LR262167 Highly Specialist Occupational Therapist

NHS Ayrshire & Arran; Ndlambe Local Municipality; On-site; ZAR 626,000 - 715,000; Full time

Job summary

NHS Scotland's Moray Community Hospitals Occupational Therapy Team is seeking a Band 7 Highly Specialist Occupational Therapist to join Seafield Hospital, Buckie, on a 24.5-hour contract.

You will provide an inpatient service across Seafield Hospital’s 22 beds, collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams, assess and treat complex cases, and facilitate discharge home while supporting community rehabilitation for Buckie and Cullen.

Qualifications

• Post-graduate training and experiential knowledge in occupational therapy.
• Willing to undertake further training as needed.
• Supervised by Lead Occupational Therapist and supervise Band 3 staff.

Responsibilities

• Provide inpatient OT service to Seafield Hospital's 22 beds.
• Work with multi-disciplinary/multi-agency teams.
• Assess and treat patients to enable safe and timely discharge home.
• Provide a community rehabilitation service to Buckie and Cullen locality.
• Supervise Band 3 Generic Therapy Support Workers and support OT staff across Moray.

Skills

Post-graduate training

Clinical supervision

Inpatient rehabilitation

MDT teamwork

Education

Post-graduate qualification in Occupational Therapy

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
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If you would like to find out more about this exciting opportunity please contact:
Lisa Ralph, Team Lead Occupational Therapist, [e-mail] or Katie Parry, Deputy Lead Occupational Therapist [e-mail] or Dawn Duncan, Occupational Therapy Manager, Moray [e-mail]
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.