Overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Occupational Therapist to join our teams across the community hospitals. This post provides operational and clinical line management for Therapists, Assistant Practitioners and support staff at Aldeburgh and Felixstowe community hospitals, whilst also providing professional supervision for occupational therapists at Bluebird Lodge and Avocet Court. Your role will ensure therapy services across the community bedded units deliver high quality, patient‑focused care and rehabilitation supporting safe and timely discharge.
Responsibilities
* To be professionally and legally responsible for all aspects of the role including patients in the jobholder’s care.
* To provide visible leadership to the multidisciplinary team on a day to day basis.
* To support all members of the MDT with complex professional discussions with patients/relatives/staff.
* To be responsible for completion of incident investigations and lead on serious incident investigations when required.
* To take a lead role in authorising specialist equipment.
* To undertake highly specialised therapy assessments for a wide variety of conditions to establish impairments and disabilities, using standardised and/or validated assessment tools where appropriate.
* To liaise as appropriate with MDT members for patients who require specialist assessment.
* To be aware of the contra‑indications to assessment/treatment in patients and identify when it is safe/unsafe to initiate intervention.
* To use advanced communication skills to agree therapy goals with individual patients, ensuring goals are specific, measurable, achievable, realistic and appropriately timed.
* To monitor and evaluate treatment to measure progress and ensure effectiveness of the intervention, identifying quickly when treatment requires modification.
Qualifications and Requirements
* Outstanding communication and leadership skills.
* Highly developed clinical expertise.
* Self‑motivated and flexible to meet the needs of patients and service.
* Full driving licence, as the role requires cross‑site working, including in rural areas.
Benefits
* Generous pension scheme.
* Unsocial hours payments (where applicable).
* 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro‑rata).
* Access to a range of NHS discounts.
* Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offering a variety of services.
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