Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced, proactive and motivated Occupational Therapist within our multidisciplinary Community Response Services team, based at Cobalt Business Exchange.
Our team look to provide crisis and planned assessment and intervention in the community to help avoid unnecessary admission and re-admission to hospital.
The post holder will work with colleagues and patients to help deliver a 2 hour urgent response or same day response to health and social care crisis. They will also support patients requiring assessments and rehabilitation having been discharged from hospital into to the community setting and supported onto our virtual award. There are opportunities to work with patients with a wide range of health conditions.
Our team comprises of Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Technical Instructors and Associate Therapy Practitioners. We work closely alongside our Nurse Practitioner and pharmacy colleagues.
If you would like to discuss the post further, we welcome visits from interested candidates.
Our service operates 8am - 8pm, 7 days a week. Working patterns within these hours will be considered to accommodate individual needs, in line with needs of the service.
Main duties of the job
- 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 and Community Response Services.
- 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 Community Response Service across Northumbria Healthcare Trust. To practice within the multidisciplinary team, providing specialist Occupational Therapy assessments, diagnosis and treatment using clinical reasoning skills.
About us
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.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- 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.
- Managerially responsible to Team Lead
- Clinically responsible to 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 promoteownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams/departments and across organisational boundaries.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- BSc. (Hons) degree/diploma in Occupational Therapy or equivalent
- State registered with Health Professions Council.
- HPC registered.
- Significant post registration qualification
Desirable
- Practice placement qualification
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website .
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants .
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website .
Employer details
Employer name
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Address
CBX Business Exchange
Cobalt Park Way
Wallsend
NE28 9NZ