Job Description

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Band 6 Occupational Therapist to join our Occupational Therapy Team, based at Wansbeck General Hospital.

Your primary job role will be to provide Occupational Therapy to our inpatients and facilitate hospital discharges by performing Discharge to Assess in patients own homes. You will also have an opportunity to supervise and support more junior staff.

It is an essential requirement of the role that the post holder has a valid driving licence and is either a car owner and able to use the car for work purposes, or has a Trust personal lease vehicle which may be used for the role. However, the Trust would consider making reasonable adjustments to the role, if necessary, to enable a disabled person to undertake the role.

Working within Occupational Therapy team based at WGH. Aim is to provide high quality and timely OT services to facilitate discharges.

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, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality – opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way!

Please read ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application.

To provide a comprehensive Occupational Therapy service in the specific specialised area.

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 Occupational Therapy assessments, diagnosis and treatment using clinical reasoning skills.

To manage a defined caseload of patients (often with highly complex needs), using evidence based clinical reasoning to assess, plan, implement and evaluate interventions.

To undertake complex assessments, plan, implement and evaluate therapeutic interventions. This work will take place both in patients’ homes and hospital.

To provide leadership for junior and support staff, through supervision and mentoring.

To carry out appraisals with junior and support staff, as delegated by Line Manager.

To participate in the planning, development and evaluation of Occupational Therapy services within the designated area, holding responsibility for defined projects through specialist interest and steering group.

To contribute to the maintenance and development of the Occupational Therapy service.

To regularly supervise undergraduate Occupational Therapy students on practice placement and participate in placement experience of other professionals.

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.

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