We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Occupational Therapist to work in our team at Wansbeck General Hospital. The post holder will work as part of a multidisciplinary team to provide efficient and effective facilitation of the patient journey within the inpatient setting to achieve safe and timely discharge, seamless transitions, and help avoid unnecessary admission and re-admission to hospital.
Responsibilities include:
1. Ensuring service provision is prioritized and service delivery is effective within resource constraints.
2. Delivering a comprehensive service for a complex caseload.
3. Managing a defined caseload of patients, using evidence-based clinical reasoning to assess, plan, implement, and evaluate interventions.
4. Assessing for and monitoring the provision of adaptations when appropriate.
5. Providing clinical education, supervision, and support to staff and students within the specialist field.
6. Providing specialist advice to families, carers, and other health and social care professionals.
7. Participating in the planning, development, and evaluation of OT services within a designated area/team, holding responsibility for defined projects through specialist interest and steering groups.
8. Contributing to the maintenance and development of the Occupational Therapy Team across Northumbria Healthcare Trust.
9. Practicing within the multidisciplinary team, providing specialist Occupational Therapy assessments, diagnosis, and treatment using clinical reasoning skills.
10. Carrying out appraisals with junior and support staff, as delegated by the Line Manager.
11. Role modeling compassionate and inclusive leadership to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust.
Managerially responsible to Team Lead and clinically responsible to Clinical OT Lead.
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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