Band 7 Occupational Therapist

The post holder will provide operational and clinical leadership to a clinical therapy teamincluding staff of different grades and disciplines.

The post holder will work closely with the Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy Acute Team Leads to support team organisation and prioritisation processes. They will deputise for the Clinical Lead Occupational Therapist alongside other team leads; provide advice in relation to occupational therapy matters; and facilitate the resolution of workload/staffing issues.

The post holder will provide, highly specialist assessment and interventions for a caseload

of patients on acute medical and surgical wards demonstrating advanced clinical reasoning

skills and the ability to undertake assessment of complex patients including cognitive assessment, functional and environmental assessment, and to play an active role in discharge planning, identifying the needs of patients and making appropriate recommendations for their onward care or rehabilitation.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will provide operational and clinical leadership to a clinical therapy team including staff of different grades and disciplines.

The post holder will work closely with the Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy Acute Team Leads to support team organisation and prioritisation processes. They will deputise for the Clinical Lead Occupational Therapist alongside other team leads; provide advice in relation to occupational therapy matters; and facilitate the resolution of workload/staffing issues.

The post holder will provide, highly specialist assessment and interventions for a caseload

of patients on acute medical and surgical wards demonstrating advanced clinical reasoning

skills and the ability to undertake assessment of complex patients including cognitive assessment, functional and environmental assessment, and to play an active role in discharge planning, identifying the needs of patients and making appropriate recommendations for their onward care or rehabilitation.

Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.