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The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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For further information on The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust please visit Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

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Address: Royal Victoria Infirmary; Queen Victoria Road; Newcastle upon Tyne; Tyne and Wear; NE1 4LP
Contact Number: 0191 282 0999 option 2

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Cyf: 317-2024-43-05-DR-A ID y swydd wag: 6794550

Specialist Occupational Therapist

Closed for applications on: 9-Rhag-2024 00:03

Statws y swydd wag: Closed

Closed for applications on: 9-Rhag-2024 00:03

Lleoliad

Gwefan: Trustwide
Tref: 317 Trustwide
Cod post: ND7 7DN
Major / Minor Region: Tyne a Wear

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Contract: Parhaol
Oriau: Rhan-amser - 22.5 awr yr wythnos

Cyflog

Cyflog: £37,338 - £44,962 pro rata
Cyfnod cyflog: Yn flynyddol
Gradd: (Band 6)

Arbenigedd

Prif leoliad: 317 Stroke Discharge Team

Dyddiad y cyfweliad: 20/12/2024

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.

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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.

Important note on completion of reference section of Application Form

All references from current and previous employers will be sought and must cover a minimum of 3 years employment. Therefore, when completing the reference section of your application form, please give the address, telephone number and work email address of each of your current/previous line managers that cover 3 years employment. Failure to complete this section may result in your application not being processed.

Please note it is a requirement of The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust that all successful candidates who require a DBS for the post they have been offered pay for their DBS certificate. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first month’s pay.

Candidates who are shortlisted for interview will be contacted by e-mail. You should check your SPAM folders as well as your inbox. If you have not been contacted within 4 weeks of the closing date you should assume your application has been unsuccessful.

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