Senior Occupational Therapist- Mental Health Services for Older People

As a valued member of our specialist multidisciplinary inpatient team, you will provide evidence-based occupational therapy interventions for older adults experiencing complex mental health conditions. You will assess functional ability, manage risk, support recovery-focused goals, and work closely with families and community services to maximise independence and ensure safe and timely discharge from hospital.

You will have opportunities to influence and shape service delivery through quality improvement and service development initiatives, helping to enhance patient experience and clinical effectiveness.

As a senior member of the team, you will provide supervision, support and mentorship to junior colleagues, students and support staff, and will deputise for the Team Lead when required.

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced Occupational Therapist who is passionate about older people's mental health and is looking to further develop their clinical, leadership and service improvement skills within a supportive and progressive team.

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality - opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn't, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read 'applicant guidance notes' before submitting your application.

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