SENIOR OCCUPATIONAL THERAPIST - VARIOUS (up to £3,000 market supplement)
Posting date: | 09 January 2025 |
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Salary: | £38,626 to £41,511 per year |
Hours: | Full time |
Closing date: | 22 January 2025 |
Location: | HU1 3SA |
Company: | Hull City Council |
Job type: | Permanent |
Job reference: | 32435 |
Summary
Are you looking for a new challenge and to make a positive difference to the people of Hull? Then join our Occupational Therapy workforce as a Senior Occupational Therapist. We are looking for those working at, or ready to step up to a senior role (equivalent to NHS Band 6). We are looking for enthusiastic and motivated individuals with a passion for Occupational Therapy. You will have or be developing specialist clinical skills, leadership skills and understand application of legislation in practice.
In Hull, Occupational Therapy is a vital function of Adult Social Care, ensuring that individuals can maintain their independence and live life to the fullest in their own homes.
There are many opportunities across Adult Social Care for professional development within the 4 pillars (RCOT career framework), that will enable you to broaden your skill set. We will provide support to enhance and progress your leadership skills, clinical expertise and be involved with research as part of our work with the Curiosity Partnership. We run monthly OT CPD sessions.
As a valued leader, you will be providing supervision and clinical oversight of other staff members within the Occupational Therapy team including mentoring apprentices’, students, and preceptors.. We offer protected time to develop skills in practice education. You will contribute to service development, policy and process for Occupational Therapy, ensuring OT is embedded within the wider Social Care offer. The role will support the application of trauma informed approaches and rights based practice.
As a Senior Occupational Therapist, you will carry a complex case load across a range of areas including Moving and Handling, reablement, specialist equipment, rehousing and major adaptations. You will use solution focussed conversations, to agree goals with people as part of a proportionate assessment process. Where appropriate, contribute to, or lead on statutory assessment and review of individuals care and support needs under the Care Act 2014. There is an opportunity to develop an area of specialist interest as a champion, or enhance skills with training such as Best Interest Assessor accreditation.
You will have the opportunity to work with a varied case load including:
Complex long term neurological conditions
Life limiting illnesses
Offenders within prison and in the community
Homelessness
Self neglect / hording
Reablement
Learning difficulties and autism
Children transitioning into adulthood (16-25)
We also offer a variety of opportunities to rotate between teams and work flexibly including full or part time hours, 7 or 5 day working and possible term time only working by negotiation (7 Day working includes weekends on a rota basis with alternative days off in the week).
For an informal discussion about the role, please contact Victoria Goldsbrough on 01482 612707.
This role is not available for sponsorship therefore is only open to applicants who have the right to work in the UK.
Please ensure that your application demonstrates how you meet the essential criteria against the person specification as listed in the job description.
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