Job summary
- Main area
- 317 Stroke Discharge Team
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 22.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 317-2024-43-05-DR-A
- Employer
- The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Trustwide
- Town
- 317 Trustwide
- Salary
- £37,338 - £44,962 pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 08/12/2024 23:59
- Interview date
- 17/12/2024
Employer heading
Specialist Occupational Therapist
Band 6
Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest and largest NHS foundation trusts in the country, with around 15,000 staff and an annual budget of £1.6 billion.
We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.
We’re in the top five providers of specialised health services in the country, supporting people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.
Our staff oversee around 6,500 patient contacts each day, delivering high standards of healthcare.
We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.
Newcastle Hospitals are proud to be one of the exemplar organisations across the NHS on sustainability, with a long history of delivering Sustainable Healthcare in Newcastle (Shine) and the first healthcare organisation in the world to declare a climate emergency. Our strategy includes commitments to being Net Zero by 2030, for our direct carbon footprint, and Net Zero by 2040 for our footprint plus. Delivering these ambitions will not be possible without the help, support and action of every single member of our team.
Job overview
Newcastle Community Stroke Services is an innovative, award winning Multi-Disciplinary Team committed to delivering high quality community-based stroke rehabilitation for adults. We are part of a well-established integrated stroke pathway ensuring high quality stroke care from acute admission, inpatient rehabilitation to home. We are constantly evolving our practice to provide evidence based therapeutic interventions and use patient and carer feedback to develop rehabilitation pathways that meet our patient’s needs. We are ready to welcome an enthusiastic, creative and dynamic new Specialist Occupational Therapist to our team.
We are a supportive team, dedicated to improving the outcome for stroke patients and provide support for their significant others. We provide education, information and promote self-management skills to complement the patient’s individual rehabilitation journey.
- Interview Date Tuesday 17 December 2024
- 22 hours 30 minutes/week
- You will be redirected to Trac to apply for the vacancy. Please expand the job details section and read all of the information before applying for the vacancy.
Main duties of the job
You will have experience of stroke rehabilitation and be competent in specialist assessment and treatment techniques such as normal movement approach, upper limb therapy and cognitive rehabilitation. You will have a robust knowledge about stroke related disability and the psycho-social impact of this on function. You will be a flexible and creative practitioner, able to develop and carry out Occupational Therapy intervention plans to meet the rehabilitation needs for patients who present with varied and complex sequelae of stroke. All team members take an active role in secondary prevention and healthy lifestyle advice and support for our patients.
You will be required to provide in reach work into the acute and stroke rehabilitation wards to promote an integrated and seamless stroke journey for patients who have experienced a sudden change in function and level of independence.
You will need to effectively manage your caseload autonomously and be effective in time and resource management. You will be required to drive to patient’s homes and occasionally deliver small pieces of equipment.
Working for our organisation
Our staff oversee over 2 million patients ‘contacts’ each year, delivering high standards of healthcare from the following sites:
• Freeman Hospital
• Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI)
• Health Innovation Neighbourhood (on the former Newcastle General Hospital and Centre for Ageing and Vitality site)
• Newcastle Dental Hospital
• Newcastle Fertility Centre
• Northern Centre for Cancer Care, North Cumbria
• Northern Genetics Service
• Cramlington Manor Walks
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’.
For further information on The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust please visit: Careers | Newcastle Hospitals | NHS | Newcastle Hospitals and Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will be responsible for supervising and appraising rehabilitation assistants and Occupational Therapy students. You will be committed to CPD, audit and service improvement and participate in supervision, appraisal and training opportunities.
You will be expected to participate in our weekend on call service (approximately 1 in every 8 weeks) and cover some bank holidays on a rotational basis. This entails carrying the on-call telephone and responding to enquiries and making planned visits to newly discharged patients if required.
Job Purpose
- You will join the team as a Stroke Specialist Occupational Therapist working closely with multi-disciplinary colleagues to deliver client-centered stroke rehabilitation in people’s homes or other community-based settings. It is essential you have excellent verbal and written communication skills to be an effective clinician and team player.
- To provide a high standard of occupational therapy care to complex and highly complex patients within Community Stroke Services evidencing high level problem solving, reasoning skills and independence of judgement.
- To provide day to day supervision of junior and support staff and students working in the specialist area.
- To provide an in-reach service to acute and rehabilitation in-patient settings to provide screening assessment to determine which patients are appropriate for the service and co-ordinate and support a safe transfer home.
- The specialist practitioner is the clinical lead for the Occupational Therapy Service within Community Stroke Services providing highly specialist knowledge within the Trust and externally to therapists and other health care professionals from secondary and primary care.
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.
Person specification
KNOWLEDGE
Essential criteria
- In-depth clinical knowledge of medical conditions / stroke and their effect on occupational performance.
- Highly developed understanding of OT process within community 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.
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of undertaking research and audit projects
- Knowledge of team dynamics and team building.
SKILLS
Essential criteria
- 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.
- Car Driver
Desirable criteria
- IT skills
- Presentation skills.
EXPERIENCE
Essential criteria
- Significant post-registration experience incl experience within stoke and physical health.
- Use of functional assessment and activity analysis.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working with patients with physical disability e.g. stroke and reduced mobility. Team management.
- Experience in supervising staff.
QUALIFICATIONS
Essential criteria
- Degree/Diploma in OT
- State registered with Health Professions Council
- Post graduate experience
Desirable criteria
- Member of BAOT
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Helen Crichton
- Job title
- Occupational Therapist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01912826310
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