Specialist Occupational Therapist Inpatient Stroke

Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust; West Yorkshire; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 46,000; Full time

Job summary

Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an enthusiastic Occupational Therapist to join the Inpatient Therapy Team. You will support Clinical Leads in delivering OT interventions across the stroke ward and contribute to service development and staff training.

The role involves working in a 7-day service with weekend duties and requires NHS experience at undergraduate or postgraduate level.

Qualifications

• Specialist clinician for the Occupational Therapy service with stroke and neuro patients
• Manage own specialist caseload in stroke/neuro
• Work autonomously within Trust policies and professional practice
• Carry out specialist assessment and treatment to facilitate safe, timely discharges

Responsibilities

• Develop, deliver and modify individualised treatment programmes
• Provide specialist advice and liaise with other agencies as required
• Participate in education/training of staff including medical staff
• Support Clinical Lead in day-to-day running of the Rehabilitation Team
• Advise within MDT on service delivery

Skills

Stroke care

NHS experience

Clinical reasoning

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor of Occupational Therapy

HCPC registered

Job description

A permanent opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic Occupational Therapist to join the Inpatient Therapy Team at CHFT. Successful candidates will support the Clinical Leads and Team Leaders in the delivery of Occupational Therapy interventions across the stroke ward and support in the development of the service and its staff. There will be opportunities to be involved in local and Divisional projects which contribute to the overall vision of the organisation.

Applicants should be aware that we provide a 7 day service provision and the successful candidate would be expected to participate in weekend working as part of their role.

Applicants must have had experience in the NHS at undergraduate or post graduate level.

• To act as a specialist clinician for the Occupational Therapy service with stroke and neuro patients, and contribute to evolving and embedding best practice into the clinical area
• To manage own specialist caseload in this area
• Work autonomously within Trust policies and professional practice, maintaining accurate and comprehensive up to date records
• To carry out specialist assessment and treatment of stroke and neuro patients with the aim of facilitating safe and timely discharges and transfer of care
• Develop, deliver, implement, evaluate and modify individualised treatment programmes and/or provide specialist advice, ensuring appropriate pathways of care and communication via liaison and referral to other agencies as required
• Take part in the education and training of Occupational Therapists and qualified and non-qualified healthcare/social services/education staff including medical staff
• To support the Clinical lead in the day to day running of the Rehabilitation Team
• To support and advise within the wider MDT on the delivery of the service

We employ more than 6,500 staff who deliver compassionate care from our two main hospitals, Calderdale Royal Hospital and Huddersfield Royal Infirmary as well as in community sites, health centres and in patients’ homes. We also are incredibly proud to have almost 150 volunteers here at CHFT.

We provide a range of services including urgent and emergency care; medical; surgical; maternity; gynaecology; critical care; children’s and young people’s services; end of life care and outpatient and diagnostic imaging services.

We provide community health services, including sexual health services in Calderdale from Calderdale Royal and local health centres. These include Todmorden Health Centre and Broad Street Plaza.

We continue to modernise and invest in our health services to build on our strong reputation. Foundation trusts are public leaders in improving quality in health services. They are part of the NHS – yet decisions about what they do and how they do it are driven by independent boards. Boards listen to their Council of Governors and respond to the needs of their members – patients, staff and the local community.

Foundation trusts provide what the health service wants, yet are also free to invest quickly in the changes to the local community needs, in striving to be the best, and in putting their patients first.