Clinical Specialist Occupational Therapist inGloucester inGloucester PUBLISHED SAT 30 NOV 2024

An exciting opportunity has come up within the Gloucester Community Learning Disability Team, as part of the Occupational Therapy Service!

The New Post Holder Will

• Provide specialist breadth and depth of skills and knowledge to deliver evidence based occupational therapy assessment and intervention to service users with a wide range of complex learning disabilities
• Work as a key member of a specialist multidisciplinary team contributing expert knowledge, assessment, and specialist interventions to meet the physical, sensory and emotional health needs of people with a Learning Disability
• Provide consultancy and advice, and training to support primary and secondary health care professionals, social care providers and carers to enable them to better meet the health needs of service users
• Research, develop and share current best practice to optimise the service users ability to engage with their environment in line with principles of social inclusion
• Support the continuous practice development as a member of the leadership group in the occupational therapy workforce
• The Gloucester CLDT provide a specialist locality based service for people with a Learning disability whose health needs can not be met by mainstream health services.
• The team works closely with relevant carers, organisations, agencies and with internal specialist LD services and inpatient provisions.
• CLDT are available Monday to Friday primarily during office hours and is delivered in relevant settings to meet service user needs
• Provide specialist Occupational Therapy input through a range of evidence based assessments and approaches.
• To clinically support and guide junior Occupational Therapy staff.
  
  

The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.

We have in excess of 5000 staff working over 50 sites, providing a diverse range of services. We strive to support an organisational culture that is welcoming, builds and celebrates inclusivity and diversity and provides a sense of belonging and trust.

About

The annual NHS Staff Survey gives our people the opportunity to tell us about their experience working at the Trust. For the 2023 survey just over 2800 colleagues gave us their views (58.5%). It was great to see from the results that colleagues are saying that:

• 89.7% believe they are making a positive difference to patients/service users;
• 73.3% would recommend the organisation as a place to work;
• 82.4% agree that care of patients and service users is the organisations priority;
• 76.7% would be happy with the standard of care for a friend or relative
  
  

Our results put us as 5th nationally as a Community, Mental Health and Learning Disabilities NHS Employer of Choice and 1st equal amongst all NHS Provider Trusts in the South West. However, we know we have more to do and will continue to drive forward our commitment to making GHC a Great Place to Work.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Bonnie East Job title: Team Manager Email address: Telephone number: