Clinical Specialist Band 7 Occupational Therapist
Medicine Therapy Team - Preston Lodge.
We have an exciting opportunity for a Clinical Specialist Occupational Therapist to join the therapy team at the newly opened Preston Lodge (UHL) as part of the Phase 2 opening in November 2025.
Preston Lodge will be a 56-bedded reablement-focused unit providing the 3R model (rehabilitation, reablement, and recovery) for patients who are not yet ready to return home and have been referred for a D2A pathway from UHL. The aim is to improve patient care and experience, and support faster discharges.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Manage a complex clinical caseload from assessment to discharge/transfer of care within defined protocols to facilitate safe and timely discharges.
2. Provide education to patients and carers to encourage participation in managing their condition, on an individual or group basis.
3. Liaise with and involve patient's carers with treatment as appropriate.
4. Make onward referrals and engage with System Partners to support patient discharges.
5. Set outcome-related goals with patients to meet their needs and standards of the department.
6. Utilize specialist techniques for handling patients with physical deficits, often within confined spaces.
7. Plan, deliver, and progress treatment interventions using clinical reasoning to achieve patient goals.
8. Manage the Preston Lodge OT clinical caseload, ensuring high standards of intervention aligned with the College of OT Code of Professional Conduct.
9. Apply knowledge of OT processes to deliver appropriate treatments and support clinical decisions.
Our Strategy and Values:
Our strategy (2023-2030) focuses on four primary goals: high-quality care, a great place to work, impactful partnerships, and research and education excellence. We are committed to embedding health equality in all we do, working in partnership with communities.
Our core values are:
* Compassionate
* Proud
* Inclusive
* One team
This is an exciting moment to contribute to our future goals, building on our strengths and areas for growth.
About the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust:
http://www.leicestershospitals.nhs.uk/aboutus/work-for-us/current-vacancies/
Additional Information:
Alongside the Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist, you will provide leadership to a team of Therapists (OTs, Physios, TSWs) at Preston Lodge. You will demonstrate excellent communication and time management skills, working within a multidisciplinary team to assess and intervene with patients with complex cognitive and physical needs to facilitate safe and effective discharge. Significant experience in rehabilitation and discharge planning for complex patients, including those with cognitive impairments, is required. Previous D2A setting experience is highly beneficial.
You will be part of the wider Medicine Therapy team working across LRI and LGH. Support on other UHL sites may be required.
This advert closes on Thursday 14 Aug 2025.
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