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Senior Occupational Therapist

4 months ago


Wallsend, United Kingdom Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced, proactive and motivated Occupational Therapist within our multidisciplinary Community Response Services team, based at Cobalt Business Exchange.

Our team look to provide crisis and planned assessment and intervention in the community to help avoid unnecessary admission and re-admission to hospital.

The post holder will work with colleagues and patients to help deliver a 2 hour urgent response or same day response to health and social care crisis. They will also support patients requiring assessments and rehabilitation having been discharged from hospital into to the community setting and supported onto our virtual award. There are opportunities to work with patients with a wide range of health conditions.

Our team comprises of Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Technical Instructors and Associate Therapy Practitioners. We work closely alongside our Nurse Practitioner and pharmacy colleagues.

If you would like to discuss the post further, we welcome visits from interested candidates.

Our service operates 8am - 8pm, 7 days a week. Working patterns within these hours will be considered to accommodate individual needs, in line with needs of the service.

Main duties of the job

To ensure service provision is prioritised and service delivery is made effectively within resource constraints. To deliver a comprehensive service for a complex case load. To manage a defined caseload of patients, using evidence based clinical reasoning to assess, plan, implement and evaluate interventions. To assess for and monitor the provision of adaptations when appropriate. To provide clinical education, supervision and support to staff and students within the specialist field and Community Response Services. To provide specialist advice to families, carers, and other health and social care professionals. To participate in the planning, development and evaluation of OT services within a designated area/team, holding responsibility for defined projects through specialist interest and steering groups. To contribute to the maintenance and development of the Community Response Service across Northumbria Healthcare Trust. To practice within the multidisciplinary team, providing specialist Occupational Therapy assessments, diagnosis and treatment using clinical reasoning skills.

About us

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.

Job description

Job responsibilities

To work as part of a multidisciplinary team to provide efficient and effective facilitation of the patient journey through hospital and in community, to achieve safe and timely discharge, seamless transitions and help avoid unnecessary admission and re admission to hospital To carry out appraisals with junior and support staff, as delegated by Line Manager. Managerially responsible to Team Lead Clinically responsible to OT Lead. To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promoteownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams/departments and across organisational boundaries. Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

BSc. (Hons) degree/diploma in Occupational Therapy or equivalent State registered with Health Professions Council. HPC registered. Significant post registration qualification

Desirable

Practice placement qualification