Job overview

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 rehab?  Are you eager to develop, maintain and continue to add to your wide range of skills in our supportive and integrated therapy teams?

Then we could be the team you are looking for….

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a  temporary Senior band 6 Occupational therapist to join an established  Stroke and Neuro Community team in  North Lincolnshire, linking in to the wider stroke pathway, and within the Neuro Rehabilitation Centre at Goole.  Both posts will involve  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. 

This is a temporary fixed term post until 25th September 2026.  This can cover both areas as a full time position or could be suitable as two part time positions of 22.5 hours and 15 hours each.  

Main duties of the job

• 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

Working for our organisation

The Humber Health Partnership is one of the largest acute and community Partnership 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 Partnership 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 Partnership and our community.