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Advanced Paediatric Occupational Therapist
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NHS AfC: Band 7
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Parhaol: Full time
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Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
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Advanced Paediatric Occupational Therapist

NHS AfC: Band 7

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.

Whilst Northumbria Healthcare are an innovative organisation, currently we do not support the use of Third Party Artificial Intelligence (AI) used throughout the Recruitment & Selection process. If AI is used, at any stage of the process, your application may be withdrawn. 

 

 

Trosolwg o'r swydd

 Are you passionate about supporting, promoting and sharing good practice with  families, children/young people and health, social care and educational colleagues strengthening their skills in supporting the SEND agenda? Then we would love to hear from you! 

We have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and committed Occupational Therapist to be a Clinical Specialist within the field of Adaptations. The post holder will provide a quality, highly specialised community based Occupational Therapy service to children and young people who present with a wide variety of conditions and have complex health, social and housing needs. These include physical disabilities and behaviours of concern. Assessment for equipment and adaptations will be completed in both the home and school environment to provide a more enabling environment for the child. This will include both major and minor adaptation work and will require liaison with external agencies including Housing, Education, Social Services and respite facilities.

The successful candidate should have significant knowledge and skills in the assessment and management of children/young people with complex physical disabilities including those with Cerebral Palsy, neurological disorders and genetic disorders. They will be able to demonstrate their leadership, knowledge and experience as required by this senior clinical role. 

Prif ddyletswyddau'r swydd

  • To provide a quality, highly specialised community based Occupational Therapy service to children who present with a wide variety of conditions. These include complex, chronic, disabling and occasionally life limiting health, physical and developmental conditions.  The Advanced Occupational Therapist as a highly specialist practitioner providing highly specialist knowledge within the Trust and externally including initiating, leading and participating in service planning, development, evaluation, audit/research. 
  • 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.

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.

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As an advanced practitioner the therapist will:

  • Effectively manage and prioritise a designated complex caseload of children and young people, evidencing high level problem solving, advanced clinical reasoning skills and independent judgement.
  • Provide highly specialist assessment, requiring specialist training and education, to identify children’s occupational performance needs in self-care, productivity (school) and leisure.
  • As an autonomous practitioner contribute to the multi-disciplinary diagnosis of children.
  • Formulate, implement and evaluate highly specialist, child and family centred needs led, OT interventions for children and their families/carers.
  • Actively promote and maintain effective communication between multi-disciplinary professionals across agencies to ensure collaborative co- ordination, seamless, high quality care for children and their
  • Provide highly specialist advice, training and education to the OT team families/carers, and personnel from a variety of agencies in education, health, social services etc.

Continue to develop highly specialist, clinical expertise and maintain competence to practice through continuing professional development, participation in reflective practice, supervision/appraisal/PDP and the utilisation of best practiceIevidence base into current work practices

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Qualifications

Meini prawf hanfodol
  • Diploma or degree in Occupational Therapy.
  • Health Professionals Council registered.

Experience

Meini prawf dymunol
  • • Knowledge of undertaking research and audit projects. Knowledge of team dynamics and team building.

Other

Meini prawf hanfodol
  • • 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

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Susan Wright
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Clinical Lead Occupational Therapist
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