Highly 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...

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.

We are looking to recruit a highly specialist occupational therapist. This is a new post to develop and test occupational therapy within Primary Care in Angus and builds on the success of work already happening in other Scottish Board areas. The focus of the work is for the occupational therapist to assess and treat people with frailty, enabling people to remain in work and to support those with low level mental health needs. Experience in self-management is essential. You should be an experienced occupational therapist with the confidence to manage a complex and varied clinical caseload with ability and experience of supporting and educating others. You should have skills in leading and being involved quality improvement. If you have excellent collaborative and leadership skills, you could become a great asset to our service. The post will be based within Academy Medical Centre, Forfar, Angus.


The Occupational Therapy Service in Angus offers comprehensive support, supervision and is committed to Continued Professional Development and actively uses Turas.


You should possess a BSc/Dip COT in Occupational Therapy, have extensive post graduate experience, be registered with HCPC and must produce evidence of continuing personal development. A requirement of this post is a willingness to travel across the locality.


Informal enquiries to: Lynne Houston, Occupational Therapy Clinical Lead, Mobile 07966232944 Email:   lynne.houston@nhs.scot


Internal Applicants - Written approval must be sought from your line manager prior to applying for this secondment.  You will be required to bring this if shortlisted for interview. 


Hours of work are:  37  - Fixed Term/Secondment for 1 Year (Part-time hours may be considered)


Short-listed applicants will be contacted by email. Please check your emails regularly, including your junk/spam folder.


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