Occupational Therapist

Job overview

An excellent opportunity for an Occupational Therapist to join a high-quality Occupational.

Therapy service. Our service aims to help adults to continue to live at home, where your role will be to assess and manage a caseload of patients, on an inpatient ward, with varied and complex needs located across West Berkshire.

This is an exciting opportunity to work for an Outstanding CQC rated Trust committed to

workplace wellbeing and to making Berkshire Healthcare a great place to work for everyone. This is demonstrated in the latest National Staff Survey results where we achieved the highest engagement score (staff feedback on their motivation, advocacy, and involvement at work) of all Community and Mental Health Trusts.

The ideal candidate will be a registered Occupational Therapist with an interest in the

rehabilitation of older adults, have great organisational skills and enjoy team working.

Working Pattern and Service Overview. This core hours of this role will be 8am – 4pm. Currently we are not following weekend working patterns, this may change in the future.

This role can offer the opportunity to explore the Rainbow Room which has palliative beds, and there is also a specialised unit that includes eight neuro-designated beds. You may collaborate with separate multidisciplinary teams to provide high-quality care for patients with neurological conditions, gaining valuable experience in a focused and supportive clinical environment.

Main duties of the job

The post will be part of a Multi-Disciplinary Team within an inpatient setting which will offer assessment and treatment for patients in the west of Berkshire.

• To provide supervision guidance to band 3 and 4 support workers in the therapy team.
• To make recommendations to the wider MDT and to support with education of  students.
• To identify service developments, needs, contribute to the planning, development and  evaluation of the service and have responsibility for defined projects.
• To be responsible for a complex caseload using an interdisciplinary, patient focused  rehabilitative approach with support from the senior therapists.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The “must haves” for this role:

• Degree in Occupational Therapy along with HCPC registration.
• A passion for working in a rehabilitation or intermediate care setting.
• Car driver & possess full driver’s license to be able to drive in the UK.

For further information about the role, please see attached job description and person specification.

We strongly encourage you to review how you meet the criteria in the person specification and write about this point-by-point in your supporting statement for the best chance of being shortlisted.

We’re committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community. Our commitment to inclusion is reflected in our accreditations: Race Equality Matters Silver Trailblazer, Neurodiversity in Business Corporate Member, Disability Confident Leader, Carer Confident Level 2, and the Armed Forces Covenant Gold Award. Reasonable adjustments will be provided to candidates as needed.

We welcome a conversation about flexibility and any other questions you may have. Please don’t hesitate to call: Rhys Amos on [email protected] who’ll be delighted to help.

Please note, if we receive a high number of applications, we may close this role earlier than the advertised closing date, so please submit your application as soon as possible.