Overview
This is an exciting opportunity to join the senior leadership of the North Locality Teams as an Advanced Practitioner Occupational Therapist. The post holder will be working across Peterborough, Huntingdon and Fenland Adult Locality Teams, providing leadership to the Occupational Therapy teams.
Key Responsibilities
As an Advanced Practitioner Occupational Therapist, you will play a pivotal role in delivering coordinated care to a defined caseload. You will provide clinical leadership within the OT team as well as across the wider Multi‑Disciplinary Team meetings, ensuring effective risk management, care planning, and clinical decision‑making.
- Work alongside the Service Manager to complete investigations, manage complaints and subject access requests.
- Support clinicians in managing complex cases, guide discharge planning and promote smooth clinical throughput.
- Foster strong interfaces with other teams.
- Chair large, multi‑agency meetings, lead audits and quality improvement initiatives.
- Deliver clinical supervision, conduct staff appraisals, and foster professional development within the team.
- Ensure the service is a positive learning environment for students from various disciplines.
Qualifications & Requirements
Travel and Vehicle: You will be required to travel independently around the county, meeting strict time deadlines. You must hold a full UK driving licence and have access to a vehicle. Public transport is not acceptable for this role.
Additional Information: DVLA have a number of reciprocal arrangements with overseas countries. For more details, visit the DVLA website.
About CPFT
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organization dedicated to providing high‑quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for. Our clinical teams deliver a wide range of NHS services across inpatient, primary care and community settings, including children’s, adult and older people’s mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, research and development.
Equal Opportunities
As an equal opportunities employer, we welcome applications from all sections of the community, particularly underrepresented groups including people with long‑term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.
Additional Information
All appointments for new employees to CPFT are subject to successful completion of a probationary period. CPFT reserves the right to close adverts early should sufficient applications be received.
Regrettably, CPFT does not offer sponsorship for all roles. If you apply for a post that does not attract sponsorship, your application will be withdrawn from the process.
For further information on CPFT, visit https://www.cpft.nhs.uk
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