Job summary
- Main area
- 317 Occupational Therapy - Corporate
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 22.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 317-2025-12-035
- Employer
- The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Freeman Hospital
- Town
- 317 01 Freeman Hospital
- Salary
- £37,338 - £44,962 pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 16/04/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 12/05/2025
Employer heading
Specialist Occupational Therapist
Band 6
Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest and largest NHS foundation trusts in the country, with around 15,000 staff and an annual budget of £1.6 billion.
We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.
We’re in the top five providers of specialised health services in the country, supporting people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.
Our staff oversee around 6,500 patient contacts each day, delivering high standards of healthcare.
We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.
Newcastle Hospitals are proud to be one of the exemplar organisations across the NHS on sustainability, with a long history of delivering Sustainable Healthcare in Newcastle (Shine) and the first healthcare organisation in the world to declare a climate emergency. Our strategy includes commitments to being Net Zero by 2030, for our direct carbon footprint, and Net Zero by 2040 for our footprint plus. Delivering these ambitions will not be possible without the help, support and action of every single member of our team.
Job overview
An existing opportunity has arisen for a part time Band 6 post to work in a Community Muscular Skeletal Prehabilitation (MSK) service. We are looking for an enthusiastic, forward-thinking Occupational Therapist to work as part of a small team.
You will be working in a community setting helping to optimise and prepare patients awaiting MSK type surgeries. Using a prehabilitation approach, the focus is to help patients adopt self-management practices so that they are in the best physical and mental health prior to their surgery.
The post holder will:-
- Carry a clinical caseload and provide support and supervision of junior staff and students.
- Offer support and interventions around; psychological wellbeing, anxiety management, sleep routines, fatigue management,
activities of daily living management, equipment provision, minor adaptations and sign posting to appropriate services. - Prepare patients for their surgery in terms of managing expectations, offering education and promoting independence post-surgery.
- Contribute towards service development, patient experience and data collection for an evolving service.
- Interview Date Monday 12 May 2025
- 22 Hours 30 Minutes/Week
- You will be redirected to Trac to apply for the vacancy. Please expand the job details section and read all of the information before applying for the vacancy
NO AGENCIES PLEASE
Main duties of the job
Flexible approach to working practices
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
Motivated to consolidate and develop skills in practice
Willingness and ability to learn
Open to change
Research minded
Have use of car for work and full clean driving licence
Working for our organisation
Our staff oversee over 6,500 patient contacts every day, delivering high standards of healthcare from the following sites:
• Freeman Hospital
• Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI)
• Health Innovation Neighbourhood (on the former Newcastle General Hospital and Centre for Ageing and Vitality site)
• Newcastle Dental Hospital
• Newcastle Fertility Centre
• Northern Centre for Cancer Care, North Cumbria
• Northern Genetics Service
• Cramlington Manor Walks
These include a range of flagship services which deliver cutting-edge care (supported by state-of-the-art diagnostic services in both radiology and pathology) and are a catalyst for innovation to support pioneering clinical practice in the NHS.
We also have offices at Regent Point in Gosforth and community sites.
Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust under ‘Documents to download’ or ‘Supporting documents’.
For further information on The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust please visit: Careers | Newcastle Hospitals | NHS | Newcastle Hospitals and Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- To provide a high standard of occupational therapy care to complex and highly complex patients within a specialist area evidencing high level problem solving, reasoning skills and independence of judgement.
- The specialist practitioner is the clinical lead for the Occupational Therapy Service within the area of practice providing highly specialist knowledge within the Trust and externally to therapists and other health care professionals from secondary and primary care.
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
Person specification
KNOWLEDGE
Essential criteria
- In-depth clinical knowledge of medical conditions and their effect on occupational performance
- Highly developed understanding of OT process within acute setting
- In-depth knowledge of health and social care policy, risk assessment and management
- Extensive knowledge of a range of disability equipment
- Extensive knowledge of eligibility criteria and procedures/policies relevant to disability equipment, minor housing adaptations
- Highly specialist knowledge of moving and handling legislation and knowledge of current moving and handling best practice and associated equipment
- Excellent understanding of professional ethics and their application into practice
- Good knowledge of clinical governance
- Evidence of CPD
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of undertaking research and audit projects
- Knowledge of team dynamics and team building
SKILLS
Essential criteria
- Good organisation, time management, problem solving and prioritisation skills
- Supervisory, team management skills
- Ability to work as part of a team
- Commitment to personal and service development
- Effective written and oral communication skills
- Ability to reflect and critically appraise own performance
Desirable criteria
- IT skills
- Presentation skills
EXPERIENCE
Essential criteria
- Significant post-registration experience incl experience within physical health
- Use of functional assessment and activity analysis
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working with patients with physical disability eg reduced mobility
- Team management
- Experience in supervising staff
QUALIFICATION
Essential criteria
- Degree/Diploma in OT
- State registered with Health Professions Council
- Member of BAOT
- Post graduate experience
OTHER
Essential criteria
- Car user and full clean driving licence
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Deborah Webster
- Job title
- Advanced Occupational Therapist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01912824246
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