Practice Placement Lead Occupational Therapist

at  Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a HCPC registered Occupational Therapist to work as a Practice Placement Lead within the Therapies Practice Development Team at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust. The post is advertised on a temporary basis, for 0.6 WTE at Band 6 AfC.
Applications are invited from OTs who have excellent communication and interpersonal skills, and are able to work autonomously across a variety of different areas. The post holder will have broad clinical knowledge, and experience as a clinical educator, in order to work with clinical teams across Therapies and in partnership with local universities, to ensure excellence in practice learning opportunities. There are also opportunities to work alongside other practice placement leads in providing multi-professional education opportunities for AHP students at NUH.
The post holder has the responsibility for the co-ordination of placements for students from a variety of HEIs.
They will work alongside the OT staff at NUH, to ensure the provision of high quality clinical placements.
The post holder supports clinical educators, by providing advice and support to both the students and clinical educators, in order to help students to meet learning objectives.
They contribute to quality assurance by participation in audit and actively seeking feedback from all stakeholders.
With over 17,000 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!
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.
Detailed job description and person specification
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Formal liaison with universities

• Arrange placements and agree capacity plans in liaison with universities and their requirements

Student direct contact
Provide and / or supervise local student induction programmes
Acting as a highly visible professional as a source of reference for student concerns, assessment and feedback.
To monitor effectiveness of tutorial development and delivery of feedback to and from universities
Quality measurement of student placement programme
Audit of student feedback from resources whilst maintaining student anonymity
Address any issues as they arise from those resources with support from the Practice Development Leads and management
To ensure all equipment training is completed and signed off, and saved for future reference
Assist and support learning experiences for students while on their placement at NUH.
Facilitate the development of knowledge, clinical skills and professional attitudes within therapies, and throughout areas that utilise our expertise
Supervise, guide and act as a role model
Help to orient students to the work environment and assist with any concerns they have.
Provide ‘hands-on’ skills and experience as necessary and appropriate
To provide an individual induction rota for each student that includes the areas agreed with their respective university for each specific student cohort.