Advanced Practitioner

The Role

The Advanced Practitioner Occupational Therapy role is to support the Advanced Practitioner Physiotherapy role in providing expert clinical interventions and also leadership alongside Team Leader, who is operational, within Rehabilitation Team professional work-plans. These roles will also provide supervision to junior members of staff.

You will lead the development and delivery of occupational therapy services across the clinical specialty, care group or NHSL wide service. the successful candidate applies evidence informed practice through clinical audit, research and service improvement applicable to the specialist area of work.

NHS Lanarkshire

Have you always wanted to work with NHS Lanarkshire? Then this might be the opportunity for you to join Team Lanarkshire

Here at NHS Lanarkshire, we put the patient at the heart of everything we do. Each colleague within the organisation plays a key role in how we deliver our healthcare services.

We proudly serve a population of 655,000 across rural and urban communities in in both North and South Lanarkshire. NHS Lanarkshire is comprised of Acute Services (which currently provide hospital based services over 3 main sites), Corporate & Property & Support Services, North and South Lanarkshire Health and Social Care Partnerships which provide integrated primary healthcare and social care services to local communities and surrounding areas.

What we'll need you to bring

Educated to Master’s Degree in Occupational Therapy or relevant specialty, or evidence of working towards Masters level qualification HCPC Registration Evidence of working at Level 7 Advanced Practitioner of the NMAHP Development Framework A range of post graduate education, and short specialist courses relevant to the specialty. Comprehensive knowledge of clinical guidelines, standards and legislation relevant to the speciality. Evidence of highly developed leadership skills. Evidence of research, audit and quality improvement methodologies. Excellent listening, communication and interpersonal skills Evidence of learning, development and teaching & skills.
Car driver a full, valid UK/EU/EEA licence

Overseas applicants - Please note that being a Registered Occupational Therapist with valid Health & Care Professions Council (HCPC) registration is essential to be considered for this role

It would be great if you also have

Supervisory management or leadership training

Experience of day to day management and supervision of staff

Experience of developing others and leading projects to support the clinical governance and accountability framework

Contract type

Permanent

Part Time

22.3 hours

Please note this is a part time post and the salary for this position will be pro-rata.

Location and Working Pattern

This role will be based in Bellshill Integrated Rehabilitation Team within Bellshill Locality

The working pattern for this role will be confirmed by the hiring manager

Looking to find out more?

If you’re looking to find out a bit more, then we would love to hear from you

Why NHS Lanarkshire?

Join us and you will discover a supportive environment where you will have the chance to add to your skills and further your career.

Some of NHS Lanarkshire’s benefits include:

A minimum of 27 days annual leave increasing with length of service

A minimum of 8 days of public holidays

Membership of NHS Pension Scheme, with life insurance benefits (for more information on the NHS Pension Scheme visit the )

Paid sick leave increasing with length of service

Occupational health services

Employee Counselling services

Work-life Balance policies and procedures

NHS Lanarkshire have a range of support services on topics that can impact both on your working and personal life including occupational health, spiritual care and independent counselling. This support can be accessed using the links on this page.

Further Information

For more information on the role, please refer to the Job Description. If you’re looking for more information on the recruitment process, organisation or the services we provide, please refer to our information pack, or our .

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