Specialist Occupational Therapist - Medicine rotation

Job overview

Do you have a passion for working within the Medicine specialities, using all your specialist skills? Come and be part of our friendly and progressive B6 Medicine Rotation.  Specialist areas include Healthcare of Older People, Medicine-Oncology, and Medicine-Surgery teams across both sites.

You will hold a complex caseload and be involved in the assessment, treatment and creative rehabilitation of patients with complex physical and cognitive needs. You will be part of an OT service helping patients manage their own conditions through education, symptom management and interventions where possible and enable them to be discharged from hospital.

Rotations offer B6 staff exciting opportunities to develop knowledge, skills and experience across wide-ranging specialties including but not exclusive to palliative and long term conditions, neurological and cognitive deficits, surgical and orthopaedic interventions and amputees. Medicine is the perfect speciality to develop and maintain all of your skills. You will have excellent communication skills, and a wide range of clinical skills and experience. You will have the opportunity to be involved in service development to progress patient care.

We have a strong focus on supporting your career aspirations, discussed in 1:1 supervision. We have excellent leadership development opportunities, including B6 peer supervision sessions and access to our practice development team.

Main duties of the job

Please see the attached job description and person specification for full details.  Role will include, but is not limited to:

Working as part of multidisciplinary teams on a variety of wards.

Assessing and treat patients as appropriate in the relevant areas. (i.e. dementia, Parkinsons, amputees, palliative care)

Being able to provide planned and unplanned care.

Managing complex discharges including assisting patients to manage their own long term conditions and provide rehabilitation.

Providing supervision to more junior staff (including Band 5, support and student members of staff) including appraisals, training and placements.

Deputising for the Band 7 team leader as appropriate.

Working flexibly - including working rostered weekends/bank holidays.

Working alongside the Band 7’s and other seniors in the team to develop the service in line with evidence based practice and lead on projects.

Support development of the rotation through evaluation, joint working and peer support.

Enhancing your own CPD and Career development

You will be required to work on weekend and Bank Holiday rotas.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The successful applicant will demonstrate excellent core OT skills and a willingness to learn and develop further, both clinically and professionally. You will be working as part of multidisciplinary teams who will give support and training for you to develop in this role to reach your full potential. You will demonstrate an ability to work autonomously and provide support to less experienced members of the team, including students and support workers. You will demonstrate the ability to work flexibly to support the needs of the service.

Permanent role, 37.5h per week.

Core hours are Monday - Friday, 8am-4pm.

Additional duties will include participation on weekend/bank holiday rosters, likely once every 6-8 weeks depending on service needs.

Please refer to job description and person specification for further information.