Government , Principal Occupational Therapist - Specialist Pain Service

Government of Jersey, Principal Occupational Therapist - Specialist Pain Service

Salary: £79,133.77 to £86,974.41 a year
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time

The Government of Jersey - Health and Community Servicesshapethe future of health and wellbeing for over 100,000 Islanders and visitors. Their dedicated team of over 2,000 professionals provides essential care across 30+ diverse departments, offering a wide range of specialist services from acute and emergency care to community and preventative health initiatives.

This role also includes teaching, training and consultancy to patients, healthcare professionals, employers and wider community stakeholders, promoting the evidence base for work, occupation and social participation as key determinants of health and wellbeing and essential components of effective pain management.

As a Principal Occupational Therapist, you will:

• Work as a clinical specialist AHP, assessing, formulating and treating a highly complex clinical caseload as an autonomous occupational therapist practitioner, managing occupational therapy staff within the pain management service.
• Lead on occupation and social participation initiatives for the Interdisciplinary pain team, managing OT team and wider team in relation to these interventions.
• Provide specialist information and advice to clients, their families, Healthcare Professionals, External agencies (Social Security/Back To Work team, Jersey Employment Trust, Skills Jersey), Occupational Health Services (e.g. AXA), Employers (including Government department managers), the Third sector (e.g. Pain Support Jersey) in relation to persistent pain and up to date and evidenced based management in relation to employment and functional/social independence.
• Work in collaboration with the Consultant AHP, Pain Multidisciplinary team and other staff to ensure both an effective and high quality Occupational therapy service and PMP (Pain Management Programme) service delivery.
• Lead critical audit activity in own area and support supervised research activity; supporting strategy and policy development regarding persistent pain and employment, ensuring the integration of research evidence into vocational rehabilitation.

The closing date for this role is Monday
21st September