Job Description

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an existing band 7 or experienced band 6 to join the Critical Care and Surgery Team, based at Nottingham City Hospital. This maternity cover, secondment/fixed term post is a full-time role of 37.5 hours working in a variety of specialities.



We are looking for a highly motivated and dynamic individual who is committed to leading on clinical practice, evolving the Occupational Therapy role and developing patient pathways. The successful candidate will be committed to providing high quality care and is required to demonstrate advanced level hyper-acute and acute assessments, interventions including rehabilitation. Stroke and/or neuro experience is essential for this role and experience of critical care is desirable.



The successful candidate will be responsible for leading and developing the team's clinical skills, providing strong leadership, teaching and service development. This role provides a good opportunity to develop across all pillars of practice whilst working within a supportive and motivated team.

The clinical areas covered in this role include:

Cardiac Surgery, Cardiology, Critical Care, Upper GI Surgery, Thoracic Surgery, Infectious Diseases, Urology Surgery, Urology Medicine, Colorectal Surgery and Gynaecology Surgery.



The role also requires the individual to be an active member of the weekend working rota.



Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details. The role includes, but is not limited:



Demonstrating advanced level patient assessment and intervention as appropriate in the relevant areas (including hyper-acute assessments and rehabilitation)

Promoting a rehabilitative approach across the service

Leading and providing clinical support to all members of the team

Supporting the team with cognitive assessments and rehabilitation, taking a creative approach e.g. for long stay critical care patients or those with hypoxic brain injury

Providing supervision to staff members (including band 6, band 5, support workers and students)

Undertaking relevant managerial and operational duties and responsibilities, balancing this with clinical tasks accordingly

Working alongside Therapy Service Managers and senior OT colleagues to develop the service in line with evidence-based practice

Supporting student placements within the team and provide formal and informal training

Working as part of the multidisciplinary team in all clinical areas

Contributing to the education of the team and wider MDT

Ensuring that high quality evidence-based practice, service development and education underpin the service delivery



Embedding NUH's values and behaviours within everyday practice



With over 19,000 staff, we are one of the biggest employers in the city with a central role in supporting the health and wellbeing of our local population. We play a leading role in research, education and innovation.



Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!



The OT service is part of the Therapies, Outpatients and Phlebotomy Services (TOPS) Directorate, within the Specialist Clinical Services care group. We are a diverse directorate of AHPs, nursing and support staff, employing around 1000 staff, working together to deliver the high quality care we aspire to. Our HCPC registered AHP professionals comprise of physiotherapists, dietitians, occupational therapists, orthotists, prosthetists and speech and language therapists. We have a Chief AHP to lead us on our strategic direction, and many of the directorate leadership team have AHP backgrounds to support our staff. There are also Practice Development Therapists to support career development for all.



We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.



Please see attached the and Person Specification for further details around the post.



Fixed term contract or secondment for 12 months



Full time, 37.5h - core hours are Monday-Friday, 8am-4pm



Additional duties will include participation in weekend working, once every 6-8 weeks depending on service need.