Clinical Specialist Occupational Therapist

The Specialist Therapy Assessment Team (STAT) is a service with Physiotherapists and Occupational Therapists working in transdisciplinary roles to provide a highly specialist 7 day Therapy Service to a complex caseload of patients in the Emergency Department and Acute Medical wards. Input consists of transdisciplinary assessments and complex discharge planning / admission prevention as well as acute therapeutic intervention and commencement of rehabilitation early in the patient pathway., The post holder, whether an Occupational Therapist or Physiotherapist would be responsible for leading, developing and supporting all therapy staff within the Emergency and Acute Medicine Service, leading on service improvements and relevant initiatives.

• To manage the a highly complex caseload within the Emergency Department including Emergency Medical Unit, Acute Frailty Unit and the Admissions ward using advanced clinical reasoning, critical thinking, reflection and analysis to support assessments using a client centred approach.
• To act as a specialist advisor to the Emergency and Acute Medicine Services regarding Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy services and roles.
• To lead a designated team of both Occupational Therapists and Physiotherapists, providing leadership for Specialist, senior and junior staff and Therapy Assistants through supervision and performance management., To be responsible for providing the most complex individual and group client centred assessments to STAT and Acute Medicine patients, managing complex cases by addressing functional impairments and occupational performance skills, patterns, context or contexts and activity demands in collaboration with patients and carers and extended scope competencies including Comprehensive Geriatric Assessments with appropriate training provided.
• To have expert knowledge in the physical and mental health conditions that commonly result in A&E attendance and emergency admissions to hospital.
• To have specific in-depth knowledge and expertise in cognitive and perceptual assessment and intervention, including around mental capacity and appropriate management of these patients.
• To lead and manage Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy Staff within STAT, providing effective guidance, supervision and performance management including the education and management of students on practice placements.
  
  An exciting opportunity has arisen for a clinical specialist occupational therapist/physiotherapist to work as part of an established and dynamic A&E multi-disciplinary therapy team. We seek an individual who is autonomous, forward thinking and enthusiastic to work with us within the emergency, frailty and acute admissions area. The successful candidate will manage a variable clinical caseload with a high proportion of older adults in this fast paced environment.
Our large and well-established multi-disciplinary A&E team will support the successful candidate to further enhance and extend their assessment, intervention and clinical decision making skill set within this environment. The role requires working both extended hours and weekend/bank holiday working on a rota system within the emergency department. You will be expected to deputise for the Clinical Specialist when indicated to manage the team and clinical expectations of the service as needed. Robust evidence based practise, national guidelines, Adult Emergency Services Commissioning Standards and the Silver Book drive forward our vision and service delivery. Our Frailty service is developing to continue to support multi-professional assessment of our frail older population and drive forward best practice and improve outcomes for older people. Does this sound like the challenge that you are looking for and do you have the get up and go to meet our requirements - if so then, please apply!