Wheelchair Occupational Therapist

Band 6-7 Development opportunity may be available if all essential criteria not met

You will be a Lead for the Northern Lincolnshire Wheelchair service, in collaboration with cross site Wheelchair services for NLAG. This may involve cross site cover and support. You will be based at Scawby House, Brigg but clinically working from community locations across Scunthorpe. You will also work closely with the Equipment services based at CES and ALC.

The purpose of this post is to provide a high standard of Occupational Therapy service undertaking all aspects of clinical duties as an autonomous practitioner and provide leadership to a defined team of staff as well working jointly with the other team leads across the service(s).

To act as Lead for Northern Lincolnshire Wheelchair services in collaboration with cross site Wheelchair services for NLAG.

You will work with complex patients (Adults and children) with a range of presenting conditions and link with the wider multi disciplinary team as needed. You will see individuals in a range of settings such as own home, care setting or outpatient clinic. You will provide highly specialist assessment and a range of interventions to prescribe specialist seating and wheelchairs to support independence. You will carry out a range of manual handling tasks using required equipment and techniques.

You will lead and manage a small team of registered and non registered staff and will work as part of the wider Wheelchair services cross site to ensure coordinated and effective day to day delivery of Wheelchair services. You will lead on identification and implementation of service improvement and carry out the various people management elements of the team lead role, following local relevant policies. You will provide clinical leadership to this team and support and supervise the staff within it to carry out their roles.

The Humber Health Partnership is one of the largest acute and community Partnership arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.

Made up of two Trusts - Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) - our Partnership has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.

Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.

As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas - biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.

We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Partnership and our community.

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As a Trust we are keen to offer and encourage flexible working opportunities to address health and wellbeing and work-life balance for our employees, this will have a positive impact on the care we provide.

Flexible working is part of a wider commitment to improve the quality and experience of working life and we recognise that it is a key contributor for the recruitment and retention of our employees.

We therefore support and encourage open conversations around a specific working pattern to suit your work-life balance or a multi-role career, if it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.

Local flexible working arrangements are developed in partnership between the line manager and employee in order to ensure equality of access to flexible working, as far as practicable, regardless of role, shift pattern, team or pay, based on: patient/service user and staff experience, service delivery and work-life balance of colleagues.

We are committed to creating and maintaining a fair and supportive working environment and culture, where contributions are fully recognised and valued by all and staff feel empowered to carry out their duties to the best of their abilities. As employers we are committed to promoting and protecting the physical and mental health and well-being of all our staff. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution, supports us to be an Employer of Choice and ultimately enables our employees to support the effective care of our patients.

We strongly value the different perspectives and ideas a diverse workforce brings to deliver better outcomes for our patients. We welcome applications irrespective of people's age, disability, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.

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