Advanced Occupational Therapist

Northumbria Healthcare Nhs Foundation Trust; North East; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust invites a committed Occupational Therapist to join our Paediatric OT Team in North Tyneside. The post involves working with children in mainstream and specialist settings, delivering assessments, treatments and group sessions, and collaborating with health, education and social care colleagues.

The role offers varied opportunities to develop skills within a supportive team, with a focus on compassionate leadership and high-quality patient care.

Qualifications

• Degree or Diploma in Occupational Therapy.
• State registration with HCPC.
• Postgraduate training relevant to the specialist area.
• Practice placement qualification.

Responsibilities

• Provide comprehensive service in the specialised paediatric area.
• Lead on advancing the specialty service and clinical programmes.
• Assess, diagnose and manage highly complex paediatric cases.
• Collaborate with a multidisciplinary team for care planning.
• Supervise and support junior staff and students as required.
• Participate in service development, audits and policy reviews.

Skills

HCPC registered

Postgraduate training

Audit experience

Mentoring

Education

Degree/Diploma in Occupational Therapy

Job description

Job summary

We are delighted to be able to invite a committed and dynamic Occupational Therapist the opportunity to apply for our post to join Northumbria Healthcare and work with the Paediatric Occupational Therapy Team based in North Tyneside. We are looking for an enthusiastic and highly motivated person who has experience and a passion to work with children to join our well established Paediatric Occupational Therapy team. There are many opportunities to develop your skills within a supportive and nurturing team. 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.

Main duties of the job

As part of this role, the post holder will need to have a wealth of knowledge and experience working with children to join our experienced therapists in the different areas provided by the service. These include carrying out comprehensive assessments of a child's motor, perceptual and physical abilities, treatment sessions, either individual or groupwork, equipment and minor adaptations. This is a busy team and provides a good variety and range of experience to work with children who attend mainstream schools, specialist provision and carry out community-based assessments. We work in close partnership with colleagues in health, education and social care to provide a high quality and excellent service. We have excellent working relationships with our colleagues in Newcastle to assist in hospital discharges and sharing knowledge. A typical day working in this team could include a visit to a mainstream school to carry out an assessment of fine motor function to support child's access to their learning, back to the office for lunch, carry out a home visit to support a child and their family to participate safely in activities of daily living then returning back to the office to complete admin tasks. There are opportunities to be part of development work streams as we strive to improve our service delivery and offer for the children, young people and their families.

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 upon 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 responsibilities

To provide a comprehensive service in the specialised area. This post will lead on advancing the specialty service. To provide clinical expertise at an advanced level in the assessment, diagnosis and management of highly complex clients. To provide specialist input to strategic planning, development, audit and evaluation of clinical services, protocols and policies within the specialised area. To work with other lead specialist clinicians providing highly specialised advice and programmes of care. To ensure service provision in the specialised area is prioritised and service delivery is made effectively within resource constraints. To practice within the multidisciplinary team, providing specialist assessments, diagnosis and treatment using advanced clinical reasoning skills. To manage a caseload of clients (often varied and with highly complex needs), using evidence based clinical reasoning to assess, plan, implement and evaluate interventions. To provide leadership and clinical education for senior, junior and support staff, through supervision and day-to-day support. To plan and implement training at a uni-disciplinary and multi professional level in order to enhance services within the specialism and ensure effective clinical practice. To carry out appraisals with junior and support staff, as delegated by Line Manager. To regularly supervise undergraduate students on practice placement and participate in placement experience of other professionals. 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.

Qualifications

Essential

• Degree/Diploma in Occupational Therapy
• State registered with Healthcare Professions Council (HCPC).
• Post Graduate training relevant to specialist area.
• Practice placement qualification.

Desirable

• Practice placement qualification.

Experience and knowledge

Essential

• Extensive post registration experience as an Occupational Therapist including substantial experience in a specialist Senior Occupational Therapist role.
• Experience and working understanding of audit procedures.
• Extensive postgraduate training relevant to specialised area and/or in-depth experience.
• Experience and working understanding of audit procedures.

Desirable

• Extensive post registration experience at an advanced level.
• Extensive postgraduate training relevant to specialist area.
• Knowledge of or experience in coaching and mentoring practices and tools.
• Knowledge of or experience in quality improvement tools, techniques and methods.
• Member of professional body (RCOT)).

Other requirements

Essential

• It is an essential requirement of the role that the post holder has a valid driving licence and is either a car owner and able to use the car for work purposes or has a Trust personal lease vehicle which may be used for the role. However, the Trust would consider making reasonable adjustments to the role, if necessary, to enable a disabled person to undertake the role.

Rehabilitation of Offenders Act Compliance

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.

Skilled Worker Sponsorship

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 (Opens in a new tab).

Criminal Record Certificate

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 (Opens in a new tab).

Professional Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).