204272 (PP) Specialist Occupational Therapist

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.

NHS Scotland is reducing their full time working week from 37.5 to 37 hours per week from 1 April 2024 but with no change in pay.  This reduction will also be applied pro rata for part time staff.  This advert and any subsequent offer/contract of employment therefore reflects the new working hours.  However, as not all service areas will be able to adopt the 37 hour working week immediately from 1 April 2024, you may be required to work up to an additional 30 minutes per week for a temporary period for which you would be paid until the service you are working in changes rosters or working patterns to accommodate the new reduced working week.  If you have any questions or concerns please contact the Recruiting Board.

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.

Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh

Band 6 Occupational Therapist

Full time Permanent Post in Surgery

We have a full time Band 6 position to work closely with Surgical post operative patients and to manage a small team.  This is a fantastic opportunity for service development and redesign particularly within the clinical areas of General Surgery and vascular. 

The Surgical Occupational Therapy team covers in-patient Vascular, Renal, The Scottish Liver Transplant Unit, General Surgery and Gynaecology.  The team focus is on quality service delivery, best practice, and future development of our service. 

The successful candidate will have:

• Clinical experience working as an Occupational therapist within an acute or rehab setting and have knowledge of typical occupational therapy intervention to surgical patients.
• Experience managing an acute caseload, including the ability to assess and plan interventions, offer advice and support to patients, their carers and other health care professionals.  
• A high standard of Occupational Therapy assessment and intervention skills.
• Ability to focus Occupational Therapy skills to deliver early assessment and acute rehabilitation to facilitate safe and timely discharges from the acute setting.  
• Ability to provide direct clinical and non-clinical supervision to staff and students. 

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.

Support, supervision and development opportunities are available through the Occupational Therapy Site Management Team, Team Lead Occupational Therapist and peer support within the team, from Occupational therapy and other colleagues.
We welcome enquiries to:

Kate Campbell, Clinical Team Lead Occupational Therapist,

,

kate.campbell@nhs.scot.

OR

Jill Beswick Occupational Therapy Site Lead, RIE

jill.beswick@nhs.scot

 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.