Rotational Occupational Therapist

Job overview

Our extensive rotation programme spans the three main acute hospital sites in our trust:

• William Harvey Hospital in Ashford
• Kent & Canterbury Hospital in Canterbury
• Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Hospital in Margate

All rotational staff may be expected to rotate to any of the hospital sites and particular consideration should be given to this prior to application.

Our rotations are broad and diverse due to the span of clinical specialities delivered by the Trust and will support you in gaining experience  across core and specialist areas, including:

• Critical Care
• General and specialist surgery
• Trauma
• Elective Orthopaedics
• Hand therapy
• Hyper-acute Stroke and  Acute Stroke
• Inpatient Neurorehabilitation Unit
• Acute Medicine, including medical respiratory and renal
• Frailty
• Vascular surgery and outpatients

We offer CPD support and learning opportunities across all of our specialities which includes robust stroke and neurology teaching programme and rotation specific in-service training programmes. We also encourage all staff to be research active and offer opportunities to be involved in clinical audit, service improvement and innovation.

Applications from Students in their final year of study are very welcome.

Main duties of the job

Upon joining us we will support you through your probation and your preceptorship year and will we guide you through your onward development as an Occupational Therapist. You will receive regular clinical supervision and training opportunities as well as the opportunity for band 5 peer support sessions.

The expectations we have of band 5 Occupational Therapists include:

• To assess and treat patients, providing holistic Occupational Therapy intervention as an autonomous practitioner within Scope of Practice
• Develop Occupational Therapy treatment plans, demonstrating clear clinical reasoning and goal setting.
• To be clinically curious and work within the multidisciplinary environment of the acute hospital to provide excellent intervention for patients
• To support clinical supervision of Therapy Assistants and Students where appropriate
• To be an active member of the wider therapy and AHP team and advocate for their profession where appropriate

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please scroll down to access the full Job Description and Person Specification located in ‘Documents to download’.

If you have further queries please don’t hesitate to contact the line manager using the contact details below.