Highly Specialist Occupational Therapist
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 03 Mehefin 2026 |
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| Cyflog: | £49,387.00 i £56,515.00 bob blwyddyn |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £49387.00 - £56515.00 a year |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 15 Mehefin 2026 |
| Lleoliad: | Warrington, WA5 1QG |
| Cwmni: | NHS Jobs |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | C9370-AHP7THE-1773 |
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Patient / Clinical Care 1. To manage your clinical caseload with autonomy, guided by policies, procedures, codes of practice and departmental working practices. 2. To undertake a comprehensive assessment of patients including those with a complex presentation, using investigative and advanced analytical skills and clinical reasoning. 3. Using developed knowledge and experience to make a therapeutic diagnosis of a patients condition and interpret clinical findings and documentation to formulate a comprehensive specialised programme of care, including decision making about the most appropriate treatment options. For example, where self-referral occurs, clinical diagnosis is made and a programme of care is developed. 4. To supervise less experienced staff and students in the provision of patient care. 5. To provide planned and spontaneous advice to patients/clients, junior staff, staff of other disciplines, formal and informal carers and relatives. 6. To have highly developed physical, dextrous and manipulative skills for the treatment of patients, which may involve the use of specialist equipment relating to the area of therapy. 7. To be responsible for maintaining and managing accurate and comprehensive treatment records in line with professional and local standards for themselves and their team. 8. To frequently exert physical effort in cramped conditions and sustained postures for periods of up to 40 minutes several times a day. This would include moving patients as part of their treatment or moving equipment. 9. With every patient, concentration is required to listen, observe, evaluate, document, plan and act on information gathered. Work can frequently be unpredictable and interrupted. 10. To deal frequently with distressing or emotional situations, such as dealing with patients and families who are distressed due to acute or a terminal illness, those who are elderly, those with special needs and those experiencing prolonged ongoing deterioration. 11. To have daily contact with patients bodily fluids, odours, dust, etc. Management Responsibilities 1. To be the line manager for a multi-professional team managing referrals into the service, workload prioritisation and allocation within the team, taking into account the changing/competing demands. 2. To be responsible for the day-to-day management of a team, including annual leave, sickness, initial handling of complaints, disciplinary issues and recruitment. This will also include dealing with staff who may be upset. This may be due to clinical and managerial issues. 3. To play a key role in the coordination of activities with other agencies, such as discharge planning and case management. 4. To propose and implement policy/procedures and service improvements, which may impact across the directorate as a whole. 5. To be responsible for the safe and competent use of equipment and resources by staff and patients and ensure that equipment is monitored and maintained in good condition. 6. To ensure that accurate management information is collected and collated for the team. 7. To act as an authorised signatory for the team, including the signing of travel expense sheets, locum and overtime time sheets and equipment purchases, totalling more than £1000 per month. FULL JOB DESCRIPTION ATTACHED