LR262167 Highly Specialist Occupational Therapist

NHS Grampian; Buckie; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 52,000; Part time

Job summary

NHS Grampian is recruiting a Highly Specialist Occupational Therapist Band 7 to join the Moray Community Hospitals OT Team at Seafield Hospital, Buckie. You will deliver inpatient and community rehabilitation services, working with multi-disciplinary teams to enable safe discharge and optimal patient outcomes.

The role includes clinical supervision by the Lead OT and supervising Band 3 support staff across Moray, with opportunities for further training and professional development in a

Qualifications

• Post-graduate training and experiential knowledge.
• Willingness to undertake further training.
• Experience supervising Band 3 Generic Therapy Support Workers.

Responsibilities

• Provide an inpatient service to Seafield Hospital’s 22 beds and work with multi-disciplinary teams.
• Assess and treat patients with varying conditions to facilitate discharge home.
• Deliver a community rehabilitation service to the Buckie and Cullen locality.
• Supervise Band 3 Generic Therapy Support Workers and support Moray OT staff.

Skills

Post-graduate training

Experiential knowledge

Willingness for further training

Supervising Band 3 staff

Job description

Highly Specialist Occupational Therapist

Seafield Hospital, Buckie - Moray H&SCP

Band 7

24.5 hours (0.68 WTE)

Permanent

Seafield Hospital is a busy Community Hospital serving patients from the Buckie locality and across Moray and needs a suitably qualified Band 7 Highly Specialist Occupational Therapist. This successful applicant, as a member of the Moray Community Hospitals Occupational Therapy Team, will provide an inpatient service to patients in Seafield Hospital’s 22 beds working closely with the multi-disciplinary/multi-agency teams. The successful applicant will assess and treat patients with a variety of conditions and complexity to facilitate their safe and timely discharge home and also provide a community rehabilitation service to the Buckie and Cullen locality. The post holder will be able to demonstrate post‑graduate training and experiential knowledge and be willing to undertake further training. You will be clinically supervised by a Lead Occupational Therapist and in turn supervise Band 3 Generic Therapy Support Workers and provide support for Occupational Therapy staff across the Moray localities. The Moray Occupational Therapy Team is a well‑established team with robust supervision, mentoring, quality review and audit frameworks and we strive to provide an excellent service to our patients. We also have close working relationships with our AHP and multidisciplinary colleagues in Moray and across NHS Grampian and national links. Moray is an extraordinarily beautiful place to live and work. https://www.visitscotland.com/info/towns-villages/moray-firth-p236771 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHFNBb3EVIQ If you would like to find out more about this exciting opportunity please contact: Lisa Ralph, Team Lead Occupational Therapist, or Katie Parry, Deputy Lead Occupational Therapist or Dawn Duncan, Occupational Therapy Manager, Moray NHS Scotland is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. To this end, NHS Scotland welcomes applications from all sections of society.

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NHS Grampian forms one of the fourteen regional health boards of NHS Scotland and is responsible for providing health and social care services to a population of over 500,000 people living in Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire and Moray. As a board we strive to ensure the environment is conducive to nurturing a positive culture, supported and delivered through our NHS and Social Care values.