Occupational Therapy Team Leader - Orthopaedics / surgery

This post would be suitable for current Band 7s or experienced Band 6s interested in progressing their career within orthopaedics/surgery or those experienced OTs who might be considering a return to practice.
You will play a major and specialist role to plan and provide advanced assessment, advice, evaluating treatment and clinical management for a defined caseload , for patients who have complex, acute and chronic presentations. Within the role you will also be part of the wider inpatient therapy team working closely with Occupational Therapists and Clinical Leads across our other units and the MDT.
Your role will be to contribute to the smooth running and overall service development of the team and actively participate in Continuing Professional Development, and service improvement, providing leadership through supervision, mentoring, education, and training.
Please note that we are unable to provide visa sponsorship for this position. Applicants must have the right to work in the UK., To provide expert clinical support and advise, alongside the Surgical OT Clinical Specialist, to the Orthopaedic/surgical OT team, linking closely with Physio and other professions. To hold a clinical caseload, providing excellent, high-quality person-centred clinical management, including patients who have complex acute and chronic presentations, determining the functional deficits and OT treatment within the busy orthopaedic ward settings, covering surgical patients when required and supporting on other teams when appropriate.
To strive to provide a service fit for today and the future, considering and inputting into the latest evidence-based practice, developing personal leadership to support clinical and service growth and staff development. You will have a key role in the development of a competent, knowledgeable workforce, equipping them to provide high-quality person-centred care.
Our teams across all sites have a friendly, supportive atmosphere and a real team ethic. We know how to look after our staff - making sure they achieve the ideal work-life balance. As a Trust we offer excellent training opportunities supported by an AHP practice development lead and OT PD post holder in addition to clinical advice and support from our OT clinical flow lead.
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You must be enthusiastic and dedicated with a real interest in orthopaedics. Effective communication skills, a flexible approach, and an ability to work under pressure, both as part of an multi-disciplinary team and independently are all essential skills for this post.

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.
Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.
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Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.
We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.
We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR - Epic - went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.
Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.