Clinical Specialist Occupational Therapist

Are you a qualified Occupational Therapist with significant post graduate NHS experience looking for your next career step? Want to enhance your experience and lead clinical OT practise across different patients and care settings in one of the UK's largest hospital Trusts?, As a Clinical Specialist Occupational Therapist you will work alongside a team of Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, and support staff, to deliver high quality care utilising quality improvement and evidence-based healthcare.

This will include interventions around early assessment, re-enablement and discharge planning working closely with the MDT and utilising clinical reasoning skills for a complex and diverse case-mix of patients.

This will include cognitive assessment, and functional assessment amongst other core occupational therapy skills. Covering a variety of different wards across the hospitals, this is great chance to work with a wide range of patients and develop your experience of different specialties, including Oncology, Haematology, Urology and Infectious Diseases., The role offers the opportunity for an Occupational Therapist to grow their personal and professional development with both breadth and depth across a framework of clinical practice, education, leadership, and quality improvement & research.

There will be opportunities for:

Supervision and mentorship of Therapy staff

A variety of teaching/training commitments within the team, division and Acute Therapy Services

Organisation of service delivery and selected line management responsibilities

Participation in a range of clinical governance/assurance/management forums

Service development

Therapy Services provides a number of services over 7 days (including Saturday, Sunday and bank holidays). Successful candidates may be expected to contribute to these rosters as part of their contracted hours.

Comprehensive post-registration experience including experience at specialist/senior level within an acute medical/oncology or surgical environment/speciality

Sound knowledge, skills and experience in the education, training and development of pre-registration and post-registration learners

Excellent communication and team-working skills

A commitment to quality improvement, evidence-based healthcare and collective leadership

This vacancy is advertised on a fixed term contract basis for a period of a of nine months due to maternity leave of the substantive post holder. The fixed term contract status of the post holder will be reviewed in accordance with the Trust's legal obligations regarding fixed term contracts and statutory maternity provisions.

Please note all existing NHS staff will only be considered on a secondment basis. This must first be agreed with your current line manager.

You will be working for an organisation which values and respects all its staff and the community it serves. The Trust is a leader in the NHS and research sectors and provides excellent benefits for its staff. This includes commitments to professional development but also many policies to support employees in balancing their personal and professional lives.