Occupational Therapist Band 6 - North East England, United Kingdom - The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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Specialist Occupational Therapist (Band Stroke Discharge Team - The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust – Tyne and Wear

We have an opportunity for an Occupational Therapist to further develop their stroke rehabilitation skills and knowledge, contribute to service development, enhance leadership skills, and engage in continuing professional development.

This is a permanent, part time post with Newcastle Community Stroke Services. We are an innovative, award winning Multi-Disciplinary Team committed to delivering high quality community-based stroke rehabilitation for adults.

We are part of a well-established integrated stroke pathway ensuring high quality stroke care from acute admission, inpatient rehabilitation to home.

We are constantly evolving our practice to provide evidence based therapeutic interventions and use patient and carer feedback to develop rehabilitation pathways that meet our patient's needs.

We are ready to welcome an enthusiastic, creative, and dynamic Specialist Occupational Therapist to our team.
We provide education, information and promote self-management skills to complement the patient's individual rehabilitation journey.

Are you looking for an opportunity to further develop your stroke rehabilitation skills and knowledge, contribute to service development, enhance your leadership skills, and invest in your own continuing professional development? to provide education, information and promote self-management skills to complement the patient's individual rehabilitation journey.

~ You will be redirected to Trac to apply for the vacancy. Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest, largest and most successful teaching NHS foundation trusts in the country, with around 16,000 staff and an annual income of £1 billion.

We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.

We're also proud to be the second largest provider of specialised services in the country.

This means we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.

Our staff oversee around 2 million patients 'contacts' each year, delivering high standards of healthcare.
We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment.

We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients.

We welcome all applications irrespective of people's race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.

To provide a high standard of occupational therapy care to complex and highly complex patients within Community Stroke Services evidencing high level problem solving, reasoning skills and independence of judgement.

To provide day to day supervision of junior and support staff and students working in the specialist area.

To provide an in-reach service to acute and rehabilitation in-patient settings to provide screening assessment to determine which patients are appropriate for the service and co-ordinate and support a safe transfer home.

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you.

Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.

Please note it is a requirement of The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust that all successful candidates who require a DBS for the post they have been offered pay for their DBS certificate.

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