Senior Occupational Therapist
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 31 Rhagfyr 2025 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £38,682 - £46,580 Per annum |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 30 Ionawr 2026 |
| Lleoliad: | Hexham, NE16 1QJ |
| Cwmni: | Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 7674054/319-7674054IO-HAS |
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A Vacancy at Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.
We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Occupational Therapist to work into our teams across Hexham General Hospital and Haltwhistle War Memorial Hospital. The post holder will work as part of a multidisciplinary team to provide occupational therapy provision to support safe and timely discharges from acute settings utilising a discharge to assess model.
The successful candidate will have experience working with patients with a wide variety of conditions within a range of medical specialities including frailty/elderly medicine, orthopaedics and stroke. The post holder will be able to manage their own caseload as well as supervise junior and support staff on a daily basis.
Service hours are currently 0830-1630 Monday - Friday. There is an expectation of weekend working across other Northumbria Healthcare sites. Contractual hours are between 0800-2000 and this may be implemented in the future.
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
• To ensure service provision is prioritised and service delivery is made effectively within resource constraints.
• To deliver a comprehensive service for a complex case load.
• To manage a defined caseload of patients, using evidence based clinical reasoning to assess, plan, implement and evaluate interventions.
• To assess for and monitor the provision of adaptations when appropriate.
• To provide clinical education, supervision and support to staff and students within the specialist field.
• To provide specialist advice to families, carers, and other health and social care professionals.
• To participate 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.
• To contribute to the maintenance and development of the Occupational Therapy Team across Northumbria Healthcare Trust. To practice within the multidisciplinary team, providing specialist Occupational Therapy assessments, diagnosis and treatment using clinical reasoning skills.
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.
• To work as part of a multidisciplinary team to provide efficient and effective facilitation of the patient journey through hospital and in community, to achieve safe and timely discharge, seamless transitions and help avoid unnecessary admission and re admission to hospital
• To carry out appraisals with junior and support staff, as delegated by Line Manager.
• To work as part of a multidisciplinary team to provide efficient and effective facilitation of the patient journey through hospital and in community, to achieve safe and timely discharge, seamless transitions and help avoid unnecessary admission and re admission to hospital.
• Managerially responsible to Team Lead
• Clinically responsible to clinical OT Lead.
• To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote
ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams/departments and across organisational boundaries.
This advert closes on Wednesday 14 Jan 2026
We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Occupational Therapist to work into our teams across Hexham General Hospital and Haltwhistle War Memorial Hospital. The post holder will work as part of a multidisciplinary team to provide occupational therapy provision to support safe and timely discharges from acute settings utilising a discharge to assess model.
The successful candidate will have experience working with patients with a wide variety of conditions within a range of medical specialities including frailty/elderly medicine, orthopaedics and stroke. The post holder will be able to manage their own caseload as well as supervise junior and support staff on a daily basis.
Service hours are currently 0830-1630 Monday - Friday. There is an expectation of weekend working across other Northumbria Healthcare sites. Contractual hours are between 0800-2000 and this may be implemented in the future.
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
• To ensure service provision is prioritised and service delivery is made effectively within resource constraints.
• To deliver a comprehensive service for a complex case load.
• To manage a defined caseload of patients, using evidence based clinical reasoning to assess, plan, implement and evaluate interventions.
• To assess for and monitor the provision of adaptations when appropriate.
• To provide clinical education, supervision and support to staff and students within the specialist field.
• To provide specialist advice to families, carers, and other health and social care professionals.
• To participate 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.
• To contribute to the maintenance and development of the Occupational Therapy Team across Northumbria Healthcare Trust. To practice within the multidisciplinary team, providing specialist Occupational Therapy assessments, diagnosis and treatment using clinical reasoning skills.
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.
• To work as part of a multidisciplinary team to provide efficient and effective facilitation of the patient journey through hospital and in community, to achieve safe and timely discharge, seamless transitions and help avoid unnecessary admission and re admission to hospital
• To carry out appraisals with junior and support staff, as delegated by Line Manager.
• To work as part of a multidisciplinary team to provide efficient and effective facilitation of the patient journey through hospital and in community, to achieve safe and timely discharge, seamless transitions and help avoid unnecessary admission and re admission to hospital.
• Managerially responsible to Team Lead
• Clinically responsible to clinical OT Lead.
• To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote
ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams/departments and across organisational boundaries.
This advert closes on Wednesday 14 Jan 2026