Senior Occupational Therapist inWallsend inWallsend PUBLISHED 16 MAY 2024

Band 6: £35,392 to £42,618 a year pro rata per annum PERMANENT

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust r6YNJMxk

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To contribute to the maintenance and development of the Community Response Service across Northumbria Healthcare Trust.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.