South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Senior Occupational Therapist

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Job summary

The Occupational Therapy service at Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council is seeking to recruit a Senior Occupational Therapist. This is a fantastic opportunity to join our amazing, friendly, and supportive team.

The Occupational Therapy service promotes the independence and well-being of adults and children across Redcar and Cleveland, through a range of interventions. These interventions include specialist moving and handling assessments and proportionate handed care techniques, major adaptations and extensions, specialist seating assessments, re-housing support, equipment provision, support into care homes and working with people on a discharge to assess pathways.

The successful applicant will receive excellent management and peer support, and have access to all appropriate training.

Main duties of the job

We have flexible working arrangements to ensure our staff have a good work-life balance and follow a hybrid working model, working from the office and from home. The post is part of the Integrated Occupational Therapy Service, championing integrated working practices across health and social care.

If you are a highly motivated and experienced Occupational Therapist, and committed to making a real difference for adults, children and carers in Redcar and Cleveland, then we would love to hear from you and look forward to receiving your application.

You will need the ability to produce high-quality assessments and documentation, have a working knowledge of relevant legislation relating to OccupationalTherapy in social care andstrong interpersonal, communication and organisational skills

About us

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust offers leadership and improvement training to all new staff to the Trust; this training programme has been designed to support our leaders in developing their understanding of leadership and management skills. You will be expected to attend the leadership development programme, and the Quality Improvement Programme that the Trust delivers. This programme aims to:

Explore leadership within the NHS
Promote Trust Values and Behaviours
Develop your Leadership effectiveness and skills
Practitioner level in quality improvement, equipping you with the skills to champion, lead and complete quality improvement within your role

After you complete this four and a half days of training you will be able to explore further leadership and improvement training opportunities, we offer further in-house courses dependent upon your role and bitesize programmes and leadership apprenticeships at level 3,5 and 7.

Date posted

29 June 2023

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£35,392 to £42,618 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

328-FCS-5341465

Job locations

Seafield House

Kirkleatham Street

Redcar

TS10 1SP

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the full job description and person specification document(s) for main responsibilities of the role.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the full job description and person specification document(s) for main responsibilities of the role.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

hold a degree or relevant Diploma in Occupational Therapy
HCPC registered

Knowledge and Experience

Essential

To have experience in dealing with complex moving and handling situations
To have post graduate experience in a broad range of clinical specialities at a band 5 level
To have knowledge of a variety of seating solutions and know how to carry out a seating assessment

Desirable

Experience working in adult social care
Leadership training and/or experience

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

hold a degree or relevant Diploma in Occupational Therapy
HCPC registered

Knowledge and Experience

Essential

To have experience in dealing with complex moving and handling situations
To have post graduate experience in a broad range of clinical specialities at a band 5 level
To have knowledge of a variety of seating solutions and know how to carry out a seating assessment

Desirable

Experience working in adult social care
Leadership training and/or experience

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Additional information

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Seafield House

Kirkleatham Street

Redcar

TS10 1SP

Employer's website

https://www.southtees.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Seafield House

Kirkleatham Street

Redcar

TS10 1SP

Employer's website

https://www.southtees.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)