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Generative artificial intelligence (AI) describes algorithms that can be used to produce new content, including audio, code, images, text, simulations, and videos. It is developing all the time and is now being used as a support mechanism for all kinds of content-based creations. Please note the use of AI is monitored and if applicants have used it then they are required to declare this. Are you an experienced and enthusiastic Occupational Therapist or Physiotherapist with significant knowledge and skills in Older Person’s Rehabilitation, and looking for a new challenge in a leadership position?
Are you passionate about your profession, and could you be an ambassador for Occupational Therapists and Physiotherapists within and beyond University Hospitals
Bristol and Weston (UHBW)?
We are currently seeking applications for a Band 8a Pathway Lead in Medicine/Older Persons Rehabilitation on a Fixed Term Contract until May 27. This post offers the opportunity to deliver operational management for the Front Door Therapy Team; covering ED, OPAU and AMU, and the Older Person’s Therapy Team; covering the Older Person’s and complex discharge wards, service development, and clinical leadership whilst maintaining a clinical role. You would be supported in your role by an Adult Therapy senior management team, fellow Pathway Leads, Clinical Specialists and Team Leads with lots of opportunity for professional development.
The post will primarily be based in
Bristol Royal Infirmary, but as some services are based in other locations i.e. South
Bristol Community Hospital and Weston General Hospital, there will be a need to work across sites. Demonstrate the prevailing leadership style of the trust and the wider NHS. That of compassion and inclusivity.
In conjunction with Team Leads, fellow Pathway Leads and Clinical Specialists, provide clinical leadership and management within Medicine pathways, including OPT and FDT.
Provide innovative and visionary clinical leadership to promote the profession and the service.
In conjunction with the other Medicine Pathway Leads will assume responsibility for the day-to-day running of the Medicine pathways across UHBW sites.
Will liaise with other therapy leads to ensure cross-cover arrangements in place.
To implement a range of standardised assessments and outcome measures to ensure we are delivering the standards we have set ourselves and give the patients a quality experience from the therapy services.
Act as a role model, educator, supervisor, coach and mentor, seeking to instil and develop the abilities and confidence of others.
Actively develop a team culture which seeks to delivers education to a range of professionals, in a range of formats, that is responsive to the needs of staff. University Hospitals
Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW) is one of the largest acute Trusts in the country, bringing together a combined workforce of over 13,000 staff and over 100 different clinical services across 10 different sites, serving a core population of more than 500,000 people across South West England. UHBW has been rated by the CQC as ‘Good’ overall and our staff are proud to deliver excellent care to the people of
Bristol, Weston and beyond. As a forward- thinking multi-award winning Trust and a digital exemplar committed to improving patient care, our world-leading research and innovations are having a positive local and global impact. Our hospitals are spread across
Bristol and Weston, join us and you can enjoy the very best of both worlds; city living within a stone’s throw of the countryside or beside the seaside, both with easy access to all that the South West has to offer. UHBW is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them. Anonymous information will be used from your application in order to ensure we’re meeting our pledge.
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