Advanced Paediatric Occupational Therapist

2 months ago

Ashington, United Kingdom Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Job summary

Are you passionate about supporting, promoting and sharing good practice with families, children/young people and health, social care and educational colleagues strengthening their skills in supporting the SEND agenda? Then we would love to hear from you

We have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and committed Occupational Therapist to be a Clinical Specialist within the field of Adaptations. The post holder will provide a quality, highly specialised community based Occupational Therapy service to children and young people who present with a wide variety of conditions and have complex health, social and housing needs. These include physical disabilities and behaviours of concern. Assessment for equipment and adaptations will be completed in both the home and school environment to provide a more enabling environment for the child. This will include both major and minor adaptation work and will require liaison with external agencies including Housing, Education, Social Services and respite facilities.

The successful candidate should have significant knowledge and skills in the assessment and management of children/young people with complex physical disabilities including those with Cerebral Palsy, neurological disorders and genetic disorders. They will be able to demonstrate their leadership, knowledge and experience as required by this senior clinical role.

Main duties of the job

To provide a quality, highly specialised community based Occupational Therapy service to children who present with a wide variety of conditions. These include complex, chronic, disabling and occasionally life limiting health, physical and developmental conditions. The Advanced Occupational Therapist as a highly specialist practitioner providing highly specialist knowledge within the Trust and externally including initiating, leading and participating in service planning, development, evaluation, audit/research. 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 promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.

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

As an advanced practitioner the therapist will:

Effectively manage and prioritise a designated complex caseload of children and young people, evidencing high level problem solving, advanced clinical reasoning skills and independent judgement. Provide highly specialist assessment, requiring specialist training and education, to identify childrens occupational performance needs in self-care, productivity (school) and leisure. As an autonomous practitioner contribute to the multi-disciplinary diagnosis of children. Formulate, implement and evaluate highly specialist, child and family centred needs led, OT interventions for children and their families/carers. Actively promote and maintain effective communication between multi-disciplinary professionals across agencies to ensure collaborative co- ordination, seamless, high quality care for children and their Provide highly specialist advice, training and education to the OT team families/carers, and personnel from a variety of agencies in education, health, social services etc.

Continue to develop highly specialist, clinical expertise and maintain competence to practice through continuing professional development, participation in reflective practice, supervision/appraisal/PDP and the utilisation of best practiceIevidence base into current work practices

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Diploma or degree in Occupational Therapy. Health Professionals Council registered.

Experience

Desirable

o Knowledge of undertaking research and audit projects. Knowledge of team dynamics and team building.

Other

Essential

o It is an essential requirement of the role that the post holder has a valid driving licence and is either a car owner and able to use the car for work purposes, or has a Trust personal lease vehicle which may be used for the role. However, the Trust would consider making reasonable adjustments to the role, if necessary, to enable a disabled person to undertake the role

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