Senior Occupational Therapist

Job overview

We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Occupational Therapist to join our well established team within Intermediate Care. The post holder will work primarily as part of a multidisciplinary team on the Royal Quays unit leading occupational therapy provision to support safe and timely discharges. The post holder is also expected to support cross site into the other intermediate care unit based in Cramlington. The post holder will be expected to work through the rehabilitation model but also facilitate local discharges utilising a discharge to assess model.

The successful candidate will have experience working with patients with a wide variety of conditions within a range of medical specialities including frailty/elderly medicine, and orthopaedics. The post holder will be able to manage their own caseload as well as supervise junior and support staff on a daily basis.

Service hours are currently 0800-1800 seven days a week. There is an expectation of weekend working across other Northumbria Healthcare sites. Contractual hours are between 0800-2000 and this may be implemented in the future.

Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.

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.
• 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 Occupational Therapy Team across Northumbria Healthcare Trust. To practice within the multidisciplinary team, providing specialist Occupational Therapy assessments, diagnosis and treatment using clinical reasoning skills.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To work as part of a multidisciplinary team to provide efficient and effective facilitation of the patient journey through intermediate care 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/ Clinically responsible to the Advanced 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 promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams/departments and across organisational boundaries.

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.