Senior Occupational Therapist

Job overview

Are you an enthusiastic and motivated Occupational Therapist looking to develop your career within acute medicine and frailty services?

We are seeking a dynamic Occupational Therapist to join our established Medicine/Frailty Therapy Team at Diana Princess of Wales Hospital. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to a fast-paced, patient-centred service, providing specialist Occupational Therapy input across the Emergency Department (ED), Same Day Emergency Care (SDEC), Short Stay wards, and general medical wards.

You will work as part of a supportive multidisciplinary team, undertaking comprehensive assessments, delivering timely interventions, and playing a key role in facilitating safe and effective discharge planning to optimise patient flow.

This post is offered as a development opportunity and would suit either:

• An experienced Band 6 therapist seeking a new challenge, or
• A Band 5 therapist ready to progress into a more senior role with appropriate support and supervision

We are looking for a clinician who is:

• Proactive, adaptable, and able to work autonomously
• Passionate about delivering high-quality, patient-centred care
• Committed to multidisciplinary working and service improvement

The role includes participation in a 7-day working rota, with flexible shifts between 08:00 and 20:00.

If you are looking to develop your skills within frailty and urgent care pathways and make a real impact on patient outcomes, we would love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

Perform advanced Occupational Therapy assessment of patients with diverse presentations and complex physical and psychological conditions. Use advanced clinical reasoning skills to provide a diagnosis and to develop and deliver an individualised treatment programme.

Responsible for managing own caseload and a defined area of the service, working without direct supervision.

Supervise, educate and assess students, assistants and Band 5 staff and provide specialised advice to other health care professionals in the specific clinical area.

Undertake evidence-based audit and research projects to further develop own clinical practice and development of the service area. Make recommendations on changes to practice to the clinical lead/manager. May lead the implementation of specific changes to practice or contribute to development of service protocols.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For more detailed information, please read the job description linked below.

As a Trust we are keen to offer and encourage flexible working opportunities to address health and wellbeing and work-life balance for our employees, this will have a positive impact on the care we provide.

Flexible working is part of a wider commitment to improve the quality and experience of working life and we recognise that it is a key contributor for the recruitment and retention of our employees.

We therefore support and encourage open conversations around a specific working pattern to suit your work-life balance or a multi-role career, if it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.

Local flexible working arrangements are developed in partnership between the line manager and employee in order to ensure equality of access to flexible working, as far as practicable, regardless of role, shift pattern, team or pay, based on: patient/service user and staff experience, service delivery and work-life balance of colleagues.

We are committed to creating and maintaining a fair and supportive working environment and culture, where contributions are fully recognised and valued by all and staff feel empowered to carry out their duties to the best of their abilities. As employers we are committed to promoting and protecting the physical and mental health and well-being of all our staff. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution, supports us to be an Employer of Choice and ultimately enables our employees to support the effective care of our patients.

We strongly value the different perspectives and ideas a diverse workforce brings to deliver better outcomes for our patients.  We welcome applications irrespective of people’s age, disability, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.

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