Advanced Clinical Specialist Occupational Therapist - Elderly Frailty

Job overview

Are you an experienced Occupational Therapist ready to take the next step into a highly specialist leadership role?

Do you want to make a meaningful impact on frailty care while enjoying life on the stunning North Yorkshire coastline?

If you’re passionate about advancing frailty care and want to bring your expertise to a role where you can truly make a difference, we would love to hear from you!

We are seeking an Advanced Clinical Specialist Occupational Therapist to continue to lead and develop our frailty pathway within the East Coast inpatient services at Scarborough Hospital. This is a pivotal role for a clinician who can provide highly specialist assessment, treatment, and leadership for patients with complex physical, cognitive, psychological, behavioural, and social needs.

You will act as the Lead Specialist Clinician for Frailty shaping service development and supporting the wider occupational therapy workforce to deliver  evidence‑based care. This includes providing expert advice, supervision and training to colleagues and students, as well as contributing to research, audit, and service evaluation.

This is an exciting opportunity to influence clinical standards, champion innovation, and embed high‑quality occupational therapy practice across the frailty pathway.

We are looking for someone who has some specialist experience in frailty or a related clinical area and can demonstrate advanced clinical reasoning and the ability to manage complex presentations.

Main duties of the job

This is an opportunity to develop confidence in  leading change, supporting others, and promoting best practice.

• Managing a highly complex clinical caseload using advanced clinical reasoning and occupation‑focused assessment.
• Leading specialist practice in frailty, ensuring safe, effective, and evidence‑based care.
• Acting as a resource for highly specialist advice across the Trust.
• Providing leadership, supervision, and mentorship to staff and students.
• Driving service development, innovation, and quality improvement initiatives.
• Contributing to research, audit, and evaluation activities.
• Communicating complex and sensitive information with clarity, empathy, and professionalism.
• Collaborating effectively within multidisciplinary teams and across organisational boundaries

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please ensure you have approval from your current line manager before applying for this secondment post.

A full description of the role is available in the attachment: job description.

Please note that if a high number of applications are received this advert may close early. You are advised to submit your application at the earliest opportunity.

Working for the Trust

Across our organisation, people are guided by values that were co-developed with staff: we are kind; we are open; and we pursue excellence.

Our values play into our ambition to develop a more diverse workforce, truly representative of our communities.  We welcome applications from everyone, while working with our Staff Networks - including our Race Equality, LGBTQ+, Disability and Carers Networks - to increase the number of applications we receive from different backgrounds.  If there is anything we can do to make our application process more accessible to you, please contact: [email protected].

As part of seeking to become more inclusive, we will consider requests for flexible working from the start of your employment.  It may not be suitable for every role, but we will try and be supportive where we can.  We would encourage you to speak to the recruiting manager named within this advert to discuss any requirements you may have.

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