King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has 300+ therapy staff from occupational therapy, physiotherapy and speech and language therapy. Each service has a head of profession accountable to the chief of therapies who represents therapies across the trust. We focus on equitable provision and shared decision making with our patients.

We value continuing professional development to ensure all staff develop skills and knowledge to reach their full potential. You will be encouraged and supported to develop your clinical and teaching skills and become involved with in-service development.

This is an exciting opportunity to lead the Critical Care Occupational Therapy Team at King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Denmark Hill site. The role requires an experienced occupational therapist with expert knowledge of managing critically ill patients and post-intensive care syndrome. The role also requires someone with knowledge and experience of team management and leadership and the ability to plan and develop services.

The expanding Critical Care Centre transforms the care of our most seriously ill patients. This is a challenging and interesting position that combines expert clinical input, teaching, service and staff development, team leadership and management. You will be responsible for the running of your team including clinical governance, managing capacity and demand of the caseload and managerial administrative tasks.

Main duties of the job

You will lead the critical care occupational therapy service, focusing on staff and service development to provide the best possible patient care through evidence-based practice. You will ensure the team are up-to-date with research developments and local and national guidelines. You will be expected to provide innovative thinking, teaching and external representation of this unique role.

You will demonstrate excellent team management skills and interpersonal skills and use a variety of methods of communication. You will motivate your team to proactively identify learning needs, participate and lead teaching sessions. You will be forward thinking and identify areas for service development.

You will have expert skills and experience in the management, assessment and rehabilitation of patients who are critically ill. You will have expert knowledge of management of disability, disorders of consciousness, cognitive changes, upper limb interventions including splinting and typical medical, surgical and neurological conditions to guide your team in treatment approaches and discharge planning.

You will display excellent partnership working with patients, their families/carers, multi-disciplinary teams, social services and intermediate care as well as managers and consultants at both a clinical and service level.

You will have a flexible approach to working across sites and a commitment to working weekends on a 7-day rota.

About us

King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK's largest and busiest teaching Trusts with a turnover of c�1 billion, 1.5 million patient contacts a year and more than 15,000 staff based across South East London. The Trust provides a full range of local and specialist services across its five sites. The trust-wide strategy of Strong Roots, Global Reach is our Vision to be BOLD, Brilliant people, Outstanding care, Leaders in Research, Innovation and Education, Diversity, Equality and Inclusion at the heart of everything we do. By being person-centred, digitally-enabled, and focused on sustainability, we aim to take Team King's to another level.

We are at a pivotal point in our history and we require individuals who are ready to join a highly professional team and make a real, lasting difference to our patients and our people.

King's is committed to delivering Sustainable Healthcare for All via our Green Plan. In line with national Greener NHS ambitions, we have set net zero carbon targets of 2040 for our NHS Carbon Footprint and 2045 for our NHS Carbon Footprint Plus. Everyone's contribution is required in order to meet the goals set out in our Green Plan and we encourage all staff to work responsibly, minimising their contributions to the Trust's carbon emissions, waste and pollution wherever possible.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Job Description and Main Responsibilities:

CLINICAL

To organise and manage the specialist provision of occupational therapy critical care services and rehabilitation to patients

To work at an advanced clinical level within critical care, particularly in the assessment, diagnosis and management of complex patients

To use analytical and judgement skills to diagnose occupational difficulties (physical, cognitive, perceptual and emotive impact on functional performance), understand complex situations and formulate appropriate solutions

To develop programmes of care to meet the highly specialist and complex needs of patients that includes meeting the needs of patients and their extended support system. This practice should be evidence based and be in accordance with current research

To manage a clinical caseload to a high standard, including assessment, interventions and discharge planning. To carry out this care in accordance with research findings and evidence based practice

To plan and co-ordinate complex multi-disciplinary activities e.g. case conferences discharge planning and other keyworker activities

To work within local policies and procedures, national standards and guidelines and adhere to the Royal College of Occupational Therapy professional standards and ethics

To fulfil requirement to exert moderate physical effort to provide manual physical therapy within occupational therapy practice. To be able to manoeuvre patients and specialist equipment safely and effectively

To supervise, train and provide day-to-day management to occupational therapists and assistants

To provide advice/support to occupational therapy colleagues on clinical practice issues and service development initiatives

To propose and action changes, develop, organise and manage critical care occupational therapy services

To consult with occupational therapists within the trust and external to the trust regarding critical care occupational therapy

To work across disciplines and services to develop protocols and procedures

To liaise with the service manager, therapy lead and critical care consultants to agree protocols/care pathways for the assessment and management of patients

To work with the head/ deputy head of occupational therapy and service managers, therapy leads and consultants to develop a service for patients with complex presentations

To liaise with consultants and managers regarding service developments and changes in practice.

COMMUNICATION

To establish robust communication networks with patients, carers, multidisciplinary members and other agencies.

To ensure a quality service for patients by maintaining a high standard in relation to communication with patients, liaison with referrers and other team members, and documentation of intervention

To promote awareness of the role of occupational therapy within the team, negotiating priorities where appropriate

To ensure that up to date written and electronic records and activity data are maintained across the critical care occupational therapy service in accordance with professional and trust standards and provide reports relevant to practice setting

To write good quality occupational therapy functional and discharge reports for social services, onward inpatient services and community services

To represent occupational therapy at ward, departmental and service level meetings, including delegation for the clinical lead occupational therapist

To provide and receive complex, diagnosis related information (including providing information regarding rehabilitation prospects that may be unwelcome) to patients and their social environment that may involve empathetic, re-assurance, persuasion and negotiation skills. Barriers to understanding may be present.

MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATION

To keep comprehensive records of activity in accordance with local and national requirements

Ensure ongoing evaluation of the service provided against agreed outcomes

To provide occupational therapy input to service planning, developments and operational management, as required

To provide input into clinical governance, risk management and quality programmes

To ensure management across critical care of student placement offers and individually supervise and complete yearly appraisal with staff and/or students

To be aware of the importance of staff wellbeing, accessing trust support as required and raising any concerns

To evaluate the service requirements for occupational therapy input in order to maximise the potential for rehabilitation

Attend and contribute to relevant critical care service and occupational therapy department meetings

To be actively engaged in relevant professional networks

To develop and implement relevant policies for own area and propose changes that applies to rest of department to occupational therapy in liaison with other clinical leads and head/ deputy head of occupational therapy

To be aware of, interpret for specialist area and implement codes of practice, local and national guidelines

To be responsible for the safe use of equipment and be responsible for encouraging the team reporting of defective equipment

Responsible for maintaining stock control systems

Authorised signatory for small petty cash payments, social services small equipment (up to value of �300) and locum timesheets

To be actively involved in recruitment of new staff

To abide by clinical governance agenda and responsible for appropriate risk management

TRAINING, EDUCATION AND RESEARCH

Prepare and participate in lectures, seminars, specialist training programmes and demonstrations to occupational therapists and members of other disciplines both within and external to the trust

To provide practical training and clinical supervision within discipline to students on clinical placement and staff within the service

To participate in the occupational therapy preceptorship provision within the trust and encourage participation by the team

To take responsibility for keeping own specialist knowledge up to date and maintaining evidence based clinical expertise, acting as a resource in this clinical area

To participate in and develop as appropriate occupational therapy or multidisciplinary research, and actively participate in any evaluation or research projects within the unit as appropriate and as agreed

To undertake clinical audit and service evaluation both within the trust and on a national level, taking the lead role where appropriate

General

The post holder has a general duty of care for their own health, safety and wellbeing and that of work colleagues, visitors and patients within the hospital, in addition to any specific risk management or clinical governance accountabilities associated with this post.

To observe the rules, policies, procedures and standards of King's College Hospital NHS Trust together with all relevant statutory and professional obligations.

To live and role model the Kings Trust Values and Vision.

To observe and maintain strict confidentiality of personal information relating to patients and staff.

To be responsible, with management support, for their own personal development and to actively contribute to the development of colleagues.

This job description is intended as a guide to the general scope of duties and is not intended to be definitive or restrictive. It is expected that some of the duties will change over time and this description will be subject to review in consultation with the post holder.

All employees must hold an 'nhs.net' email account which will be the Trust's formal route for email communication.

Safe Guarding

The Trust takes the issues of Safeguarding Children, Adults and addressing Domestic Abuse very seriously. All employees have a responsibilityto support the organisation in our duties by

• attending mandatory training on safeguarding children and adults
• familiarising themselves with the Trust's processes for reporting concerns
• reportingany safeguarding child or adult concerns appropriately

Infection Control Statement

The post holder has an important responsibility for and contribution to infection control and must be familiar with the infection control and hygiene procedures and requirements when in clinical areas.

The post holder has an important responsibility for and contribution to make to infection control and must be familiar with the infection control and hygiene requirements of this role.

These requirements are set out in the National Code of Practice on Infection Control and in local policies and procedures which will be made clear during your induction and subsequent refresher training. These standards must be strictly complied with at all times.

Person Specification

Acute experience

Essential

• Band 7 and above acute setting experience working within Critcal Care

Desirable

• Band 8a acute setting experience working within Critical Care

Management and leadership

Essential

• Experience of operational management and leadership of staff

Desirable

• Management and leadership training at Dip/Msc levels

Communication

Essential

• High standards of verbal and written communication

Desirable

• Published journals or articles

Employer details

Employer name

King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Address

King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Denmark Hill

London

SE5 9RS

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