Occupational Therapist - Rotational

Integrated Care System; Slough; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in Slough is seeking passionate Occupational Therapists to provide high-quality patient care. This role offers opportunities for clinical skill development, leadership training, and rotations across various specialties, while fostering a supportive team environment. Ideal candidates are recent graduates or individuals returning to practice with HCPC registration.

Qualifications

• Ability to manage own workload and determine priorities relevant to an acute physical hospital setting.
• Experience of work as an OT or placement as an OT student within the acute hospital setting.
• Willingness to rotate clinical area of work.

Responsibilities

• Provide excellent, high-quality person-centred clinical care.
• Develop personal leadership to support clinical growth.
• Contribute to a service fit for today and the future.

Skills

Organizational skills

Effective communication

Ability to work under pressure

Training and facilitation skills

Education

Degree or Diploma in OT

HCPC registration

Job description

• Passionate about top class patient care with a belief that every day matters.
• Qualifying this year, just starting your career or looking for new learning opportunities
• Ready for a new challenge
• Thinking about return to practice
• Driven to promote the value of Occupational Therapy and therefore influence the narrative of OT for future generations
• Committed to making a brighter future within the NHS

Do you want

• To learn in a fast-paced hospital setting
• Grow your leadership skills as well as your clinical skills
• Work with a diverse team with wide knowledge and experience
• Develop your knowledge and skill with support from peers, specialists, clinical educators, and experienced Occupational Therapy leaders.

We can offer:

• An acute and out patient rotation providing you with diverse experiences including Medicine, Orthopaedics, Surgery, Elderly Rehabilitation, A&E, Stroke, Hand Therapy, Community inpatient rehabilitation and Community based therapy (site dependent)
• Excellent learning opportunities with a high level of support and supervision and appraisal from senior colleagues
• Peer support from a large group of colleagues on the rotation
• A multi-professional preceptorship programme

Main duties of the job

To provide excellent, high-quality person centred clinical care that advocates for patients, strive to provide a service fit for today and the future, develop personal leadership to support clinical growth. Every rotation (6 months) brings duties specific for that speciality and team.

Our teams across all sites have a friendly, supportive atmosphere and a real team ethic. We know how to look after our staff - making sure they achieve the ideal work-life balance. As a Trust we offer a multi-professional preceptorship programme. In addition, we offer excellent training opportunities supported by a practice development lead and clinical flow lead.

About us

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.

Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.

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Job responsibilities

If you are inspired to know more about this opportunity and our team, please see the job description attached, which outlines the main duties of this post.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Degree or Diploma in OT
• HCPC registration
• Good organisational skills
• Ability to work single-handedly with individuals and groups
• Effective written and oral communication skills
• Ability to manage own workload and determine priorities, relevant to acute physical hospital setting
• Be able to work under pressure
• Training and facilitation skills
• Use of electronic pt record

Professional / Specialist / Functional Experience

• Knowledge of evidence based practice
• Understanding of professional ethics and their application in practice
• Knowledge of UK health legislation in current practice and clinical governance
• Knowledge of risk assessment
• Experience of work as an OT or placement as an OT student within the acute hospital setting
• Documented evidence of CPD
• Worked (could be as a student) in some of the following areas:- Acute Medicine, Orthopaedics, Surgery, Elderly Care, A&E, Neurology, community rehab
• Experience of research and audit

Special Requirements

• Willingness to rotate clinical area of work
• Willingness to work flexibly across a 7 day service
• Must be able to travel between sites

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

£32,602 to £39,686 a yearper annum incl HCAS