Occupational Advanced Therapist for Acute Medicine

Job overview

Come and Join Us!

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Occupational Therapist to jointly lead the Acute Medical team at Stoke Mandeville Hospital and bridge the Trauma and Orthopaedic team. The Medical  team includes you with the other Band 7, two Band 6s, Band 5 and a Band 3 and T&O team, Band 7, Band 6 and Band 4s!

You will lead with a strategic, passionate and innovative approach!

The OT teams work closely with the Physios and the innovative Home First team that undertakes discharge home visits with the care agencies using a Discharge to Assess approach.

Main duties of the job

• To work clinically assessing acute medical in- patients and providing recommendations regarding their ability to be discharged home or requiring some in-patient rehabilitation and liaising with all the community services available.
• To support your team to do the same and identify and develop your own interests supported and empowered by the Occupational Therapy manager.
• To work closely with the multidisciplinary team and lead and develop a most effective model and vision with your dynamic team, supervising and delegating.
• To contribute to interdisciplinary team management of long term disability and it’s consequent problems by use of specific clinical skills to treat .
• To be able to identify own professional limitations and seek professional advice when necessary.
• To undertake responsibility and leadership for completion and implementation of clinical projects, audit or research.
• To analyse and interpret clinical and non-clinical information to contribute to an accurate treatment approach.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For a comprehensive list of responsibilities and duties, please kindly refer to the Job Description and Person Specification by downloading the JD and PS attachment in the advert.

If you are an internal applicant there is the option for secondment, all applicants must have the endorsement/support of their line manager prior to application.

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