# Clinical Specialist Occupational Therapist- ITU, Respiratory & Surgery

**Company**: Ashford & St. Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
**Location**: Chertsey
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Salary**: £51657.00 to £58785.00
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

Join our vibrant and supportive team of Physiotherapists and Occupational Therapists at Ashford and St Peter's NHS Foundation Trust. We're looking for a passionate Band 7 Clinical Specialist Occupational Therapist to manage a small, dynamic team and drive service development within Critical Care and the Cardiorespiratory and Surgical wards.

As the Band 7, you will oversee the day-to-day operational management of Occupational Therapy services across Cardiorespiratory, Critical Care and Surgery, providing clinical leadership and supervision to our OT team (2 x Band 6, 2 x Band 5 and 1 x Band 4). You will work autonomously with complex patients, leading advanced assessments and rehabilitation planning within a multidisciplinary team. You will also act as a clinical expert resource, contributing to service development, quality improvement, research and audit activity.

Working within a friendly, collaborative and well-established multidisciplinary team, you will play a key role in further developing and embedding Occupational Therapy within Critical Care, helping to shape rehabilitation pathways and improve outcomes for critically ill patients across their recovery journey.

**Main duties of the job**

- Provide specialist assessment, treatment and rehabilitation for patients with critical illness and complex post-operative needs, addressing physical, cognitive, psychological and functional recovery.

- Lead the day-to-day operational delivery and development of Occupational therapy services to critical care, respiratory and surgical wards.

- Work autonomously as an expert clinician and collaboratively with the multidisciplinary team to support shared decision-making, optimise patient outcomes and facilitate patient pathways from critical care through to discharge.

- Participate in critical care follow up clinic.

- Provide clinical leadership and supervision to occupational therapists, therapy assistants and students, contributing to workforce development.

- Lead and support education and training programmes, including competency development, student education and MDT learning opportunities.

- Drive service improvement, quality assurance, audit, research and innovation activities, contributing to clinical governance and the achievement of local and national strategic objectives.

- Support the Trust's move towards 7-day working by contributing to OT service provision on extended hours, weekends, and bank holidays.

**Benefits**

- The full range of NHS benefits & discounts.

**Person Specification**

- Qualifications: Degree or Diploma in Occupational Therapy, HCPC registration.

- Experience: Broad range of rotational experience including surgery, cardiorespiratory and neurology, complex physical, cognitive and functional rehabilitation management including patient-centred goal setting.

- Knowledge: Physiological principles underpinning critical illness, respiratory conditions and post-operative recovery, specialist knowledge of critical care rehabilitation principles.

- Skills: Highly developed skills in assessment, clinical reasoning and treatment in complex situations, complex risk assessment, discharge planning, problem-solving and individualised patient-centred rehabilitation.

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## Skills

### Required
- Occupational Therapy
- Critical Care
- Respiratory Conditions
- Post-operative Recovery
- Patient Assessment
- Rehabilitation Planning
- Clinical Leadership
- Supervision
- Education
- Training
- Service Improvement
- Quality Assurance
- Audit
- Research

### Nice to have
- Relevant postgraduate/leadership training
- Member of relevant special-interest groups
- Member of RCOT
- Experience of leading audit, quality improvement, service evaluation or service development projects
- Experience within vascular surgery, including amputee rehabilitation
- Splinting and tone management

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