Acute Services Occupational Therapist

Job overview

Are you an Occupational Therapist who is passionate about providing high quality patient care? Are you newly qualified or looking to extend your experience?

If the answer is yes, then you are the person we are looking for to come & join the over 70 members of staff currently working within the Occupational Therapy Service at NNUH who share your passion.

Due to career progression, we are looking for enthusiastic & motivated Occupational Therapists to join our established Band 5 Rotation scheme and help us ensure that we meet the Trust’s vision to provide the best care for every patient. We are able to offer a broad range of experience across many clinical areas including :

• Neurosciences
• Respiratory
• Cardiology
• Trauma & Orthopaedics
• AMU/ Short Stay Medicine
• Hand Therapy
• Oncology
• Rheumatology
• Paediatrics
• Home First
• Medicine
• Surgery

We will support you to develop current/ new skills with access to in-service training and professional development. You will receive supervision and annual appraisal; have access to peer support and encouragement to take an active role within your own continuing professional development. If you are newly qualified our OT preceptorship team will work with you as an individual across rotations to help you to consolidate your career progression.

If you are enthusiastic, forward thinking and wish to deliver high quality patient care, then we would love to welcome you into our team.

Main duties of the job

As post holder, you will:

• Be responsible for assessing and treating your own designated caseload of patients and maintaining their records as an autonomous practitioner
• Carry out day to day informal supervision of unqualified staff
• Assess risks relating to the discharge process to ensure a safe and timely discharge of patients to the most appropriate setting
• Provide advice and information to patients/ carers including instruction and training regarding use of equipment issued

You will have :

• Exposure to and the opportunity to learn to manage a diverse caseload across various specialisms, with support and training to develop and prepare for moving into more specialist senior roles
• Access to regular and culturally embedded supervision with more experienced members of the therapy team, as well as very close working and learning links with the MDT and other professionals within and without the Trust.

The opportunity to work across both inpatient and outpatient areas and outreaching into the community as part of a wide and varied rotation.

If you would like to find out more about this or other opportunities within the Occupational Therapy service then please get in touch - contact Emma Dix, AHP Therapy Lead Occupational Therapist on 01603 646073, emma.dix2@nnuh.nhs.uk

Interview date: to be confirmed

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To maintain a high standard of professional practice, working within the Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct of the Royal College of Occupational Therapists.
• To be professionally and legally responsible for all aspects of your own work, including accountability for the management of patients in your care as an autonomous practitioner.
• To be aware of evidence as a base for practice, participate in service/multidisciplinary audit and research within the clinical area and use knowledge gained to achieve optimum outcomes for Occupational Therapy.
• To prioritise own designated caseload.
• To independently carry out assessment and appropriate intervention for patients, incorporating personal, psychological and spiritual needs in relation to self-care, leisure and productivity.

Please refer to the Job Description for the full specification of responsibilities and requirements for this post.

Please note due to high volume of applications for some posts, this post may close before the displayed closing date. We recommend that you apply for this role asap.

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.