Clinical Specialist Occupational Therapist – Community Stroke Service

Wye Valley NHS Trust

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Job summary

We have an exciting opportunity to recruit an experienced Occupational Therapist to join the Community Stroke Service.

This role would be an excellent opportunity to broaden your leadership experience, providing clinical leadership to Occupational Therapists working in the Community Stroke Service. You will also work alongside the Team lead and Physiotherapy lead to provide senior support to the team.

We also have excellent links with the in-patient stroke service and other community teams.

We are looking for an Occupational Therapist that will be able to demonstrate safe, patient centred approach to care, underpinned by sound clinical knowledge in evidence-based assessment. You should be a practitioner with excellent communication skills and the ability to work autonomously.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be responsible for clinical management of the Occupational Therapists and jointly with the Physiotherapy lead for the Therapy Support Workers and Therapy Assistant Practitioners.

This role will include ensuring good caseload management and meeting the needs of the service and patients,

The post holder will have excellent skills in the assessment and treatment of stroke patients.

The role is community based so the post holder will need to be able to fulfil the travel requirements.

About us

Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire NHS FT , the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.

Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.

We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care we'd want for our family and friends.

More than 3,500 people work for the Trust - they tell us it's a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.

We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.

Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman: "The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential."

Our values -Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time...all the time.

Date posted

09 August 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£43,742 to £50,056 a year pro rata for part time hours

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Part-time

Reference number

229-IC-6493330

Job locations

Vaughan building, Belmont Abbey

Ruckhall Lane

Hereford

HR2 9RP

Job description

Job responsibilities

For more information about the role and responsibilities please see the attached job description and person specification.

Job description

Job responsibilities

For more information about the role and responsibilities please see the attached job description and person specification.

Person Specification

Education and Qualifications

Essential

HCPC registered
Professional Qualification to degree level or equivalent in Occupational Therapy
Evidence of or willingness to undertake further training at Masters level

Desirable

Leadership/Management qualification

Skills, knowledge and abilities

Essential

Broad, developed and advanced knowledge of relevant patient conditions and therapy interventions
Demonstration of knowledge of core and highly specialist Therapy skills
Extensive evidence of ongoing CPD in relevant area
Experience of multi-disciplinary communication, assessments and record keeping
Ability to work autonomously using highly specialist knowledge, skills and initiative in sometimes complex situations acknowledging role boundaries

Experience

Essential

Extensive NHS or equivalent experience in relevant area
Experience of team leadership, management and positive role modelling
Supervisory experience

Other Factors

Essential

Ability to fulfil the travel requirements of post

Person Specification

Education and Qualifications

Essential

HCPC registered
Professional Qualification to degree level or equivalent in Occupational Therapy
Evidence of or willingness to undertake further training at Masters level

Desirable

Leadership/Management qualification

Skills, knowledge and abilities

Essential

Broad, developed and advanced knowledge of relevant patient conditions and therapy interventions
Demonstration of knowledge of core and highly specialist Therapy skills
Extensive evidence of ongoing CPD in relevant area
Experience of multi-disciplinary communication, assessments and record keeping
Ability to work autonomously using highly specialist knowledge, skills and initiative in sometimes complex situations acknowledging role boundaries

Experience

Essential

Extensive NHS or equivalent experience in relevant area
Experience of team leadership, management and positive role modelling
Supervisory experience

Other Factors

Essential

Ability to fulfil the travel requirements of post

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.