Specialist Occupational Therapist - ICST

at  University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust

We are looking for a highly skilled and experienced Occupational Therapist to join our multidisciplinary team within the Integrated Community Stroke Team, covering the Furness and South Lakes area. The successful candidate will be able to provide outstanding, personalised and compassionate care to stroke survivors. You will provide clinical supervision to junior staff members to ensure best practice and support the ongoing development of the service. You will work across both the acute and community settings providing evidence-based rehabilitation to those who have experienced a stroke. You will work on a rotational basis between acute and community (this will be flexible as per the service demands) and require access to a car. The service provides intensive and routine input to those who have goal-specific needs. The service currently runs as a 6-day acute service including Saturdays and 5 day community, with the future aim of being a 7 day acute and a 6 day community service.
You will be working alongside the MDT which is made up of Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Speech and
Language Therapists, Assistant Practitioners and a Team administrator, all of whom are dedicated and passionate to provide outstanding care to
stroke survivors. We have a Clinical Lead Occupational Therapist from whom you will get regular supervision and support. The successful applicant will be passionate about Stroke and ideally have some experience working within Stroke and/ or Neuro bringing with them a wealth of knowledge, transferable skills and behaviours suitable for the post.
The successful applicant will ideally have a range of band 5 experience and be able to provide holistic care to those patients who may have complex and diverse needs.
The role when working across both acute and community pathways, is to support the assessment and treatment of stroke survivors, to assist with
discharge planning, family/carer communication, attending daily/weekly MDTs, providing goal-led rehabilitation, delegation of work/tasks and overseeing the more complex patients, supporting the junior staff as required and liaison with the wider MDT.
We operate from three main hospitals-Furness General Hospital (FGH) in Barrow, the Royal Lancaster Infirmary (RLI), and Westmorland General Hospital (WGH) in Kendal, as well as a number of community healthcare premises including Millom Hospital and GP Practice, Queen Victoria Hospital in Morecambe, and Ulverston Community Health Centre.
FGH and the RLI have a range of General Hospital services, with full Emergency Departments, Critical/Coronary Care units and various Consultant-led services.
WGH provides a range of General Hospital services, together with an Urgent Treatment Centre, that can help with a range of non-life threatening conditions such as broken bones and minor illnesses.
All three main hospitals provide a range of planned care including outpatients, diagnostics, therapies, day case and inpatient surgery. In addition, a range of local outreach services and diagnostics are provided from community facilities across Morecambe Bay.
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Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay visiting our website https://www.uhmb.nhs.uk

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