University Hospitals Tees
Senior Occupational Therapist/ Senior Physiotherapist

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About the Role
This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced, dynamic and enthusiastic Occupational Therapist to join our Inpatient Therapy Team. The post holder will be employed as a Senior Occupational Therapist working collaboratively with other Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists and Assistants across the Front of house and virtual ward and medical wards.
About the Trust
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest teaching hospital trusts in the country, close to the North Yorkshire Moors and within easy reach of Newcastle and Leeds. It comprises two acute hospitals, James Cook University Hospital and Friarage Hospital Northallerton and a number of community hospitals.
Therapy services at South Tees NHS trust are also part of the wider Integrated OT service. This is a unique partnership between Health and Social care in South Tees with a commitment to working together, improving the quality of our services and getting rid of existing barriers between health and social services.
Responsibilities
The post holder will be expected to have experience in the occupational therapy assessment and management of acute care patients, patient flow and facilitating discharges and have gained experience across a variety of specialities.
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The Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy Service are well established large, progressive and dynamic services, which continue to develop within the Trust. The team is friendly and supportive and mentorship for this role will be available from senior clinicians and the AHP Service Leads.
Development
This post offers development in clinical and leadership skills and the post holder will be supported to attend relevant post graduate courses. We have an established and comprehensive training programme and our staff are encouraged and supported in their CPD through workshops, clinical supervision and the appraisal process. There is also an expectation to actively participate in audit and research and the Hospital has close links with both the University of Teesside and Durham University.
We support the Making Every Contact Count approach to behaviour change in the promotion of health and wellbeing of individuals and communities.
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South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust offers leadership and improvement training to all new staff. This training programme has been designed to support our leaders in developing their understanding of leadership and management skills. You will be expected to attend the following training sessions:


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After you complete these six and a half days of training you will be able to explore further leadership and improvement training opportunities. We also offer a range of additional in-house and externally provided courses and bitesize programmes through our Leadership and Improvement Team.
Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Gavin Callaghan
- Job title: Inpatient Therapy Team Lead
- Email address: gavin.callaghan5@nhs.net
- Telephone number: 01609 763050
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