Senior Occupational Therapist - Community

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust; Peterborough; Hybrid; GBP 32,000 - 46,000; Full time

Job summary

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an occupational therapist to work as an autonomous practitioner within the Community Rehabilitation team. You will assess, plan and develop specialised OT programmes for patients with a wide range of complex needs, managing your own caseload and prioritising referrals to meet deadlines.

You will supervise junior staff and students, ensuring high-quality patient care while travelling around the county with an independent vehicle and

Qualifications

• Autonomous practitioner capable of delivering specialist OT services within the Community Rehabilitation team.
• Self-motivated with ability to work independently to meet service needs.
• Strong clinical reasoning skills for assessing complex patient needs.

Responsibilities

• Assess, plan and develop specialist OT programmes for patients with complex needs.
• Manage own caseload, prioritise referrals and signpost as appropriate.
• Supervise junior staff and students to ensure high quality patient care.

Skills

Autonomous practitioner

Self-motivated

Clinical reasoning

Caseload management

Team supervision

Job description

Please note for this role you will be required to travel independently around the county meeting strict time deadlines. You will need to hold a full UK driving licence

• and have use of a vehicle. You cannot use public transport for this role as this is not a reliable form of transport and will not allow you to meet service needs.
• We are looking for a self-motivated individual who is able to work as an autonomous practitioner within the Community Rehabilitation team to provide a high standard of care to our patients.
• Your role will include assessing, planning and developing specialist occupational therapist programmes for patients with a wide variety of complex needs.
• You will be responsible for your own caseload, prioritising referrals according to clinical need, signposting appropriately and undertaking assessment of patients with complex and multiple pathologies using, specialist clinical reasoning skills.
• Your role will also include supervision of junior staff and students, overseeing patient intervention and ensuring that Senior Therapy Assistants and Therapy Assistants deliver high quality patient care.
• DVLA have a number ofer eciprocalarrangements with overseas countries, for further information please visit the DVLA website
  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.