Highly Specialist Therapist

Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Exeter; Hybride; GBP 42 000 - 55 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Blue Light Card discounts

NHS Pension

Cycle to work scheme

Nursery onsite at Exeter (OFSTED-rated

Car lease schemes

Résumé du poste

Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Highly Specialist Therapist (OT) to join the senior clinical team in East Devon. The role focuses 100% on clinical activity with leadership across the Neighbourhood Team, guiding care for long-term condition patients and promoting person-centred, independent living.

You will provide expert assessment, supervise clinical practice, and influence service development while working collaboratively with Community Matrons, Response

Responsabilités

• Provide expert assessment, clinical reasoning and evidence-based intervention for people with complex and multifactorial needs.
• Manage a complex clinical caseload including triage, holistic assessment, care planning, intervention and ongoing review.
• Support admission avoidance and timely hospital discharge and rehabilitation in the patient’s preferred place of residence.
• Lead and support implementation of evidence-based clinical standards and contribute to quality improvement.

Connaissances

Clinical assessment

Clinical reasoning

Leadership

Teaching/mentoring

Interdisciplinary collaboration

Description du poste

Following a recent secondment, we have an exciting opening in our senior clinical team in East Devon. The Highly Specialist Therapist is open to Occupational Therapists. This is a new and exciting role that gives the candidate the ability to be 100% focused on clinical activity. The role provides a strong focus on our long-term condition patients working in partnership with the Community Matrons and Response Practitioners to ensure patients have a seamless transition through their care journey and their needs are known and met through their leadership and working with others.About the Role For more information on the Job Description and Responsibilities please click the link below. More detail about the role The Highly Specialist Therapist role works within Community Rehabilitation, providing expert assessment, clinical reasoning and evidence-based intervention for people with complex and multifactorial needs. The post-holder manages a complex clinical caseload, including triage, holistic assessment, care planning, intervention and ongoing review, supporting admission avoidance, timely hospital discharge and rehabilitation in the person's preferred place of residence. They will provide specialist advice, consultation and clinical support to colleagues across the multidisciplinary Neighbourhood Team, promoting coordinated, person-centred care that maximises independence and quality of life. The post-holder will promote professional practice excellence through clinical supervision, complex case discussion, teaching, reflective practice and service development. They will lead and support the implementation of evidence-based clinical standards; contribute to quality improvement and help maintain a skilled, knowledgeable and proactive workforce. The role will remain strongly patient-facing, while providing senior clinical oversight and professional leadership at the point of care and across the service. The post-holder will be expected to promote and encourage a strength based, self-management approach to long term conditions, as well as fostering healthy working relationships with the wider multidisciplinary team and voluntary sector in their area.

Looking after you is important to us. We strive to help our staff create a healthy work-life balance through flexible working schemes and our family friendly policies. If you are starting out in the NHS, you'll start with 27 days paid annual leave (plus bank holidays), rising to 33 days plus bank holidays. You will benefit from access to our own comprehensive occupational health services, including counselling, onsite wellbeing activities and groups. We will work together to maintain a culture that develops and supports you and your team. This might include funding for a care certificate, a degree or leadership qualifications. Or it might include days off to study, engage in CPD or rotational placements to help you hone your skills. Wherever you are heading in the NHS, we will help you get there.

Salary is not the only financial benefit You will have access to an extensive range of staff discounts on shopping, fitness and leisure options and you can spread the cost of technology and home appliance purchases from major retailers. You will also have access to other benefits including:

• National discount services such as the Blue Light Card and Health Service Discounts.
• Salary sacrifice options including our OFSTED rated outstanding nursery onsite at Exeter
• Car lease schemes.
• The NHS Pension scheme (one of the most generous and comprehensive in the UK).
• Cycle to work scheme

These are just a few of the benefits available - if the role is something you are interested in, we would love to hear from you.