Specialist Occupational Therapist

To conduct timely and proactive assessments of patients requiring an urgent response within two hours of referral.

To provide short-term rehabilitation and follow-up care to support patients' recovery and prevent deterioration.

To assess and engage with frail patients within the Frailty Virtual Ward, supporting them to achieve optimal levels of safety, independence, health and wellbeing.

To work closely with the multidisciplinary team to provide optimum care to patients.

To maintain frail patients safely at home through comprehensive risk assessments and risk management strategies, with the aim of avoiding unnecessary hospital admission.

• To work as an Occupational Therapist within the Frailty Virtual Ward Team.
• To provide a high standard of occupational therapy assessment, intervention, treatment and discharge planning to complex and highly complex patients within specialist area evidencing high level problem solving, reasoning skills and independence of judgement.
• To be an active member of the multi-disciplinary virtual ward team and provide day to day supervision of junior and support staff and students working in the specialist area.
• The specialist practitioner is clinically in charge for the Occupational Therapy Service within the area of practice providing highly specialist knowledge within the Trust and externally to therapists and other health care professionals from secondary and primary care.
• To maintain clinical records.
• To be responsible for own continued professional development.

Whilst Newcastle Hospitals are a forward thinking and highly innovative organisation, the use of Third-Party Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents a risk to the integrity of our Recruitment & Selection processes. If you use AI, and it poses a risk to the integrity of your individual application or to the recruitment process, we may withdraw your application at any stage of the process.

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

With around 2 million contacts with patients every year, we deliver care from:

• Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI)
• Freeman Hospital
• Newcastle Dental Hospital
• Cramlington Manor Walks
• Urgent treatment centres
• Newcastle Fertility Centre
• Northern Centre for Cancer Care, North Cumbria
• Northern Genetics Service

These include a range of flagship services which deliver cutting-edge care (supported by state-of-the-art diagnostic services in both radiology and pathology) and are a catalyst for innovation to support pioneering clinical practice in the NHS.

We also have offices at Regent Point in Gosforth and community sites.

Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust under 'Documents to download' or 'Supporting documents'.

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Essential: - Degree/Diploma in OT; - State registered with Health & Care Professions Council; - Member of BAOT; - Post graduate experience; - Current UK driving licence

Essential: - In-depth clinical knowledge of medical conditions and their effect on occupational performance; - Highly developed understanding of OT process within acute setting; - In-depth knowledge of health and social care policy, risk assessment and management; - Extensive knowledge of a range of disability equipment; - Extensive knowledge of eligibility criteria and procedures/policies relevant to disability equipment, minor housing adaptations; - Highly specialist knowledge of moving and handling legislation and knowledge of current moving and handling best practice and associated equipment; - Excellent understanding of professional ethics and their application into practice; - Good knowledge of clinical governance; - Evidence of CPD; - Significant post-registration experience including experience within physical health; - Use of functional assessment and activity analysis

Desirable: - Experience of working with patients with physical disability e.g., reduced mobility; - Team management; - Experience in supervising staff; - Knowledge of undertaking research and audit projects; - Knowledge of team dynamics and team building

Essential: - Good organisation, time management, problem solving and prioritisation skills; - Supervisory, team management skills; - Ability to work as part of a team; - Commitment to personal and service development; - Effective written and oral communication skills; - Ability to reflect and critically appraise own performance

Desirable: - IT skills; - Presentation skills