Senior Occupational Therapist - Winsford CC & Elmhurst

at  Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

An exciting opportunity to join a diverse, dedicated and lively team in Winsford has arisen. We are looking for a caring compassionate experienced occupational therapist to come and join our team!
The role will be part of the Winsford Care Community Team, based at Dene Drive Primary Care Centre, working across the Winsford community footprint and working in the Elmhurst Intermediate Care Centre, the discharge to assess unit based in Winsford. The successful candidate will work closely with all therapy and nurse colleagues in the care community and will be expected to provide supervision to other therapy staff and assistants.
The clinical role of the band 6 Occupational Therapist (OT) is to perform specialist functional assessment of patients within the community setting with diverse presentations and complex physical and psychological conditions. You will also hold responsibility for assessing patients in their home setting, and working as independent practitioners when needed.
Part of the non-clinical role of a Band 6 OT is to teach, assess and contribute to the performance assessment and appraisal of newly qualified therapy, assistant therapy staff and OT students. CCICP encourages internal development, and supporting colleagues on their career journey is a key part of this senior OT role.
The successful candidate will also demonstrate robust and positive leadership qualities and have the ability to work under pressure.
Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides a full range of hospital and community services for people across East Cheshire (population 399K) and West Cheshire and Chester (population 357K). The Trust provides high quality planned and emergency care, cardiac, critical care, child health, maternity services and intermediate care at Leighton Hospital in Crewe, Victoria Infirmary in Northwich, and Elmhurst Intermediate Care Centre in Winsford.
The Trust provides over 500 beds and employs over 5,100 members of staff. A comprehensive range of community services is provided across 26 medical centres and schools through our Central Cheshire Integrated Care Partnership.
We have played, and continue to play, a proactive role in the development of Integrated Care plans across Cheshire & Merseyside and our local Cheshire East and Cheshire West Place-based systems. We believe, and it is the cornerstone of our five-year Trust Strategy, there is the opportunity to progress innovative, responsive and effective care in the best setting for the patient, be it in the hospital or out in the community.
At Mid Cheshire, our mission is to inspire hope and provide unparalleled care for the people and communities of Cheshire, helping them to enjoy life to the fullest.

EDUCATION/LEARNING

To attend staff, peer review and in-service training meetings.
Take responsibility for own learning and development by recognising and taking advantage of all opportunities to learn, including full participation in Motiv8’s, supervision, action learning and by maintaining a professional/personal portfolio of learning.
Clinically supervise newly qualified Physiotherapists and physiotherapy assistants and undertake Motiv8’s and junior objective appraisal setting as required.
To act as a clinical educator and contribute to the education and training of Occupational Therapy students to graduate level

Please refer the Job description for details