Specialist Occupational Therapist - South Community Hospitals

Specialist Occupational Therapist

Are you passionate about the care of older people? Are you interested in rural health care? Are you keen to be actively involved in service development? If so, we have a rare and exciting opportunity for a Specialist Occupational Therapist to join our Clydesdale and Stonehouse Community Hospital Service.

As part of a multidisciplinary team our service provides occupational therapy assessment, treatment and discharge planning for patients within our sites at Lady Home Hospital in Douglas, Kello Hospital in Biggar and Stonehouse Hospital in Stonehouse. We treat, predominantly, older adults with a range of medical conditions including frailty, falls, stroke, dementia, and a wide range of orthopaedic conditions. At our Lady Home and Kello sites we occasionally have patients under the age of 65 years with a range of different health conditions.

We are a forward thinking team consisting of senior health care support workers, assistant practitioners and registered specialist occupational therapists. We regularly support occupational therapy student placements – utilising both traditional and innovative approaches to placements. We are passionate about service development not only within the occupational therapy service, but with the wider MDT. Some recent and ongoing work includes reviewing the MDT approach to reducing falls and continuing to develop our active wards approach. Our current occupational therapy work plan also includes upskilling the AHP team knowledge and skills in working with older people who are neurodivergent, implementation of an outcome measure and improving goal setting.

We have close links with our colleagues working in acute hospitals and also community colleagues from the integrated community support teams and social work. We have active work streams with these colleagues to improve wider services, positively impact on patient care and to share best practice.

We are looking for a motivated, experienced and forward thinking Specialist Occupational Therapist to join our team and to assist in the leadership and development of our team. As a team we will provide a thorough induction, regular supervision, regular team meetings, CPD time and access to training opportunities. This role will provide particular opportunity to develop leadership and service development skills through practical application and access to several NHS Lanarkshire leadership courses (application necessary).

The base of this post and working pattern will be discussed following interview with the preferred candidate. However, travel between the three sites is to be expected to provide clinical cover and support to colleagues as well as to attend meetings / training events.

The Role

The post holder will manage own specialist caseload, using evidence based practice and client centred principles to assess, plan, implement and evaluate interventions.

Provide specialist advice to Occupational Therapy staff and other disciplines / agencies.

Develop specialist clinical skills and may lead clinical audit and undertake research

NHS Lanarkshire

Have you always wanted to work with NHS Lanarkshire? Then this might be the opportunity for you to join Team Lanarkshire!

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.

What we'll need you to bring

• Registered Occupational Therapist with valid HCPC Registration
• Educated to / working towards / operating at Degree Level
• Post graduate expertise within speciality / area of practice that demonstrates the required breadth of knowledge required to lead safety, effectively and efficiently.
• Comprehensive knowledge of clinical guidelines and standards within the speciality / area of practice.
• Specialist knowledge and experience of relevant conditions, pathology, policies and procedures associated with the speciality / area of practice ensuring that the level of expertise can be utilised to deliver leadership within speciality / area of practice.
• Leadership skills to enable the day to day management of service delivery.
• Further education / evidence of Continuous Professional Development in area of speciality including study days / courses / post graduate qualification
• The post holder will possess excellent team-working / leadership skills and have the ability to motivate others and work using own initiative
• Excellent listening, communication and interpersonal skills.
• Effective time management skills
• Working knowledge of basic information technology
• Access to car and have Driving Licence.

Please note for all vacancies where a driving licence is required this must be a full UK / EU / EEA licence.

It would be great if you also have

Contract type

Permanent

Part Time

18.5 hours

Please note this is a part time post and the salary for this position will be pro-rata.

Location and Working Pattern

The base of this post and working pattern will be discussed following interview

Whilst this advertisement may be for a specific post(s) in a particular location, applicants who are shortlisted for interview may be considered for similar vacancies in alternative locations.

Looking to find out more?

If you’re looking to find out more, then we would love to hear from you!

Why NHS Lanarkshire?

Join us and you will discover a supportive environment where you will have the chance to add to your skills and further your career.

Some of NHS Lanarkshire’s benefits include :

A minimum of 27 days annual leave increasing with length of service

A minimum of 8 days of public holidays

Membership of NHS Pension Scheme, with life insurance benefits (for more information on the NHS Pension Scheme visit the )

Paid sick leave increasing with length of service

Occupational health services

Employee counselling services

Work-life Balance policies and procedures

NHS Lanarkshire have a range of support services on topics that can impact both on your working and personal life including occupational health, spiritual care and independent counselling. This support can be accessed using the links on this page.

Further Information

For more information on the role, please refer to the Job Description. If you’re looking for more information on the recruitment process, organisation or the services we provide, please refer to our information pack, or our .