Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust
Senior Occupational Therapist
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Role Overview
As a Band 6 Occupational Therapist within orthopaedic and medical wards, you will provide advanced, patient-centred assessment and rehabilitation for individuals recovering from fractures, joint replacements, spinal injuries, complex trauma, acute medical conditions, and functional decline. You will use enhanced clinical reasoning to deliver evidence-based interventions that promote independence, optimise functional outcomes, and support safe, timely discharge.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide supervision, guidance, and informal training to Band 5 OTs, support workers, and students, helping to build clinical capability across the team.
- Actively participate in audit, quality improvement, and pathway development to enhance patient flow and rehabilitation standards across orthopaedic and medical wards.
- Manage a varied complex caseload with a high degree of autonomy, demonstrating strong decision-making in areas such as discharge planning, equipment prescription, environmental modification, and risk management.
- Perform advanced Occupational Therapy assessment of patients with diverse presentations and complex physical and psychological conditions.
- Use advanced clinical reasoning skills to provide a diagnosis and to develop and deliver an individualised treatment programme.
- Responsible for managing own caseload and a defined area of the service, working without direct supervision.
- Supervise, educate and assess students, assistants and Band 5 staff and provide specialised advice to other health care professionals in the specific clinical area.
- Undertake evidence-based audit and research projects to further develop own clinical practice and development of the service area.
- Make recommendations on changes to practice to the clinical lead/manager. May lead the implementation of specific changes to practice or contribute to development of service protocols.
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Requirements
- Confident communication, adaptability in a fast-paced environment, and the ability to balance clinical leadership with hands-on patient care.
- Participation in the 7-day working rota.
About the Humber Health Partnership
The Humber Health Partnership is one of the largest acute and community Partnership arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion. Made up of two Trusts - Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) - our Partnership has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.
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Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.
As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas - biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.
We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Partnership and our community.
Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Megan O'Hara
- Job title: Operational Lead
- Email address: megan.ohara1@nhs.net
- Telephone number: 07825120051
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