Senior Occupational Therapist - Community Stroke and Neuro NL

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Senior band 6 Occupational therapist to join an established Stroke and Neuro Community team in North Lincolnshire, linking in to the wider stroke pathway, assessing individuals in their own homes and in bedded units, agreeing goals and devising plans with them to then provide appropriate rehabilitation and equipment to support. Where the successful applicant does not meet all essential criteria this post may be offered as band 5-6 developmental opportunity.

• Undertake comprehensive assessment of patients including those with diverse or complex presentations or multiple pathologies; use advanced clinical reasoning skills, including the assessment of cognitive and perceptual impairment, interpreting these assessments and providing appropriate recommendations, considering appropriateness of equipment or recommendations for referral for major adaptation as well as the ongoing rehabilitation provided.
• Assess and manage clinical risk within own and delegated patients
• Assess patient understanding of proposals; gain valid informed consent and work within a legal framework with patients who lack capacity to consent
• Represent the Therapy service and/or individual patients at MDT meetings to ensure the delivery of a co-ordinated multidisciplinary service.
• Work as a lone practitioner with telephone support from a senior Occupational Therapist if required
• Be responsible for maintaining accurate, comprehensive patient treatment records in line with COT Standards of Practice and. To comply with COT Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct and national and local policies and procedures
• To be aware of Trust policies and statutory requirements such as Health and Safety, Equal Opportunities, COSHH, Fire Safety, Complaints and Incident Reporting
  
  Looking for an exciting opportunity? Are you looking for a fun, friendly and supportive team, where the patient is at the centre of all interventions and you, as clinician, are supported by the wider team to achieve their individual goals? Do you want to be part of our supportive, dedicated and hardworking team with strong links to the wider therapy community in the region? Are you eager to provide quality therapy interventions and contribute to the service development agenda for Stroke and Neuro? Are you eager to develop, maintain and continue to add to your wide range of skills in our supportive and integrated therapy team?
  
  NLAG is part of one of the largest acute and community Group arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.
Made up of two Trusts - Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) - our Group has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve. Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH. As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas - biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology. We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Group and our community. Should we receive a high volume of applications the advert may be closed earlier than stated.

As a Trust we are keen to offer and encourage flexible working opportunities to address health and wellbeing and work-life balance for our employees, this will have a positive impact on the care we provide. Flexible working is part of a wider commitment to improve the quality and experience of working life and we recognise that it is a key contributor for the recruitment and retention of our employees. We therefore support and encourage open conversations around a specific working pattern to suit your work-life balance or a multi-role career, if it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen. Local flexible working arrangements are developed in partnership between the line manager and employee in order to ensure equality of access to flexible working, as far as practicable, regardless of role, shift pattern, team or pay, based on: patient/service user and staff experience, service delivery and work-life balance of colleagues. We are committed to creating and maintaining a fair and supportive working environment and culture, where contributions are fully recognised and valued by all and staff feel empowered to carry out their duties to the best of their abilities. As employers we are committed to promoting and protecting the physical and mental health and well-being of all our staff. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution, supports us to be an Employer of Choice and ultimately enables our employees to support the effective care of our patients.