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Occupational Therapy
Gradd
NHS AfC: Band 6
Contract
Parhaol
Oriau
  • Llawnamser
  • Gweithio hyblyg
37.5 awr yr wythnos (8am-8pm contract 7 day working)
Cyfeirnod y swydd
319-5919335HN
Cyflogwr
Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Math o gyflogwr
NHS
Gwefan
North Tyneside General Hospital
Tref
North Shields
Cyflog
£35,392 - £42,618 per annum
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30/07/2024 23:59

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Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust logo

Senior Occupational Therapist

NHS AfC: Band 6

Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022).  Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is…the Northumbria Way!

What the Northumbria Way means for you:

  • Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
  • Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
  • A range of flexible working opportunities
  • Generous annual leave and pension scheme
  • Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
  • Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
  • On-site nursery places via salary sacrifice
  • Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank

We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts – rated ‘outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.

We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise – a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people’s lives, such as education, employment and the economy. 

If Northumbria Healthcare sounds like somewhere you could belong we would love to hear from you. Visit our website to catch up on our latest news.

 

 

Trosolwg o'r swydd

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Senior Occupational Therapist to work at North Tyneside General Hospital and the town North Shields. The post holder will work across all Northumbria settings including our Specialist Emergency Care Hospital in Cramlington as well as working in the community carrying out discharge to assess.   Specialist areas include

  • Care of the Elderly
  • Geriatric Orthopaedic 
  • General Medicine
  • Surgery
  • Gastroenterology

The successful candidate will also work alongside our dedicated Rehabilitation Response Team, Intermediate Care Therapy Teams and within patient homes. Current Trust initiatives will be adopted by focusing on addressing functional deficits to promote independence, admission avoidance and timely discharges from the Acute settings into patient’s homes, adopting a facilitated discharge and discharge to assess approach, where appropriate. 

Prif ddyletswyddau'r swydd

We are looking for candidates who are motivated, enthusiastic and willing to engage in current service developments & audits and use highly developed Occupational Therapy skills and evidence-based practice to enhance the health and wellbeing of patients. The candidate will be expected to work closely with the wider Multi-disciplinary Team to foster an environment of high quality and seamless therapy pathways across Northumberland and North Tyneside. This will ensure high quality individualised care is delivered which focuses on promoting independence and optimising recovery after illness or injury.  The successful candidate will be supported by supervision and appraisal processes and will have opportunities to complete specialist training to enhance key skills and knowledge.

Candidates will be responsible for their own clinical practice, delegating work to Occupational Therapy Technical Instructors and support workers where appropriate, and supporting students on clinical placements. The successful candidate will comply with the College of Occupational Therapists Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct and National and Trust procedures to deliver a seamless therapy pathway. The candidate will work autonomously respecting the individuality, values, cultural and religious diversity of patients and contribute to the provision of a service sensitive to these needs. 

Gweithio i'n sefydliad

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England. 

Swydd ddisgrifiad a phrif gyfrifoldebau manwl

  • To provide a comprehensive Occupational Therapy service in the specific specialist area(s) following Trust policies and procedures to ensure safety and clinical excellence.
  • To ensure service provision in the specialist areas is prioritised and service delivery is made effectively within resource constraints.
  • To practice within the multidisciplinary team, providing specialist Occupational Therapy assessments, diagnosis and treatment using clinical reasoning skills.
  • To manage a defined caseload of patients (often with highly complex needs), using evidence based clinical reasoning to assess, plan, implement and evaluate interventions.
  • To provide leadership for junior and support staff, through supervision, appraisals and mentoring.
  • To support service provision across sites when needed, in line with needs of the service.
  • To regularly supervise undergraduate Occupational Therapy students on practice placement and participate in placement experience of other professionals.
  • To complete home visits with patients where appropriate.

The successful candidate's may be required to work within a 8am-8pm rostering system, however we offer a flexible working policy. Working patterns between these hours will be considered to accommodate individual needs, in line with needs of the service. Please do not hesitate to get in touch if this appeals to you.

It is an essential requirement of the role that the post holder has a valid driving licence and is either a car owner and able to use the car for work purposes, or has a Trust personal lease vehicle which may be used for the role. However, the Trust would consider making reasonable adjustments to the role, if necessary, to enable a disabled person to undertake the role.

Manyleb y person

Qualifications

Meini prawf hanfodol
  • Diploma/Degree in Occupational Therapy
  • State registered with Healthcare Professions Council.
Meini prawf dymunol
  • Practice placement qualification.
  • Post Graduate training relevant to specialist area.

Experience and Knowledge

Meini prawf hanfodol
  • Postgraduate training relevant to the specialist area.
  • Documented evidence of continuing professional development
  • Evidence of qualification to undertake the supervision, teaching and assessing of students (essential requirement for post, expectation this will be completed within an 18 month period).

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Nicola Pearson
Teitl y swydd
Team Lead Occupational Therapist
Cyfeiriad ebost
[email protected]
Rhif ffôn
01913371000
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Joy Hart

Carepoint Team Lead

North Tyneside General Hospital

0191 3371000

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