Clinical Specialist Occupational Therapist

at  Northumbria Healthcare NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

We have an exciting opportunity for a Band 7 Clinical Specialist Occupational Therapist for North Tyneside General Hospital Acute Services.

• To provide a comprehensive service in the specialised area.
• To provide clinical expertise at an advanced level in the assessment, diagnosis and management of highly complex clients.
• To provide specialist input to strategic planning, development, audit and evaluation of clinical services, protocols and policies within the specialised area.
• To work across with other lead specialist clinicians for the identified area, providing highly specialised advice and programmes of care.
• To ensure service provision in the specialised area is prioritised and service delivery is made effectively within resource constraints.
• To practice within the multidisciplinary team, providing specialist assessments, diagnosis and treatment using advanced clinical reasoning skills.
• To manage a caseload of clients (often varied and with highly complex needs), using evidence based clinical reasoning to assess, plan, implement and evaluate interventions.
• To provide leadership and clinical education for senior, junior and support staff, through supervision and day-to-day support.
• To plan and implement training at a uni-disciplinary and multi professional level in order to enhance services within the specialism and ensure effective clinical practice.
• To carryout appraisals with junior and support staff, as delegated by Line Manager.
• To regularly supervise undergraduate students on practice placement and participate in placement experience of other professionals.

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.
Work alongside the Clinical Leads, Team Managers and Operational Manager to provide specialist input to strategic planning, development, audit and evaluation of clinical services, protocols and policies within the specialised area. This post holder will lead and work with the Community Response Service to ensure that service demand is met with the focus on complex discharge planning. The post holder will ensure that all resources are utilised to meet demand, will gather relevant information, liaise with referrers, patients and managers
To offer support and supervision to band 6 staff around discharge planning and ensuring NHCT policies and procedures are adhered to.
Required to ensure an appropriate deployment of staff within the team ensuring an appropriate skill mix across the units.
Required to provide support, direction and guidance on a day to day basis to staff team members and other external agencies.
The post holder will provide a comprehensive service in the specialised area and provide clinical expertise at an advanced level in the assessment, diagnosis and management of highly complex clients.
To promote and ensure safe working practice for all team members both within the office environment and in the wider community at all times-lone working policy, health and safety policy, risk assessments, moving and handling assessments etc.
To facilitate student placements within the team e.g. nurses, social workers, occupational therapists, trainee doctors etc.
To ensure assessments of need are undertaken.
To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries

Please refer the Job description for details