Advanced occupational therapy practitioner

About The Organisation

Here at NHS Lanarkshire, we put the patient at the heart of everything we do. Each colleague within the organisation plays a key role in how we deliver our healthcare services.

We proudly serve a population of 655,000 across rural and urban communities in both North and South Lanarkshire. NHS Lanarkshire is comprised of Acute Services (which currently provide hospital based services over 3 main sites), Corporate & Property & Support Services, North and South Lanarkshire Health and Social Care Partnerships which provide integrated primary healthcare and social care services to local communities and surrounding areas.

The Role

The post holder will function as an autonomous advanced practitioner, undertaking comprehensive advanced assessments, diagnostic evaluations, and delivering highly specialist interventions to ensure the highest standard of clinical care. They will be professionally accountable for providing clinical leadership, as well as the supervision and practice education of Occupational Therapy staff and students within the clinical specialty.

The post holder will lead the development, implementation, and delivery of Occupational Therapy services across the designated clinical specialty, care group, or on a wider NHS Lanarkshire basis. In addition, they will promote and apply evidence-informed practice through clinical audit, research, and continuous service improvement initiatives relevant to the specialist field.

The working pattern for this role is Monday - Friday - days (4 days or 5 days).

In this key role, you will:

• Responsible for Occupational Therapy triage, assessment and rehabilitation for a highly specialist caseload.
• Assess capacity to engage in Occupational Therapy. Gain informed consent and work within a legal framework with patients.
• Communicate highly sensitive diagnostic and prognostic information to patients, relatives, carers, OT staff, members of the multi-disciplinary team and other agencies.
• Assess, plan, implement, evaluate and modify highly specialist treatment interventions to meet complex individual patient needs to optimise occupational performance.
• Use in-depth knowledge of legislation, professional regulation and codes of practice, to lead the development and evaluation of clinical protocols, guidelines and policies.

What You'll Bring:

• Degree in Occupational Therapy with valid HCPC Registration
• Educated to Master’s degree in occupational therapy or relevant specialty, or evidence of working towards Master's level qualification
• Evidence of working at Level 7 Advanced Practitioner of the NMAHP Development Framework
• Evidence of highly developed leadership skills.
• A range of postgraduate education
• A driving licence is required; this must be a full UK/EU/EEA licence.

What we Offer

• Annual Leave - 35 days including public holidays
• Generous NHS pension scheme
• Annual incremental salary progression
• Paid sick leave increasing with length of service
• NHS discounts and more.

NHS Lanarkshire is dedicated to building a diverse workforce where everyone can thrive, develop, and succeed based on their skills, knowledge, and talent - regardless of race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, or care experience* or any other dimension that can be used to differentiate people from one another.

*Care experienced applicants include those who have lived with foster parents, kinship carers, or in residential/secure children’s settings.