Advanced Clinical Specialist Occupational Therapist - Elderly Frailty

Are you an experienced Occupational Therapist ready to take the next step into a highly specialist leadership role?

Do you want to make a meaningful impact on frailty care while enjoying life on the stunning North Yorkshire coastline?

If you’re passionate about advancing frailty care and want to bring your expertise to a role where you can truly make a difference, we would love to hear from you!

We are seeking an Advanced Clinical Specialist Occupational Therapist to continue to lead and develop our frailty pathway within the East Coast inpatient services at Scarborough Hospital. This is a pivotal role for a clinician who can provide highly specialist assessment, treatment, and leadership for patients with complex physical, cognitive, psychological, behavioural, and social needs.

You will act as the Lead Specialist Clinician for Frailty shaping service development and supporting the wider occupational therapy workforce to deliver evidence‑based care. This includes providing expert advice, supervision and training to colleagues and students, as well as contributing to research, audit, and service evaluation.

This is an exciting opportunity to influence clinical standards, champion innovation, and embed high‑quality occupational therapy practice across the frailty pathway.

We are looking for someone who has some specialist experience in frailty or a related clinical area and can demonstrate advanced clinical reasoning and the ability to manage complex presentations.

This is an opportunity to develop confidence in leading change, supporting others, and promoting best practice.

• Managing a highly complex clinical caseload using advanced clinical reasoning and occupation‑focused assessment.
• Leading specialist practice in frailty, ensuring safe, effective, and evidence‑based care.
• Acting as a resource for highly specialist advice across the Trust.
• Providing leadership, supervision, and mentorship to staff and students.

Driving service development, innovation, and quality improvement initiatives.

Contributing to research, audit, and evaluation activities.

Communicating complex and sensitive information with clarity, empathy, and professionalism.

Collaborating effectively within multidisciplinary teams and across organisational boundaries

Please ensure you have approval from your current line manager before applying for this secondment post.

Why Join Us on the East Coast?

Benefits

Working at Scarborough Hospital means being part of a supportive, forward‑thinking team—while enjoying the unique lifestyle benefits of the North Yorkshire coast. You’ll have access to:

• Beautiful beaches, coastal walks, and the North York Moors on your doorstep
• A friendly, welcoming community
• Affordable living compared to major cities
• A chance to enjoy a healthier work–life balance in a scenic environment
  
  

Trust Information Pack

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Our benefits

We offer a range of benefits to support our staff including:

• Access to the NHS Pension Scheme, providing generous benefits upon retirement, as well as a lump sum and pension for dependants
• 27 days holiday rising to 33 days (depending on NHS Trust service)
• A variety of different types of paid and unpaid leave covering emergency and planned leave
• Confidential advice and support on personal, work, family and relationship issues, 24/7, from our Employee Assistance Programme
• NHS Car Lease scheme and Cycle to Work scheme
• An extensive range of learning and development opportunities
• Discounts on restaurants, getaways, shopping, motoring, cinema and finance from a range of providers
  
  

For further information on the fantastic range of benefits we offer please visit the Trust's dedicated Staff Benefits pages.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Rachel Daniel Job title: Senior AHP Manager Email address: rachel.daniel@nhs.net Telephone number: 07818 538975