Clinical Specialist Occupational Therapist - CRS Team

Please see the attached Job Description for more details of the main duties and responsibilities of the role which include: The post-holder will act as a Clinical Specialist Occupational Therapist in the Cardiology, Respiratory and Surgery Therapy Team at the James Paget University Hospital The post-holder will be required to work autonomously and carry a clinical caseload, taking a lead role in the advanced assessment and treatment of patients who may have complex pathology and social issues, in order to determine a clinical diagnosis and formulate an intervention plan To provide highly specialist advice and teaching to occupational therapy, physiotherapy, and therapy assistant practitioner colleagues and to other members of the multidisciplinary team To support the education of students in an educator role as required Ensure the teams workload is appropriately prioritised and work is effectively distributed and coordinated across the team on a day-by-day basis To work closely with the multidisciplinary teams in order to receive referrals and use patient information to help prioritise the workload To be proactive in service development and individual development within the teams, implementing changes as and when appropriate including policy changes To provide clinical leadership to physiotherapy and occupational therapy staff in the therapy team Clinical/professional supervision takes the form of direct observation of practice or formal training/clinical reasoning sessions (at least monthly). Advice and support are always available To work a rostered seven-day service/shift pattern within the James Paget University Hospital Please watch the following videos for an insight into our

Integrated Therapies Department

Landscape version

https://youtu.be/tklpzav7UrU.

Portrait version

https://youtube.com/shorts/U4lwU9T1wKA?feature=share