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Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
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Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is an award winning NHS Foundation Trust which provides hospital and community health services in North Tyneside, and hospital, community health and adult social care services in Northumberland.
Senior Occupational Therapist (Stroke)
Closed for applications on: 29-Ion-2025 00:00
Statws y swydd wag: Closed
Closed for applications on: 29-Ion-2025 00:00
Manylion allweddol
Lleoliad
- Gwefan
- Wansbeck General Hospital
- Cyfeiriad
- Woodhorn Lane
- Tref
- Ashington
- Cod post
- NE63 9JJ
- Major / Minor Region
- Tyne a Wear
Math o gontract a phatrwm gwaith
- Contract
- Parhaol
- Oriau
- Llawnamser
- Gweithio hyblyg
Cyflog
- Cyflog
- £37,338 - £44,962 per annum
- Cyfnod cyflog
- Yn flynyddol
- Gradd
- (NHS AfC: Band 6)
Arbenigedd
- Prif leoliad
- Occupational Therapy
Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022). 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 and, this is…the Northumbria Way!
What the Northumbria Way means for you:
- Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
- Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
- A range of flexible working opportunities
- Generous annual leave and pension scheme
- Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
- Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
- On-site nursery places via salary sacrifice
- Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank
We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts – rated ‘outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.
We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise – a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people’s lives, such as education, employment and the economy.
If Northumbria Healthcare sounds like somewhere you could belong we would love to hear from you. Visit our website to catch up on our latest news.
Whilst Northumbria Healthcare are a 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 your individual recruitment process, we may withdraw your application at any stage of the process.
Trosolwg o'r swydd
An exciting opportunity has arisen to work within our OT Stroke Service. The successful candidate will be required to offer specialist OT assessment, treatment and discharge support for patients with complex physical and health needs.
Our service covers from Hyper Acute Stroke Unit (HASU) through to inpatient rehabilitation, and into the community with our Early Supported Discharge team. We anticipate that the successful candidate will commence the first 6 months of this position working into HASU before having the opportunity to further build skills within wider OT stroke service.
With a new leadership structure and clinical leads in place, the successful candidate will have access to specialist knowledge and support, opportunities to learn, gain experience and to help shape a service.
The successful candidate will initially work within our Stroke Service before moving into post within the wider OT service. This will allow an opportunity to continue to gain further experience and skills within Northumbria Healthcare's OT Services.
Does this sound like the role for you? If so, we would love to hear from you, if you have any questions or would like further information on this opportunity.
Please contact
Clare Schwalbe - 07500 077 837 [email protected]
Lindsey Rigby - 07745 744 080 [email protected]
Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received
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Main duties of the job:
To ensure the stroke OT service provision is prioritised and service delivery is made effectively within resource constraints.
To manage a defined caseload of patients (often with highly complex and long-term needs), using evidence based clinical reasoning to assess, plan, implement and evaluate interventions.
To undertake highly 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 carryout appraisals with junior and support staff, as delegated by Line Manager.
To participate in the planning, development and evaluation of Occupational Therapy services within a designated area/team, 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.
Gweithio i'n sefydliad
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.
Swydd-ddisgrifiad a phrif gyfrifoldebau manwl
To provide a comprehensive Occupational Therapy service in the specialised area of stroke, managing a caseload of patients (often with highly complex needs), using evidence based clinical reasoning to assess, plan, implement and evaluate interventions.
To provide specialist Occupational Therapy assessment, treatment and discharge support for patients with complex physical and health needs in the area of Stroke Rehabilitation. The service provides occupational therapy in hyper-acute, inpatient rehab and community rehab settings.
The successful candidate will need to have post graduate experience of working within a stroke service. They will need to feel confident and comfortable working autonomously without direct supervision, and have the skills to guide and support others e.g. rotational staff, rehabilitation assistants and technical instructors. We as a service value enthusiasm, passion, creativity and the ability to motivate self and others. We are committed to supporting personal development and provide a robust supervision, support and governance structure.
Person Specification:
Qualifications
Essential
Diploma/Degree in O.T.
Post Graduate experience relevant to specialist area.
State registered with Health Professions Council.
Desirable
Practice placement qualification.
Gofynion yr ymgeisydd
Manyleb y person
Qualifications
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Diploma/Degree in O.T.
- Post Graduate training relevant to specialist area
- State registered with Health Professions Council.
Meini prawf dymunol
- Practice placement qualification.
Experience
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Documented evidence of continuing professional development
- Substantial post registration experience with relevant experience in specialist area including individual and group work.
- Postgraduate training relevant to the specialist area
Meini prawf dymunol
- Experience of providing O.T. in varied settings
- Experience of working in a community setting
- Experience of working in an acute and/or in-patient rehabilitation setting
- Knowledge of or experience in coaching and mentoring practices and tools
Rhagor o fanylion / cyswllt ar gyfer ymweliadau anffurfiol
- Enw
- Clare Schwalbe
- Teitl y swydd
- Band 7 OT Team Lead
- Cyfeiriad ebost
- [email protected]
- Rhif ffôn
- 07500077837
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