Occupational Therapist

Job overview

We are looking to welcome Band 5 applications from new graduates or  Occupational Therapists looking to return to practice, to join our friendly, innovative and dynamic Therapy Team.

You will be working collaboratively with our Multidisciplinary Colleagues across the fast-paced environments of ED, through to acute medical, orthopaedic wards. We offer varied and specialist clinical environments for you to learn, grow and develop as a strong Occupational Therapist.

We offer the opportunity to gain clinical development in a variety of areas:

• Accident and emergency, urgent care wards
• Acute medicine
• Orthopaedics - trauma, day case, elective
• Respiratory wards

We offer an established preceptorship programme for new graduates, a Band 5 in-service training programme and weekly speciality teaching sessions and mentorship to support your development.

Main duties of the job

• To perform Occupational Therapy assessment of patients with diverse presentations
• To provide a clinical diagnosis and develop and deliver an individualised treatment programme.
• To plan and prioritise own Patient caseload, working with direct support of a senior member of staff. Supervision takes the form of regular formal training and clinical reasoning sessions and peer review.
• To undertake all aspects of clinical duties as an autonomous practitioner.
• Assist in audit and/or research projects to further own and team’s clinical practice within each rotation.
• To provide high quality, evidence-based care across the seven-day service as the service requires.
• To be able to travel between venues for access visits.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

All band 5 posts offer the opportunity to acquire specialist skills across the clinical settings, these posts are ideal in not just developing your clinical skills but developing key leadership roles in the service. The posts are full-time; however staff work across 7 days.

Return to Practice:

Occupational Therapists looking to return to practice - we have an exciting initiative to be able to provide a return to practice Band 5 Occupational Therapy post for Occupational Therapists who have had relevant previous experience in an acute setting and are ready to begin their return to practice. We will support you with experience working in different clinical settings and competencies to enable you to successfully complete your return to practice and re-registration with HCPC. You will initially be paid as a pre-registration Band 4 for 6 months until your return to practice process is completed and you have successfully gained your HCPC registration, when you will be re-graded as a Band 5 within the team.

For more information about this role and person specification, please refer to attached Job Description