Here at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust, we are proud to provide expert, compassionate care for our local population. We are ranked as the third in the country for research, embedding education and training across our organisation. Our main hub is the Queen Alexandra Hospital, which is one of the largest acute hospitals on the south coast employing over 8,700 staff.

Our patients come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds because it makes our hospital stronger. If you share our values and our enthusiasm for getting it right for patients, colleagues, and our community, you will find a home at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust.

We are seeking a dedicated and experienced Clinical Specialist Occupational Therapist to join our dynamic Older Person Medicine Team. In this pivotal role, you will lead the delivery of specialized occupational therapy services, focusing on complex cases within the OPM wards. Your expertise will contribute to improving patient outcomes through tailored interventions, comprehensive assessments, and multidisciplinary collaboration as well as ensuring timely and safe discharges into the community.

Job Summary

• To provide OT professional leadership to the acute therapy team.
• To be a clinical expert (specialist) in this area.
• To work with the B7 team lead to ensure; smooth, effective and safe delivery of occupational therapy.
• Provide clinical expertise, specialist advice, training and support within the therapy team and to the wider multi-disciplinary team.
• Act as a lead for the specialist area developing the service (in conjunction with the management team/MDT team).
• Ensure service delivery is evidence-based or follows local/national best practice where evidence base is not available.
• In conjunction with the Clinical Lead, ensure clinical governance targets are met, including the development of clinical standards and protocols, research, and clinical risk management.
• Take the lead role on Clinical Audit and Direct Observations of Practice (Live Supervision) to both monitor and ensure the overall quality of the service provision, and to ensure quality and clinical standards are met.

In addition, the post holder will:

• Work with other Therapy Clinical Scientists in the team to support the continued development of a culture that supports and facilitates cross boundary working across registered therapy professionals and the development of a multidisciplinary rehab technician role.
• Demonstrate a flexible approach to working and undertake weekend and Bank Holiday as required within the service.
• Expect to split time 70% clinical contract and 30% service development, although this can be negotiated in line with role requirements at any time.

For more information, please refer to the Job Description and contact

Kath Lake,  Therapy Lead for Neuro and OPM on [email protected] or 02392 286838  or

Sarah Dando, Clinical Specialist OT for medicine on [email protected]

Essential

• Degree/Diploma in Occupational Therapy
• HCPC Registered
• Evidence of CPD (portfolio)
• Evidence of post graduate training/qualification relevant to clinical area

Desirable

• Member of RCOT
• Member of Specialist section within professional body

Experience

Essential

• Experience of audit
• Experience of presenting complex data to a range of different audiences
• Experience of supervising and mentoring junior members of staff and pre-registration students
• Experience of providing clinical/professional leadership to junior members of staff
• Ability to lead and influence change

Desirable

• Experience of working with regional/national networks
• Acute hospital experience 2 years minimum
• Experience of working collaboratively with across teams

Skills and Knowledge

Essential

• Sound level of theoretical profession specific knowledge
• Sound knowledge of the multi-disciplinary team
• Sound knowledge of interventions relevant to clinical area
• Ability to work autonomously and as part of a team
• Leadership and motivational skills
• High level of clinical reasoning
• Ability to present information in logical concise manner
• Standard keyboard skills & the ability to use IT packages such as Word, Outlook, PowerPoint & Excel

The health and wellbeing of our staff is at the forefront of everything we do. We are proud to be able to offer our staff some fantastic benefits including our on-site Nursery, access to our free Beach Hut for those long summer days, our on-site Wellness Centre including a gym and a swimming pool, access to our fantastic staff networks including LGBTQ, Race Equality and DisAbility, and awards ceremonies to recognise your achievements. We believe we can offer support to all of our staff when they need it the most.

We welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of your education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, veteran’s status, colour, religion, disability, sexual orientation, and beliefs.

We welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of your education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, veteran’s status, colour, religion, disability, sexual orientation, and beliefs.