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Job role: Occupational Therapist
Salary: £49,387 to £56,515 a year
Company name: NHS Jobs
Job Location: United Kingdom
Job Sector: Healthcare
Job reference: 339-CCS9742-BAL-A
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About the Job:
- Provide and develop a highly specialist Occupational Therapy service to patients within the specialty area, providing advanced clinical leadership and acting as a clinical advisor for the specialty to occupational therapists working in North Bristol NHS Trust.
- Work as an autonomous and highly skilled clinician, without supervision, and be accountable for one’s own professional actions, managing a caseload of adult patients with complex needs, using advanced clinical reasoning, critical thinking, evidence-based principles, and best practice to assess, plan, implement and evaluate interventions.
- Provide leadership and line management for a specialist occupational therapy service to adult patients, ensuring service provision is prioritized across the specialty team and service delivery is effective within resources available. This is to be done within the parameters of all relevant legislation, national and local policies, procedures, standards, and guidelines.
- Ensure staff in the team are supervised and developed, and deal with staffing issues as they arise.
- Provide specialist input, strong professional leadership, and direction to the specialty team in the planning, co-ordination and evaluation of the occupational therapy service and assist the occupational therapy manager in the strategic development of the service.
- Provide training and education to other health care professionals.
- Contribute to the maintenance and development of the Trust wide Occupational Therapy service, leading initiatives related to service development such as audit, research, and training.
- Provide highly specialist clinical and service development advice, and act as a specialist resource within the occupational therapy service.
- Contribute to undergraduate occupational therapy education and regularly supervise students on practice placement.
- Provide specialist input and professional leadership in service development projects within specialty, representing the Occupational Therapy service.
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