Specialist Occupational Therapist – Tertiary Eating Disorder Service

Job Description

About the Organisation

Here at NHS Lanarkshire, we put the patient at the heart of everything we do. Each colleague within the organisation plays a key role in how we deliver our healthcare services.

We proudly serve a population of 655,000 across rural and urban communities in both North and South Lanarkshire. NHS Lanarkshire is comprised of Acute Services (which currently provide hospital based services over 3 main sites), Corporate & Property & Support Services, North and South Lanarkshire Health and Social Care Partnerships which provide integrated primary healthcare and social care services to local communities and surrounding areas.

The Role

This post is to manage your own specialist caseload, using evidence-based practice and person-centred principles to assess, plan, implement and evaluate interventions in both hospital and community settings. You will provide day to day supervision for occupational therapy staff, support staff and students. You will also provide specialist clinical intervention and consultation to occupational therapy staff and other disciplines.

Duties may vary depending on the care group, clinical specialty or assigned area of work.

The working pattern for this role is Monday to Friday.

Key responsibilities

In this key role, you will:

• Deliver occupational therapy services across the population including acute, community and primary care services.
• Lead and supervise occupational therapy staff, support staff and students.
• Provide specialist clinical intervention and consultation to occupational therapy staff and other disciplines.
• Plan, implement and evaluate interventions in both hospital and community settings.
• Utilise a range of equipment and machinery specific to the clinical area.

What you’ll bring

• Direct exposure to unpleasant smells, body fluids, waste or hospital acquired infections.
• Risk of direct exposure to abusive and aggressive behaviour from patients, relatives and carers.
• Requirement to drive across Lanarkshire.
• Utilise a range of equipment and machinery in hospital and community environments which is specific to the clinical area and may vary depending on the needs of the service.

A driving licence is required; this must be a full UK/EU/EEA licence.

What we offer

• Annual Leave – 35 days including public holidays.
• Generous NHS pension scheme.
• Annual incremental salary progression.
• Paid sick leave increasing with length of service.
• NHS discounts and more.

NHS Lanarkshire is dedicated to building a diverse workforce where everyone can thrive, develop, and succeed based on their skills, knowledge, and talent – regardless of race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, or care experience or any other dimension that can be used to differentiate people from one another.

Care experienced applicants include those who have lived with foster parents, kinship carers, or in residential/secure children’s settings.