to OT.
• Significant experience in education and clinical training of others.
• Teaching experience to university and multi-professional groups with evidence of ability to deliver high quality presentations.

Additional Criteria

• An ability to cope with patients/equipment on a daily basis
• An ability to frequently concentrate on patient assessments and treatments
• An ability to cope with occasional situations
• Demonstrate a forward-thinking and professional attitude
• Expertise within the relevant team
• Able to contribute to weekend service
• Ability to work varied shift patterns commensurate to service area
• Desirable: Able to drive with a maximum of 3 points on driving licence

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.