Senior Occupational Therapist
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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
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.
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Job overview
Are you a compassionate and skilled Occupational Therapist dedicated to enhancing the lives of individuals in palliative care? An exciting job opportunity has come up for a Senior Occupational Therapist to join the wonderful MDT on the Palliative Care Unit, Wansbeck General Hospital.
The successful candidate will need to have post graduate experience of working within palliative care. They will need to feel confident and comfortable working autonomously without direct supervision, and have the skills to guide and support others e.g. OT students and technical instructors. We as a service value enthusiasm, passion, creativity and the ability to motivate self and others.We are committed to supporting personal development and provide a robust supervision, support and governance structure.
Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received
Main duties of the job
To provide a comprehensive Occupational Therapy service to patients with a palliative care need.
To ensure service provision in the specialised area 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 undertake complex assessments, plan, implement and evaluate therapeutic interventions. This work will take place both in patients’ homes and hospital.
To provide leadership for junior and support staff, through supervision and mentoring.
To carry out appraisals with junior and support staff, as delegated by Line Manager.
To participate in the planning, development and evaluation of Occupational Therapy services within the designated area, holding responsibility for defined projects through specialist interest and steering group.
To contribute to the maintenance and development of the Occupational Therapy service.
To regularly supervise undergraduate Occupational Therapy students on practice placement and participate in placement experience of other professionals.
Working for our organisation
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Responsible for: Own clinical practice, delegating work to support staff and supporting students on clinical placements.
To comply with the College of Occupational Therapists Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct and National and Trust procedures.
To work autonomously respecting the individuality, values, cultural and religious diversity of patients and contribute to the provision of a service sensitive to these needs.
Your clinical expertise will be provided where it is required as directed by your line manager.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria- Diploma/Degree in O.T.
- State registered with Health Professions Council. 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).
- Practice placement qualification.
- Post Graduate training relevant to specialist area.
Experience
Essential criteria- Postgraduate training relevant to the specialist area.
- Documented evidence of continuing professional development
- Substantial post registration experience with relevant experience in specialist area including individual and group work.
- Experience and working understanding of audit procedures.
- Experience of providing O.T. in varied settings.
- Experience of working in a community setting.
- Experience of working in an acute and/or in-patient rehabilitation setting.
- Supervision of more junior staff and students
- Experience of research procedures.
Other
Essential criteria- 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.
Applicants who are members of the Armed Forces, and those who have a disability that requires support in the work place (two ticks pledge) and who meet the essential criteria will be interviewed under the Trust's interview guarantee scheme.
We recognise the positive value of diversity and inclusion and are committed to a workforce that is diverse, equal and inclusive. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME people are currently under-represented in our workforce as well as other under-represented groups such as LGBT+ and disabled candidates.We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, a Stonewall Diversity Champion, we have a Gold award from the Defense Recognition Scheme, and we are delighted to support Apprenticeships, Age Posi+ive and are a mindful employer.
If you require any reasonable adjustments to attend interview please make the recruitment team aware as soon as possible by calling our HR Recruitment Team on 0191 203 1415 option 2.
Applicants who meet the Fit and Proper Person Requirements (FPPR) will require additional pre-employment checks in line with CQC and NHS England statutory guidance.
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Please note that it is a requirement of this Trust that all successful applicants pay for their own DBS certification if a DBS check is required for the post. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first monthly pay.