Senior Occupational Therapist - Stroke Service
University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust
Are you an Occupational Therapist with a passion for stroke / neurology and looking to develop your skills in a senior role? Due to the expansion in our Stroke service, we have opportunities available for full or part-time hours, including a substantive or secondment contract within the Stroke Therapy team.
Our Stroke Service comprises of a 38 bedded (including hyper-acute beds) Acute Stroke Unit at the Royal Derby Hospital with a further extension of 10 extra beds within the acute setting. There is also a 21 bedded Stroke Rehabilitation Unit at Florence Nightingale Community Hospital. Our valued OT service is embedded across the inpatient pathway.
We are a forward-thinking service, utilising an evidence-based approach to ensure the provision of a quality-based service and therefore optimising outcomes for our stroke patients.
We are looking for a senior Occupational Therapist who enjoys being part of an MDT, is resourceful and enthusiastic, and can demonstrate the impact and value that Occupational Therapy can bring to the stroke pathway.
Our MDT have specialist knowledge/skills which they will be able to share in supervision and individual sessions. You will have regular in-service training with our Clinical Specialist OT and will be encouraged to use your study days and seek external training, such as NCORE.
Main duties of the job
To work in support of senior Occupational Therapists to provide a high standard OT service for stroke patients.
To be responsible for supervising and teaching junior staff, assistants, and students working within the same specialty.
To provide advanced occupational therapy assessment and treatment to stroke patients and provide specialist advice and support to other professionals regarding the management of stroke patients throughout the Trust.
* You will be required to demonstrate that you are:
* Organised and efficient
* Have demonstrable experience in stroke care
* Relevant working knowledge of the National Stroke Guidelines/ NICE standards
* Have experience of supervising and teaching others
* An enthusiastic and motivated team member
* Flexible and adaptable to meet service requirements
* Genuinely interested in supporting the needs of those with complex physical and cognitive impairment
* Able to work on your own as well as part of a team
* Flexible with regard to 7-day working
Closing date of applications: 12th February 2025
Date of interview: 26th February 2025
About us
As a trusted organisation at the heart of our communities, we recognise the important role we can play in supporting the public, patients, our own people, and local partners in achieving the best of health for the local population and the communities in which they live by providing Exceptional Care Together.
Our fundamental Values of Compassion, Openness, and Excellence underpin how we intend to work as a Trust, and the associated behaviours are becoming embedded in all aspects of how we work.
In return we will offer:
* Development opportunities, both professional and leadership development
* On-going support from recruitment to when you join our team and beyond
* Staff benefits including employee assistance programme, discounted gym membership, onsite fitness classes, car schemes
Job responsibilities
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Person Specification
Qualification
* HCPC registered
* Occupational Therapy Degree
* Evidence of CPD maintained in portfolio
* Further relevant post-graduate training courses attended
Experience
* Post-graduate experience, including neurology and rehabilitation
* Experience working as part of an MDT
* Experience of contributing to clinical education of less experienced staff/students
* Experience of supervising staff and completing appraisals
* Involvement in audit, research, and understanding quality issues
Skills and Ability
* Planning and organisation skills to enable effective time management of own patients
* Evidence of delegating tasks appropriately
* Evidence of seating and wheelchair assessment and prescription skills
* Demonstrate an advanced level of written and verbal communication skills
* Evidence of effective moving and handling of patients as part of the assessment and rehabilitation process
* Evidence of the assessment and fabrication of splints
Knowledge
* Comprehensive working knowledge of the role of OT in stroke
* Evidence of knowledge in the area of cognition and perception
* Evidence of a working knowledge of stroke guidelines
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust
Lead Occupational Therapist Acute Stroke Unit
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