Occupational Therapist

仕事内容

We are on a continuous journey of improvement and transformation , however our main priority is, and always will be, providing safe and high quality care to our patients every day; the kind of care we would want for ourselves and our loved ones. If you share our passion then apply for this opportunity and help us make our patients’ experience the best it can possibly be.

With a budget of around £270m, three hospitals and 5,500 staff, North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust provides hospital-based services to the population of Hartlepool, Stockton on Tees and parts of East Durham and Sedgefield as well as community, therapeutic and screening to a wider population across Durham and Teesside.

Job Overview

North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust

Therapy Services (Trustwide)

Band 6 Occupational Therapist

Care Group 2- Responsive Care, Ward 27

12 Month fixed term contract

37.5 hours per week.

We currently have an exciting opportunity for a band 6 occupational therapist to work within one of our acute wards as part of the MDT offering occupational therapy assessment and interventions to help support patients who are admitted to an acute medical ward and have on-going mental health difficulties. It will be expected that the post holder will introduce the expert occupational therapy role into a Gastroenterology ward, providing skilled support to patients presenting with an acute admission associated with mental health difficulties such as a people with eating disorders and drug or alcohol dependency This is post is a full time post and will join the ward team but maintain professional links with the wider AHP team.

Main duties of the job

• Health promotion/prevention
• Making every contact count
• Rehabilitation needs identification and liaison with appropriate community services
• Representation at relevant clinical meetings
• Participate in patient/family choice meetings
• Provide specialist clinical advice to other healthcare professionals including those in the acute setting with limited mental health experience.
• Maintain a focus on achieving and demonstrating overall improvements in health care, prevention of inappropriate admissions and timely discharges from hospital.
• Coordination of team resources as dictated by annual leave, sickness, escalation etc.
• Maintain a focus on achieving and demonstrating overall improvements in health care, prevention of inappropriate admissions and timely discharges from hospital.
• To provide clinical leadership/management to other professionals and support the managers in developing services..
  

Working for our organisation

This is a new post therefore we are looking someone who is able to lead this as a project as a dedicated health care professional who can be flexible in their approach and possess the aptitude to adapt quickly to new situations.

For an informal discussion in relation to these posts, please contact Paul Caygill Senior Clinical Matron on 07799883347 or Siobhan Smith on 07880501048

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

The post holder will assess the needs of patients to enhance the acute care provided whilst developing techniques to manage on-going care post discharge. Examples of needs based therapy interventions, as well as non-clinical duties, will include any or all of the following:

• Health promotion/prevention
• Making every contact count
• Rehabilitation needs identification and liaison with appropriate community services
• Representation at relevant clinical meetings
• Participate in patient/family choice meetings
• Provide specialist clinical advice to other healthcare professionals including those in the acute setting with limited mental health experience.
• Maintain a focus on achieving and demonstrating overall improvements in health care, prevention of inappropriate admissions and timely discharges from hospital.
• Coordination of team resources as dictated by annual leave, sickness, escalation etc.
• Maintain a focus on achieving and demonstrating overall improvements in health care, prevention of inappropriate admissions and timely discharges from hospital.
• To provide clinical leadership/management to other professionals and support the managers in developing services.
  

Person specification

criteria

Essential Criteria

• professional registration
• 1-3 years experience
• extended practice
  

Desirable criteria

• previous work with eating disorders
• previous work with alcohol dependency
• previous work within primary and secondary care