Occupational Therapist (Rotational)- Therapy Service

East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust; Stevenage; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust is seeking an Occupational Therapist for a rotational post covering acute trust rotations at The Lister Hospital, Stevenage. The role includes work in Stroke rehabilitation, Acute Assessment, General Surgery, Amputees, Orthopaedics, General Medicine and Elderly care.

The successful applicant will join a proactive OT and PT service, supported by senior staff and opportunities to contribute to service and clinical development.

Qualifications

• Sound clinical reasoning and communication skills.
• Ability to work within a team and on your own initiative.
• Experience in occupational therapy and willingness to be rotated across services.

Responsibilities

• Assess and treat own caseload autonomously with daily support from a senior clinician.
• Communicate with medical, nursing, social care staff, patients and carers involved in care.
• Undertake comprehensive assessments of Occupational Performance including self-care, productivity and leisure.
• Carry out home visits to assess functioning in the patient’s environment and plan further care.

Skills

Clinical reasoning

Communication skills

Teamwork

Assessment

Education

HCPC registered

Job description

We are recruiting for an Occupational Therapist (Rotational) who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.

This post covers Acute Trust rotations at the Lister Hospital, Stevenage and includes Stroke rehabilitation, Acute Assessment unit, General Surgery and Amputees, Orthopaedics, General Medicine and Elderly care.

Within the rotations, we provide strong and established professional leadership, excellent team support and opportunities to contribute to service and clinical development. The rotations are 4.5 months in length to provide the opportunity for you to gain valuable skills in a variety of clinical areas.

You will be joining a proactive, integrated Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy service with excellent peer and senior support. We are looking for someone with sound clinical reasoning and communication skills, as well as an ability to work within a team and to use your initiative.

We would welcome applications from experienced occupational therapists and those who are newly qualified/qualifying.

At the heart of everything we do are our core values: Include, Respect, and Improve. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.

Main duties of the job

Within this role you will be required to assess and treat own caseload of patients and maintain own records as an autonomous practitioner with access to a senior member of staff for advice and support on a daily basis.

Communicating with relevant medical and nursing staff, social workers, and other health care professionals, patients, relatives, and carers who may be in direct contact with regards to patient care.

You will undertake comprehensive and where applicable, standardised assessments of patients looking at all Occupational Performance including self-maintenance, productivity and leisure for patients.

Undertaking assessment and treatment of patients with diverse and complex presentations/multi-pathologies with supervision.

As well as working in the hospital setting, you will also carry out accompanied home visits or unaccompanied access home visits, to assess the patient/client's functioning in their own environment and communicate with relatives and carers regarding further care and/or treatment at home.

At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general & specialist services we provide & our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible & innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

We run the following hospitals:

• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII)
• Welwyn Garden City
• Hertford County, Hertford
• Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC)
• Northwood

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation; our staff & patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. Employees are entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns & we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made & considered formally, & will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.