Senior Occupational Therapist

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust; Ely; On-site; GBP 43,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

The Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust invites applications for a rehabilitation-focused Senior Occupational Therapist to join Welney Ward at Princess of Wales Hospital, Ely.

You will work on inpatient wards to support patient flow, conduct holistic assessments, and develop tailored rehabilitation and discharge plans while drawing on specialist therapy knowledge under a band 7 clinical lead. There is scope to contribute to transforming the inpatient rehabilitation service.

Qualifications

• Autonomous practitioner in an integrated multi-professional team.
• Manage own caseload with complex pathologies.
• Use specialist clinical reasoning for assessment and planning.
• Identify patient needs, set goals and provide therapy interventions.
• Provide adaptive equipment, rehab programmes and minor adaptations as required.
• Prioritise tasks based on clinical need and maintain high standard of care.

Responsibilities

• Work as autonomous practitioner within the MDT.
• Assess patients with complex pathologies using specialist reasoning.
• Provide therapy interventions, adaptive equipment and rehabilitation programmes.
• Engage patients and carers in decision making and educate peers and staff.
• Be accountable for a delegated caseload managed by Band 5 Therapists and Assistants.
• Work across inpatient wards and community settings within CPFT as required.

Job description

We have an exciting opportunity for a rehabilitaion focused Senior Occupational Therapist to join our Inpatient Rehabilitation Service on Welney Ward, Princess of Wales Hospital, Ely.

This position is working with patients on our inpatient wards to support patients out of hospital and offer holistic clinical assessment, rehabilitation, discharge planning and specialist therapy knowledge.

Successful applicants will play a vital role in supporting patient flow through the pathways as well as providing clinical skills and knowledge to the MDT. This position offers flexibility, variety and the opportunity to be involved in the transformation of our inpatient rehabilitation service. You will be supported by a band 7 clinical lead.

Main duties of the job

• To work as an autonomous practitioner within the integrated multi-professional team.
• To be responsible for own caseload and undertake assessment of patients with complex and multiple pathologies using specialist clinical reasoning skills.
• To identify patient needs, agree goals and provide appropriate therapy interventions, provide adaptive equipment, rehabilitation programmes, and make recommendations for minor adaptations in line with current legislation.
• To keep the patient at the centre of care, ensuring patient and carer participation in decision making. To provide support and education to peers, new staff non-registered staff and students.
• To be accountable for a delegated caseload held by Band 5 Therapists and Assistant Practitioners.
• To prioritise all patients' tasks according to clinical need and to allocate or signpost appropriately. To provide a high standard of care.
• To work in various community settings within CPFT as required, completing access and home visits.

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting and empowering them to lead fulfilling lives.

Our clinical teams deliver a wide range of NHS services across inpatient, primary care and community settings, including children's, adult and older people's mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, and research and development.