Highly Specialist Occupational Therapist

NHS; Texas; On-site; USD 70,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Une opportunité passionnante s'offre pour un Highly Specialist Occupational Therapist au sein de notre équipe de thérapie professionnelle communautaire. Ce rôle de leadership implique la gestion de cas complexes et l'adhésion à des normes élevées de pratique au sein de l'équipe. Le candidat idéal possédera des compétences robustes en gestion et en raisonnement clinique, et sera motivé pour l'amélioration continue du service.

Benefits

Flexibilité des horaires de travail

Congés annuels généreux

Activités pour le bien-être

Opportunités de formation continue

Qualifications

• Expérience post-diplôme considérable dans des domaines spécialisés.
• Être capable de travailler de manière autonome et de gérer un cas clinique spécialisé.
• Bonnes compétences en gestion du temps et capacité à accomplir des tâches.

Responsibilities

• Soutenir le Team Lead pour assurer la gestion efficace de l'équipe.
• Gérer un cas de patients avec des besoins complexes.
• Adhérer aux politiques et procédures locales et nationales.

Skills

Autonomie

Gestion d'équipe

Raisonnement clinique

Organisation

Communication

Education

Diplôme ou certificat en ergothérapie

HCPC Registration

Membre de la BAOT

Job description

Go back Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust

Highly Specialist Occupational Therapist

The closing date is 22 June 2025

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a motivated and enthusiastic Highly Specialist Occupational Therapist to join our Community Occupational therapy team, specialising in equipment and adaptations.

Experienced and confident in your decision making, you will be required to support the Team Lead to ensure effective and timely day to day management of the Community Occupational Therapy Team. A strong leader, you will be adept at applying a motivational and coaching approach to leading junior team members. Using well-honed organisational and prioritising skills to ensure all individual team members are supported in the best way for them.

With the future in mind, innovation and a commitment to service improvement is integral to this position. An energy for making things happen and enthusiasm for progress are qualities we are keen to harness in this highly specialist role.

We would welcome the opportunity to discuss the role further and introduce you to our team, for further details / informal visits please contact: Details below

Main duties of the job

You will support the Team Lead to ensure effective and timely day to day management of the Community Occupational Therapy Team.

You will hold a caseload of patients with complex and challenging needs.

You will ensure local and national policies / guidelines and protocols are adhered to within the team.

You will be responsible for understanding and incorporating evidence base into day to day practice of the team.

You will ensure effective occupational therapy provision for patients is maintained

You will provide advice and education to manage patients with complex needs.

About us

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives. As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we're always looking for people who demonstrate our threecore values - care, appreciate and inspire - to join our team. In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.

Job responsibilities

To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about working at the Northern Care Alliance within the attached Candidate Information Pack or by visiting our careers website: www.careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk

Person Specification

Qualifications and experience

• Degree or diploma in Occupational Therapy
• Evidence of considerable post graduate experience in relevant specialist areas
• HCPC registration
• Membership of BAOT
• Membership of a specialist interest group

Skills & Knowledge

• Ability to work autonomously and take responsibility for specialist clinical caseload.
• Good working knowledge of how clinical governance affects practice, including quality, audit and risk management
• Able to present information in a clear and logical manner
• Enabling effective team working
• Effective liaison with other professionals and partnership working
• Teaching and supervision of others
• Ability to use advanced clinical reasoning, making professional judgements in complex and challenging situations
• Manage conflict and defend own viewpoint effectively
• Manage complaints or queries in a positive and constructive manner
• Formal supervision and appraisal of others
• Contribution to the recruitment process
• Addressing poor performance in others
• Enable patient choice and participation and support others to do so
• Proven organisational skills including time management, prioritising and the ability to complete a task.
• Involvement in and responsibility for service development activity
• To have an understanding of and adhere to relevant Trust/national policies and procedures including, but not limited to, data protection, equal opportunities and health and safety.
• Able to travel across NCA sites and community to meet patient need, access training and attend meetings
• Application of HR policy with regards staff management

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust