LR256607 Specialist Occupational Therapist

Specialist Occupational Therapist (Band 6)

Seafield Hospital, Buckie - Moray H&SCP

28.8 hours per week

Permanent

Seafield Hospital is a busy Community Hospital serving patients from the Buckie locality and across Moray and needs a suitably qualified Band 6 Specialist Occupational Therapist

This successful applicant, as a member of the Moray Community Hospitals Occupational Therapy Team, will provide an inpatient service to patients in Seafield Hospital’s 22 beds working closely with the multi-disciplinary/multi-agency teams. The successful applicant will assess and treat patients with a variety of conditions and complexity to facilitate their safe and timely discharge home and also provide a community rehabilitation service to the Buckie and Cullen locality.

The post holder will be able to demonstrate post-graduate training and experiential knowledge and be willing to undertake further training. You will be clinically supervised by a Band 7 Occupational Therapist and in turn supervise Band 3 Generic Therapy Support Workers and provide support for Occupational Therapy staff across the Moray localities.

The Moray Occupational Therapy Team is a well-established team with robust supervision, mentoring, quality review and audit frameworks and we strive to provide an excellent service to our patients. We also have close working relationships with our AHP and multidisciplinary colleagues in Moray and across NHS Grampian and national links.

Moray is an extraordinarily beautiful place to live and work.

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If you would like to find out more about this exciting opportunity please contact:

Lisa Ralph, Team Lead Occupational Therapist, lisa.ralph@nhs.scot or Katie Parry, Deputy Lead Occupational Therapist katie.parry@nhs.scot or Dawn Duncan, Occupational Therapy Manager, Moray dawn.duncan@nhs.sco

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.

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NHS Grampian forms one of the fourteen regional health boards of NHS Scotland and is responsible for providing health and social care services to a population of over 500,000 people living in Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire and Moray.

As a board we strive to ensure the environment is conducive to nurturing a positive culture, supported and delivered through our NHS and Social Care values.

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