Specialist Occupational Therapist | The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 12 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £35,392 - £42,618 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 12 May 2024 |
| Location: | 317 Trustwide, NE7 7DN |
| Company: | The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6224807/317-2024-14-033-A |
Summary
We are looking for an experienced and motivated and flexible Occupational Therapist to join our Stroke/Neuro rehabilitation team.
Initially, you will be based on ward 9 Stroke Rehabilitation at the Freeman Hospital, but you will also then be expected to be able to cover the Hyper Acute Stroke Unit and Neurosciences/Neurology at the RVI, when required, however training and supervision will be provided.
As well as using all of your core OT skills, this job centres on rehabilitation, which means that you are able to experienceof skills, such as;
• Using the Normal Movement Approach and physical rehabilitation
• Using and interpreting standardised cognitive and perceptual assessments and planning purposeful therapy to assist development of the patient’s skills.
• Group work
• Social integration within the hospital and the patient’s home
• Patient led Goal Planning and working closely with family and carers
• Educating the wider MDT regarding the patient’s specific difficulties..
• Interview date: 9th May 2024
• 37 hours 30 minutes /week
• You will be redirected to Trac to apply for the vacancy. Please expand the job details section and read all of the information before applying for the vacancy.
• To carry a caseload of complex and highly complex patients within the specialty providing specialist therapy assessment and treatment, evidencing high level problem solving, reasoning skills and independence of judgement.
• To be an active member of the inter-disciplinary team to ensure a consistent, equitable and high quality evidence based service is developed to meet the needs of patients.
• To be responsible for own continued professional development and facilitate a learning culture within the team undertaking audit and practice development.
• To provide day to day supervision of junior and support staff and students working in the specialist area.
• To provide highly specialist knowledge within the Trust and externally to therapists and other health care professionals from secondary and primary care.
• To provide a high standard of occupational therapy care to complex and highly complex patients within a specialist area evidencing high level problem solving, reasoning skills and independence of judgement
Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest, largest and most successful teaching NHS foundation trusts in the country, with around 16,000 staff and an annual income of £1 billion.
We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.
We’re also proud to be the second largest provider of specialised services in the country. This means we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.
Our staff oversee around 2 million patients ‘contacts’ each year, delivering high standards of healthcare.
Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust.
We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.
• To provide a high standard of occupational therapy care to complex and highly complex patients within a specialist area evidencing high level problem solving, reasoning skills and independence of judgement
• The specialist practitioner is the clinical lead for the Occupational Therapy Service within the area of practice providing highly specialist knowledge within the Trust and externally to therapists and other health care professionals from secondary and primary care
Within the neurological team there are many staff with years of knowledge to lead, develop and teach you all the skills that you require.
You will have considerable post-registration experience in the acute hospital setting, strong personal management and communication skills.
Excellent time management and organisational skills and the ability to work under pressure are also essential requirements of this post
Please note it is a requirement of The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust that all successful candidates who require a DBS for the post they have been offered pay for their DBS certificate. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first month’s pay.
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
This advert closes on Tuesday 23 Apr 2024
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