Advanced Occupational Therapist

Overview

Band 7 Occupational Therapist responsible for delivering innovative and high quality Occupational Therapy assessment, intervention and support to children and their families across the Newcastle, North East and Cumbria region referred to the paediatric oncology service. Supervision of the Band 6 Occupational Therapist within the team with responsibility for service delivery and developing links with other specialist children’s cancer services; multi-professional working and working groups across the UK and overseas.

Participation in quality improvement projects, audit and implementation of best practice guidance with the children's Occupational Therapy service ensuring demonstrating caring and compassionate care and leadership.

• Hours:
  
  37 Hours 30 Minutes/Week
• Location:
  
  Urgent treatment centres

• Carry out complex Occupational Therapy assessment and intervention to children and their families referred to and under the care of the children’s Oncology team
• Offer supervision and support to junior members of staff and students
• Participation in audit and service improvement projects
• Attendance of staff meetings and Band 7 meetings
• Maintaining professional registration and evidencing continuing professional development
• Completing risk assessments both at home and within school to support a child s occupational participation
• Undertaking moving and handling assessments
• Carrying out postural assessments and making recommendations accordingly

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. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

With around 2 million contacts with patients every year, we deliver care from the following sites:

• Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI)
• Freeman Hospital
• Newcastle Dental Hospital
• Cramlington Manor Walks
• Urgent treatment centres
• Newcastle Fertility Centre
• Northern Centre for Cancer Care, North Cumbria
• Northern Genetics Service

These include a range of flagship services which deliver cutting-edge care (supported by state-of-the-art diagnostic services in both radiology and pathology) and are a catalyst for innovation to support pioneering clinical practice in the NHS.

We also have offices at Regent Point in Gosforth and community sites.

Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust under ‘Documents to download’ or ‘Supporting documents’.

For further information on The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust please visit:
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• To provide a high standard of occupational therapy care to non-complex, complex and highly complex patients within specialty evidencing high-level problem solving, reasoning skills and independence of judgement.
• The Advanced OT will be a highly specialist practitioner and is the clinical lead for the Occupational Therapy Service within specialty providing highly specialist knowledge within the Trust and externally to therapists and other health care professionals from secondary and primary care across the region.

KNOWLEDGE

Essential criteria

• In-depth clinical knowledge of medical/neurological conditions and their effect on occupational performance (master’s level equivalent)
• Highly developed understanding of OT process within acute setting
• In-depth knowledge of health and social care policy, risk assessment and management
• Extensive knowledge of a range of disability equipment
• Extensive knowledge of eligibility criteria and procedures/policies relevant to disability equipment, minor housing adaptations
• Highly specialist knowledge of moving and handling legislation and knowledge of current moving and handling best practice and associated equipment
• Excellent understanding of professional ethics and their application into practice
• Good knowledge of clinical governance
• Evidence of CPD

Desirable criteria

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