Occupational Therapist

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde is one of the largest healthcare systems in the UK employing around 40,000 staff in a wide range of clinical and non-clinical professions and job roles. We deliver acute hospital, primary, community and mental health care services to a population of over 1.15 million and a wider population of 2.2 million when our regional and national services are included.

This is a 30 hour, 1 year fixed term post

This is a community post, working 30 hours per week, between the hours of Monday
- Friday 9am-5pm

(Please note the salary is Pro Rata) for part time hours.

The East Dunbartonshire Joint Learning Disability Team are seeking to recruit a Band 5 Occupational Therapist on a 1 year fixed term contract to cover maternity leave..

Our Learning Disability Change Programme is reviewing and redesigning our services to ensure that people receive the right care at the right time and that we develop in line with national and local policy and are well placed to meet the needs of the learning disability population now and in the future. Our ‘Strategy for the Future’ document clearly outlines our aspiration to provide a future service which focuses on providing good outcomes for people with a learning disability and to support people to live healthy, happy, independent lives within the community.
Occupational Therapy is key to achieving this vision and contributes to the overall multi-disciplinary approach by assessing people who have learning disabilities to ascertain the impact which their learning disability has on occupational performance.
The three main types of specialist interventions are functional skills assessment, sensory processing and provision of specialist adaptations and equipment in collaboration with OT colleagues in Local Authority Areas.

You will manage a defined caseload and will carry out occupational therapy assessments, treatment and evaluation of these interventions to identify mental and physical barriers to an individual service user’s level of function in daily life-skill activities.
You will work with the service user on an individual or group work basis to maintain or increase their level of function in these activities in order to maximise their level of independence within their living and community environment, and establish realistic and achievable occupational therapy goals and contribute to the overall multidisciplinary treatment approach
By engaging in the professional occupational therapy supervision process with a senior occupational therapist you will participate in the delivery of an evidenced based occupational therapy service.
You will be expected to participate in the clinical development framework within the service and professional training opportunities available and work as part of a multidisciplinary team, engaging in team tasks, team audit and research.
The postholder will be HCPC registered and have a degree or equivalent in Occupational Therapy.