Occupational Therapy Team Leader - Orthopaedics / surgery | Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an OT with experience and an interest in orthopaedics and surgery to join the team at Wexham Park Hospital (WPH) as aband 7 Occupational Therapy Team Leaderproviding team leadership and helping to improve clinical expertise and pathways across site for Orthopaedic and surgical patients, including spinal patients.

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.

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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