Job summary
- Main area
- Occupational Therapy - Stroke
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 319-7235552LT
- Employer
- Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- North Tyneside General Hospital
- Town
- North Shields
- Salary
- £31,049 - £37,796 Pro rata per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 16/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Occupational Therapist
Band 5
Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022). Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is…the Northumbria Way!
What the Northumbria Way means for you:
- Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
- Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
- A range of flexible working opportunities
- Generous annual leave and pension scheme
- Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
- Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
- On-site nursery places via salary sacrifice
- Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank
We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts – rated ‘outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.
We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise – a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people’s lives, such as education, employment and the economy.
If Northumbria Healthcare sounds like somewhere you could belong we would love to hear from you. Visit our website to catch up on our latest news.
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Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Occupational Therapist to enhance and develop their clinical skills within the speciality of Stroke.
The successful candidate will join our dedicated, compassionate Occupational Therapy Team, who benefit from a strong and recently expanded leadership team who work across all sites within Stroke Northumbria.
Our Occupational Therapy Team operates within a culture of a strong, supportive multidisciplinary model consisting of Occupational Therapists, Technical Instructors, Physiotherapists and Speech and Language Therapists. Therapists work alongside each other to promote person centred goals to enable positive rehabilitation outcomes and the facilitation of a timely discharge.
The Occupational Therapy Team is committed to providing an environment of excellent professional growth. Our expanded leadership team enables staff to benefit from regular supervision and appraisal, in addition to accessing regular team briefs, in house training opportunities and the scope to shape future service development.
Please note this is a band 5 to 6 development / training post, which will provide the successful candidate the opportunities to achieve the required competencies over an 18 month period.
Main duties of the job
· To provide a comprehensive Occupational Therapy service in the specialised area of stroke, supported by senior staff
· To ensure Occupational Therapy service provision is prioritised and service delivery is made effectively within resource constraints.
· To manage a defined caseload of patients (often with highly complex and long-term needs), using evidence based clinical reasoning to assess, plan, implement and evaluate interventions.
· To undertake complex assessments, plan, implement and evaluate therapeutic interventions. This work will take place both in hospital and in patient homes.
· To provide support for support staff and students, with opportunities to work as practice placement educator and participate in junior staff supervision
· To contribute to service development work within Occupational Therapy and the wider stroke rehabilitation service.
· To take a lead in the decision making process for discharge planning through assessment and the analysis of treatment outcomes.
· To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust.
Working for our organisation
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality – opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England?
Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached band 5 and band 6 Job descriptions which outline the main duties of the post and the skill acquisition required over the development period.
This post falls within the provisions of Agenda for Change Annex 20 - Development of Professional Roles, whereby upon completion of an agreed set of competencies you may move onto the next pay band without the need for an application for a post at a higher level.
For further information on Annex 20, please see:
http://www.nhsemployers.org/tchandbook/annex-16-to-20/annex-20-development-of-professional-roles
Person specification
Qualifications & Professional Registration
Essential criteria
- Diploma/Degree in O.T.
- State registered with Health Professions Council.
Desirable criteria
- Practice placement qualification.
Experience and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Documented evidence of continuing professional development
- Experience providing assessment and rehabilitation to adults with complex disability
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working in an acute and/or in-patient rehabilitation setting.
- Experience of working in a community setting.
Other Requirements
Essential criteria
- It is an essential requirement of the role that the post holder has a valid driving licence and is either a car owner and able to use the car for work purposes, or has a Trust personal lease vehicle which may be used for the role. However, the Trust would consider making reasonable adjustments to the role, if necessary, to enable a disabled person to undertake the role
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Clare Schwalbe
- Job title
- Clinical Specialist Occupational Therapist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07500077837
- Additional information
Lindsey Rigby - Clinical Specialist OT
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