Clinical Specialist Occupational Therapist for Long Covid

Fulltime 37.5hrs, but part time considered for the right candidate

12 month fixed term post or secondment

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Occupational Therapist to join the Long Covid Multi-Disciplinary Team working at Glenfield Hospital, Leicester. The service is looking for a passionate and creative individual who can help patients to manage their Lon Covid symptoms with particular focus on fatigue.

Main duties of the job

Long Covid is estimated to affect around 2 million people in the UK. Seventy-seven per cent of these people report that their symptoms impact their ability to take part in their daily activities with a portion of those people significant limited due to their Long COVID symptomology including those symptoms attributed to Chronic Fatigue.

The Outpatient Long Covid Occupational therapist will be responsible for the assessment and treatment of Long COVID patients within an outpatient setting using enhanced and specialist clinical decision-making skills. Work as part of the LLR Long COVID multi-disciplinary team managing adult Long COVID patients with significant fatigue symptoms

This role will be co-located with the physiotherapy team at Glenfield Hospital.

UHL Therapy service provides key therapeutic assessments and interventions to patients in order to promote health and independence and facilitate optimum function for patients.

The post holder will be accountable for the delivery of high quality therapy care within a defined clinical area or pathway within the specialty.

About us

Our new strategy, developed with the support and feedback of colleagues, patients, and partners, is our compass for the next seven years (2023-2030).

We have four primary goals:

• high-quality care for all,
• being a great place to work,
• partnerships for impact, and
• research and education excellence

And we will embed health equality in all we do - taking active steps to reduce the avoidable differences in healthcare that some people face, working in partnership with communities.

Our strategy is underpinned by new values and we will work to ensure they are an everyday reality for all:

• we are compassionate,
• we are proud,
• we are inclusive, and
• we are one team

This is an exciting moment as we look to the future with clarity on what we already do well and where we need to focus our energies to make an even bigger difference for the people we serve.

About the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust:

http://www.leicestershospitals.nhs.uk/aboutus/work-for-us/current-vacancies/

Job description

Job responsibilities

The Clinical Specialist will:-

• Provide clinical and professional leadership to Occupational Therapy colleagues in the speciality area
• Lead evaluate and develop clinical practice within a speciality ensuring compliance with national and local guidelines and frameworks
• Responsible for the clinical standards, evidence based practise and quality metrics within the speciality
• Work as an autonomous practitioner to provide specialist therapy assessments, diagnose and develop individualised treatment programmes based on the patients needs, using advanced clinical reasoning skills
• To be responsible for a clinical caseload which will include complex cases within their area of specialty.
• Undertake an active role in developing Occupational Therapy within the speciality
• Be responsible for the day to day management of the delivery of Occupational Therapy by the specialist team in an efficient and effective way within a fast and pressurised environment.
• Participate in the planning, development and evaluation of Occupational Therapy within the Specialist Team holding responsibility for defined projects
• Work alongside the Therapy Speciality Lead / Therapy Clinical Team Leader to develop links between the specialist Therapy team and relevant CMGs and Corporate Directorates within UHL.
• Ensure the training and development of staff within the Therapy speciality team
• Liaise with colleagues and work across site/cross specialty if appropriate in order to ensure the provision of a seamless equitable service
• Deputise for the Therapy Clinical Team Leader as appropriate
• Develop the evidence base for practice through audit, clinical effectiveness and research activity
• Assist and support the Therapy management team and Therapy Speciality Leads and Therapy Clinical Team Leaders within the service in the improvement and transformation of Therapy services

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• HCPC registration
• Previous employment as a Senior Therapist
• oEvidence of recent CPD specific to the speciality clinical area

Analuytical and Judgement skills

Essential

• Demonstrates awareness of own abilities and needs
• Demonstrates application of clinical supervision and appraisal of self and others, (to include both under graduate and post graduate staff).

Other Requirements

Essential

• Express enthusiasm for post and desire to work in clinical area
• oDemonstrates evidence of IT skills

Planning & Organisational

Essential

• Demonstrates effective coping skills for dealing with pressurised and unexpected situations.

Desirable

• Evidence of standard setting and service development
• oEvidence of willingness to take on new responsibilities and projects

Communication

Essential

• oDemonstrates knowledge of effective team working and evidence of multi-professional collaboration and joint working
• Demonstrates Leadership skills

Experience

Essential

• Significant post graduate clinical experience within a relevant area
• Experience of managing and leading a team

Desirable

• Experience in audit, service development and/or research

Employer details

Employer name

University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust

Address

Glenfield Hospital

Groby Road

Leicester

LE3 9QP

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358-6202513-CSI