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Advanced Practitioner Occupational Therapist
Major Trauma
Band 7, Permanent, Fulltime
Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly skilled and motivated Advanced Practice Occupational Therapist to join the Major Trauma service, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh (RIE). The successful candidate will play a pivotal role in clinically leading a dynamic team of Occupational Therapists ensuring the delivery of high-quality rehabilitation services throughout the patient journey from Critical Care through the Major Trauma Service. Flexibility and experience in managing Major Trauma care is essential combined with proven leadership skills.
The successful candidate will have responsibility for a complex clinical caseload within the major trauma service. They will ensure delivery of evidence-based and client-centred principles to assess, implement and evaluate interventions to patients with potentially life changing injuries. They will implement best evidenced practice for occupational therapy pathways for early intervention rehabilitation and supporting patients with the transition from the acute setting to home. This role plays a key part in the patient journey – working closely with patients and the multidisciplinary team to identify patient centred rehabilitation goals and deliver holistic rehabilitation. Alongside this there is a key role in further establishing and developing the clinical service across the wider major trauma service for poly trauma and traumatic brain injury.
They should have senior clinical experience working as an Occupational Therapist within an acute or rehab specialty with the ability to lead in the provision of clinical expertise, offering advice and support to patients, their carers and other health care professionals. They will engage with national networks, have positive connections with university establishments and be actively involved at specialist conferences. They will be an excellent team player with strong communication and interpersonal skills. They will foster positive and collaborative team culture, integrating best practices into the team's approach and have previous experience of undertaking service development/QI practices.
There will be a commitment to weekend working in the occupational therapy team at RIE as part of the 5 over 7 day working pattern.
The successful candidate will be supported by the Occupational Therapy Site Lead, join an established group of band 7 leads across the Royal Infirmary site and contribute to hospital wide service delivery and developments.
For further information please contact:
Jill Beswick Occupational Therapy Site Lead, RIE
Mob. 07872417550 jill.beswick@nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk
We will fully support disabled candidates, and candidates with long-term conditions or who are neurodivergent by making reasonable adjustments to our recruitment policy and practices.
This post requires the post holder to have a PVG Scheme membership/ record. If the post holder is not a current PVG member for the required regulatory group (i.e. child and/or adult) then an application will need to be made to Disclosure Scotland and deemed satisfactory before they can begin in post.
NHS Scotland is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. To this end, NHS Scotland welcomes applications from all sections of society.