Senior Rotational Occupational Therapist

Job overview

Senior Rotational Occupational Therapist

Care Group: Diagnostic and Therapies

Band: 6

Salary: £38,682 - £46,580 per annum/pro rata

We are recruiting for a Senior Occupational Therapist who shares our ambition and vision to deliver the Best of Care by the Best People and has the drive to take us forward, by ensuring that the Trust continues to be the first choice for patients and our staff.

**Please note that a Developmental Programme Band 5 to Band 6 OT might be considered. If you are to be successful for the Developmental programme you will be employed as a Band 5 OT, and once all of your competencies have been achieved you will be promoted to a Band 6 Senior Rotational Occupational Therapist.**

Main duties of the job

The successful post holder will work rotationally in the following areas:

Cardiorespiratory, Respiratory Support Unit, Older Persons wards, Frailty Assessment wards and Frailty SDEC, Trauma and Orthopaedics, Surgical specialities wards, and Emergency Department and Front Door wards.

As a Senior Occupational Therapist, you will need to be motivated and enthusiastic  with a broad range of acute hospital experience, demonstrable leadership skills with the ability to actively contribute to service development.

The Senior Occupational Therapist will work within a fully integrated therapy team, offering holistic assessments to our patients.

In addition, you will get an opportunity to develop your managerial and supervisory skills providing supervision to rotational therapists, therapy assistants and students. Continuing professional development is encouraged and supported through the appraisal system.

Our values are Bold, Every Person Counts, Sharing and Open and Together. It is important that you understand and to refer to our values when completing your application and always reflect our values throughout your employment with the Trust.

We are committed to endorsing diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion; our policies / procedures ensure that all applicants are treated fairly at every stage of the recruitment process.

To contribute to our exciting future and become part of our team, apply today.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To be professionally and legally accountable for all aspects of own work including responsibility of an allocated patient case/work load

To undertake assessment, standardised and non-standardised, of patients including those with diverse and complex presentations and conditions: using clinical reasoning skills and assessment techniques to formulate individualised treatment plans and programmes

To deliver individualised occupational therapy intervention and treatment programmes using a broad range of occupational therapy skills in individual and group settings

To continually reassess patient progress, adapting treatment plans accordingly, and developing discharge plans

To refer patients appropriately to other health and social care services according to protocol providing timely and detailed information to ensure good continuity of care

To communicate effectively with patients and carers and other health care professionals using a wide range of verbal and non-verbal communication tools to share assessment findings, agree treatment plans, progress rehabilitation, give advice, teaching etc. This will include patients with communication and comprehension difficulties and those who may be unable to accept diagnosis/prognosis.