Specialist Occupational Therapist

To work as an Occupational Therapist within the Frailty Virtual Ward Team. To provide a high standard of occupational therapy assessment, intervention, treatment and discharge planning to complex and highly complex patients within specialist area evidencing high level problem solving, reasoning skills and independence of judgement. To be an active member of the multi-disciplinary virtual ward team and provide day to day supervision of junior and support staff and students working in the specialist area. The specialist practitioner is clinically in charge for the Occupational Therapy Service within the area of practice providing highly specialist knowledge within the Trust and externally to therapists and other health care professionals from secondary and primary care. To maintain clinical records. To be responsible for own continued professional development.