You will receive a warm and friendly welcome when joining the Allied Health Professionals teams at University Hospital Coventry and Warwickshire (UHCW) NHS Trust. We take pride in our AHP staff, recognising and appreciating the valuable role they play in meeting the aims of our strategy and providing excellent care for our patients.
We are a modern forward-thinking organisation and have the advantage of a well-established AHP Leadership team and Faculty. We offer a wealth of opportunities for innovation and research supported by the Centre of Care Excellence. We can offer opportunities for career development training, education, and research helping you to achieve your career goals.
We strongly believe in investing in our staff and are committed to supporting your health and wellbeing. We can offer a range of flexible working options to allow for a good work life balance. You will enjoy a competitive salary, one of the most generous pension schemes in the UK, discounts at shops, restaurants and more.
We are recruiting to a number of different roles and are seeking motivated and enthusiastic people who want to innovative practice and share their ideas to ensure our patients always are at the heart of everything we do.
Speech and Language therapists provide swallowing and communication assessments, treatment and management across the adult wards and head and neck outpatients at UHCW.
Areas of specialty covered include:
We have several staff with an extended scope of practice to provide:
Areas of opportunity for AHPs:
Specialist roles and extended scope of practice
MDT working
Specialist teaching and education
Student support
Allied Health professionals (AHPs) are the third largest workforce in the NHS.
Everyday our AHPs play a vital role in treating, rehabilitating, and improving the lives of our patients. They are fully integrated into patient care and work alongside clinical colleagues in a range of settings including our hospitals and in the community.
Our Occupational Therapists work across several departments within University Hospital and within services at the Hospital of St Cross, Rugby. We provide services across a diverse range of acute pathways including emergency, inpatients, and primary care supporting patients from admission to discharge. Our band 5 rotation provides opportunities to experience a wide variety of areas and specialties. We have close links with local universities providing student placements and also participating in research.
Our teams include:
REACT:
REACT is a specialist team of Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists and Assistant Practitioners that work across ‘The Front Door’ areas of the hospital, which include Accident & Emergency, Acute Medical wards and the Acute Frailty Unit.
The service aims to prevent unnecessary hospital admissions, promote independence, facilitate early supported discharges and reduce the risk of deconditioning. This is done through completion of holistic assessments, identifying appropriate discharge pathways, working alongside community partners and providing therapy intervention.
The team work 7 days a week with extended cover in the evenings which enables a variety of shift patterns.
Therapy Inpatients:
Occupational Therapists within Therapies assess and treat patients across both inpatient and outpatients services and within a wide variety of specialities including:
Integrated Discharge Team:
The Integrated discharge team are an inpatient inter-disciplinary service comprising Occupational Therapists, Nurses and Assistant Practitioners. IDT are a vital part of the multi-disciplinary team working across a variety of inpatient specialties, attending board rounds and working closely with colleagues to support the assessment and discharge of patients across a 7 day service. IDT will assess patients who were not in receipt of any support services prior to admission, but their acute health episode has resulted in a functional decline that now requires short term support and / or reablement for discharge. IDT will discharge patients via the most appropriate discharge pathway and coordinate all elements of the discharge to ensure it is safe and timely in line with the ‘Discharge to Assess’ model.
Physiotherapists
Physiotherapists work across in and outpatient services at University Hospital and the Hospital of St Cross, Rugby supporting many of the specialties within the trust. We also support services based at the City of Coventry Health Centre and across Primary Care in Coventry. We have close links with local universities providing student placements and also participating in research.
Inpatient services include...
We pride ourselves on being one of the country’s largest teaching hospitals and a Centre of Care Excellence with strong links to local universities offering exceptional training and development opportunities to support you to achieve the career you want.
We value our AHP workforce and understand the importance of supporting learning and development, therefore provide a wide range of additional opportunities for AHPs including:
Diagnostic Radiographers are based within large departments on both University Hospital and the Hospital of St. Cros Rugby sites.
Areas covered: All areas within the Imaging Department that includes the following modalities including CT, MRI, General x-ray, Non Obstetric Ultrasound, Dexa scans, theatre Imaging and interventional radiology.
Opportunities for AHPs: There are fantastic opportunities that support the four tier structure from apprentice roles all the way up to Consultant Radiographer.
Advanced Practice opportunities for Radiographers include undertaking roles in Ultrasound, CT, GI fluoroscopy and Breast where radiographers both perform the examinations or intervention procedures, and interpret the images produced. Opportunities also exist in the Plain Film specialty to include chest & Abdomen as well as appendicular and axial image interpretation.
There are also clinical and managerial development opportunities for all staff at all levels within Imaging, utilising defined development pathways
These include Admin / clerical pathways to Service Manager level or clinical managerial pathways to Modality Lead or more senior Operational / clinical management such as Superintendent Radiographer (Unit Lead) or equivalent.
The dietetic department at UHCW is made up of approximately 70 members of staff from qualified Dietitians, Dietetic Assistants and an administration team.
We work across 4 main sites
– University Hospital
– Rugby St Cross
– Newfield House (Coventry)
– Paybody Building (Coventry)
We cover satellite renal dialysis units across in Leamington Spa, Warwick, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Nuneaton (George Eliot Hospital) and Rugby
We support patients in hospital, outpatient settings, care homes, primary care and in their own homes providing seamless care and transfer of patients across all settings.
We have strong links with local Dietetic Departments in Warwickshire and Birmingham and cover a wide range of specialties across adult and paediatric settings working closely with all clinical MDTs and AHPs. Below is just an example of the specialties:
• Paediatrics oncology, diabetes, complex feeding issues,
• Renal
• Oncology
• Stroke
• Gastroenterology
• Home Enteral Feeding and Community Nutrition Support
• Cardiac Rehab
• Community Neurological Rehabilitation
• Diabetes
• Weight Management and Bariatric Surgery
• Major Trauma
• Nutrition Team (specialist multi professional team)
• Acute Team – cover the majority of hospital wards, mixed specialties including respiratory, care of the elderly, neurology.
Theatres:
There are 32 theatres across 3 areas (Main theatres, ground floor theatres and at Hospital St Cross) and Operating Department Practitioners support all adult and paediatric clinical specialities across these theatres with approximately 500 members of staff.
You will receive a robust induction and competency package to support you in becoming a scrub, recovery and/or anaesthetic practitioner in one of the busiest theatres in the country.
Vascular access team:
UHCW NHS Trust has a vascular access team ensuring that patients receive vascular access devices that are appropriate for the IV therapy they require.
The ODPs work alongside MDT colleagues in this team working with all clinical specialties across the trust and deliver:
Bedside placement of long term cannulas, midlines and PICC lines
Theatre sessions for Hickman line and port insertion and removal
Monitoring of standards of care to lines.
We are a large Orthoptic Department based at University Hospital. We also cover clinics at Rugby St Cross Hospital and community locations across Coventry.
We deliver a wide and varied comprehensive eye care service including the following:
• Paediatric Orthoptics
• Adult Orthoptics
• Visual field assessment
• Stroke assessment
• Community screening clinics for pre-school children
• Primary vision screening for children in reception
• Special school screening
• Biometry
• Anterior segment clinics
• Paediatric eye casualty
• Neuro-ophthalmology
• Cornea clinics
• VPD
Therapeutic Radiographers work within the Arden Cancer Centre based on the University Hospital site.
Therapeutic radiographers who plan and treat the patients, review the patients while having treatment, manage the Quality Assurance system and support radiotherapy trials.
Areas of work covered; the planning and delivery of radiotherapy to adults in the Coventry and Warwickshire catchment area.
Opportunities for AHPs; the therapeutic radiographers can specialise in the following areas; CT planning, treatment, radiotherapy trials, radiographer led treatment, patient reviews, Non-Medical prescribers, quality assurance, practice educator and administrators for the record and verify radiotherapy software system.
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