Clinical Specialist Occupational Therapist

Transformationunitgm; Aylesbury; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 47,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading healthcare provider as a Clinical Specialist Occupational Therapist in Aylesbury. You will work within an interdisciplinary team, providing assessments and treatment for patients with chronic pain and fatigue. The role offers opportunities for professional development and a supportive work environment, with a focus on compassionate care and diversity.

Benefits

Generous annual leave entitlement

Pension scheme

NHS discount schemes

Health and wellbeing services

Qualifications

• Experience working with multi-disciplinary teams and therapeutic group work.
• Experience assisting people in returning to work/study.

Responsibilities

• Lead planning and delivery of Occupational Therapy service for chronic pain patients.
• Provide assessments and treatments based on cognitive behavioural therapy.

Skills

Communication

Team Working

Understanding Chronic Pain

Education

Diploma or BSc degree in Occupational Therapy

Registered with Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)

Basic cognitive behavioural therapy training

Post-graduate training in pain or fatigue management

Job description

Clinical Specialist Occupational Therapist

NHS AfC: Band 7

Be part of our BHT family

Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust (BHT) is an integrated provider of acute hospital and community services for people living in Buckinghamshire and the surrounding area.

We care for over half a million patients every year:

• provide specialist spinal services at our world renownedNational Spinal Injuries Centre at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, the birthplace of the Paralympics
• nationally recognised for urology and skin cancer services
• regional specialist centre for burns, plastic surgery, dermatology, stroke and cardiac services
• deliver community services in health centres, schools, patients’ own homes, community hospitals and community hubs.

More than 6,500 people from different nations, cultures and backgrounds work for us.

We would be happy to discuss possible flexible working options. We strive to be a family friendly, inclusive employer.

If you require any assistance in making this application, please contact [e-mail] or phone [phone].

We pride ourselves in being a great place to work – and invite you to join our BHT family.

Job overview

Would you like to work with an excellent interdisciplinary chronic pain and fatigue management service? An opportunity has arisen for an occupational therapist to join our dedicated and well-established interdisciplinary service.

The service works with people with a wide range of chronic pain conditions and ME/CFS. The post holder will be involved in interdisciplinary assessments and chronic pain and fatiguemanagement group and individual programmes. The service is delivered from sites in Aylesbury and Amersham. The therapist for this role will be based in Aylesbury. Good communication and team working skills are essential but you do not have to have had prior experience of chronic pain and fatigue management.

You will be provided with regular clinical and managerial supervision

and access to CPD.

Main duties of the job

To take the lead role in planning, co-ordinating and delivering the specialist Occupational Therapy service provided to chronic pain and chronic fatigue patients as part of the interdisciplinary Chronic Pain and Fatigue Management Service.

To provide specialist Occupational Therapy assessment and treatment to a wide range of patients with complex problems resulting from chronic pain conditionsand ME/CFS.

To be autonomous as an occupational therapist practitioner, whilst working with senior therapists from other disciplines within the team, to deliver both group treatment and individual programmes of treatment for these patients based on cognitive behavioural therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and motivational techniques.

What does Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust offer you?

As part of our BHT family, you’ll benefit from learning and development opportunities to support your career progression.

Alongside NHS benefits of generous annual leave entitlement and pension scheme, you'll have access to NHS discount schemes.

We provide a range of health and wellbeing services to promote a healthy, happy workforce.

What do we stand for?

Our vision is to provide outstanding care, support healthy communities and be a great place to work.

Our mission is to provide personal and compassionate care every time.

We are working hard to increase diversity at all levels within the trust. We believe a diverse workforce can have a positive effect on both staff wellbeing and patient outcomes.

We welcome applications from black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates, LGBTQ+ candidates, candidates with disabilities and care-experienced candidates.

We are proud to achieve the Gold award for the Armed Forces Covenant and support applications from the Armed Forces Community. Please contact [e-mail] (our Armed Forces Covenant Lead) if you would like guidance or assistance with your application.

We make employment decisions by matching our service needs with the skills and experience of candidates, regardless of age, disability, gender, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, or sexual orientation.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For a comprehensive list of responsibilities and duties, please kindly refer to the Job Description and Person Specification by downloading the JD and PS attachment in the advert.

If you are an internal applicant there is the option for secondment, all applicants must have the endorsement/support of their line manager prior to application.

If you have a disability that makes submitting this online application difficult and would like assistance, please contact us on [e-mail] quoting the vacancy reference number.

Person specification

EDUCATION, QUALIFICATIONS & TRAINING

• Diploma or BSc degree in Occupational Therapy
• Registered with Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)
• Basic cognitive behavioural therapy training
• Post-graduate training in pain or fatigue management
• Member of The British Pain Society PMP SIG or The British Association of Clinicians in ME/CFS (BACME).

EXPERIENCE

• experience including experience working with people, multi-disciplinary team working and therapeutic group work.
• Experience of assisting people in returning to or starting work/study

SKILLS, ABILITIES & KNOWLEDGE

• High level of understanding of the complex interaction between physical, functional and psychological factors that contribute to the development and maintenance of chronic pain and ME/CFS.
• To have a good knowledge of group processes and dynamics and of working with therapeutic groups.

PPE requirements:Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust requires all colleagues to wear appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) in accordance with our infection prevention and control procedures.

COVID-19 and Flu vaccinations remain the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course our patients from the viruses when working in our healthcare settings. We encourage our staff to be vaccinated when recommended.

If you are successfulat interview, we will require you to complete a Covid-19 risk assessment document.

Application deadline: This post will close on the closing date stated at midnight. If we receive a large number of applications or there is a change in circumstance, we may be required to close a job before to the closing date.

Contacting you: We will contact candidates through the email address supplied on their application form. Please make sure you check this regularly.

Application information: If you are offered a job, information will be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.

Shortlisting: The monitoring and safeguarding sections are not made visible to the shortlisting panel. The safeguarding section may be made visible to the interview panel, dependent on the role being recruited into.

Travel expenses: It is Trust policy that travel expenses for interview will not be reimbursed.

Smoking: All Trust sites are NO SMOKING. Smoking in all areas of the buildings and premises is prohibited.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Name Dr Teresa Fediw Job title Principal Clinical Psychologist/Service Lead Email address [e-mail] Telephone number 01296 831320