Occupational Therapist

Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust; Manchester; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

The Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an Occupational Therapist to join its Community Services team. This role involves working across various community and acute settings to provide patient-centered, evidenced-based care. Candidates will engage in a rotational placement across multiple teams to enhance their skills and contribute to patient rehabilitation efforts. This is an excellent opportunity for anyone passionate about making a difference in patients' lives.

Qualifications

• Experienced or newly qualified Occupational Therapists welcome.
• Good communication skills and teamwork are essential.

Responsibilities

• Deliver evidenced-based interventions to maximize patient safety.
• Provide assessments on patients' functional performance.
• Prescribe and deliver home rehabilitation programs.

Skills

Communication

Teamwork

Patient-focused care

Education

Degree in Occupational Therapy

Job description

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North Manchester Local Care Organisation Community Services provide high quality multi-disciplinary care for the residents of North Manchester. The aim being to provide patient focused evidenced based care, working with patients and their families to achieve their goals to maximise safety and function within their own environments. We work across a variety of settings including patients own homes and a variety of community settings including a purpose built intermediate care unit, community health centres and residential care settings to achieve this.

We currently have an exciting opportunity for band 5, rotational vacancy for an Occupational Therapist. The rotation currently covers 4 community rotations as well as the potential to access 3 Acute rotations at North Manchester General Hospital.

Current Rotations Include

Community Stroke Team - Mon-Sat, 08:00-16:30

Community Neuro rehab Team - Mon-Sat, 08:00-16:30

Crumpsall Vale Intermediate care - Seven day service with shift pattern covering from 07:30 to 15:30 or 11:00 to 19:00

Home Pathway Community Team - Mon- Sun, 08:00 -20:00

Acute Hospital rotation at North Manchester General

Acute Medical - Mon - Fri, 08:00 - 16:00

Surgical - Mon - Fri, 08:00 - 16:00

Trauma orthopaedics - Mon - Fri, 08:00 - 16:00

Both Acute and Community services deliver high quality , This is an excellent opportunity for experienced or newly qualified band 5 Occupational Therapists.

To work as part of a team to deliver evidenced based interventions to maximise patients safety and functional abilities.

To provide assessments to understanding the patients functional performance and prescribe equipment/ make recommendations for support to address limitations within patients home environments including residential care settings.

To prescribe and deliver home rehabilitation programs as appropriate to patients needs

The Community teams consist of Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, Speech and Language Therapists, specialist nurses, psychologists, rehabilitation consultant and support workers (dependent on rotation). This huge bank of knowledge makes the teams the perfect learning environment for anyone with a keen interest in these fields.

The successful candidate will have good communication skills, work well as part of a team and be motivated to deliver high quality patient care. As care is delivered predominantly in patients homes for the community rotations you will need to be able to travel across the area independently to complete home visits.

The successful candidate will benefit from rotating between the three Community services and three Hospital based clinical areas. The services are dedicated to supporting the development of all of their staff and the successful candidate will benefit from the training opportunities that will be available to them.

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trusts in England with a turnover of £2.8bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 30,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.

We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.

We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Lana McEwan Job title: MCR Operational LEad Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 0161 667 3292

Rekha Chandela- Crumpsall Vale therapy lead 01616258164

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Entry level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Health Care Provider

• Industries

  Hospitals and Health Care

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