Rotational Occupational Therapist

Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust; Manchester; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading NHS Trust as an Occupational Therapist at MFT Wythenshawe Hospital, a premier facility providing an opportunity to enhance your clinical expertise. This role involves rotations in various specialties, mentorship of junior staff, and contributions to service development within a collaborative healthcare environment, ensuring the highest standards of patient care.

Qualifications

• Extensive post-graduate experience required.
• Ability to supervise and mentor junior staff.
• Must be able to conduct patient assessments and attend discharge meetings.

Responsibilities

• Complete assessments, facilitate patient discharges, and conduct home visits.
• Supervise junior team members and support service development.
• Contribute to recruitment through shortlisting and interviews.

Skills

Patient assessments

Mentoring

Clinical skills

Communication

Education

Post-graduate experience

Job description

MFT Wythenshawe Hospital are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated Occupational Therapist to join our growing team. This is an ideal opportunity for an Occupational Therapist with extensive post-graduate experience and is now looking to expand their clinical and non-clinical skills and knowledge.

The post will offer rotations through a number of our specialiality areas including; Complex Health, Cardiology/Respiratory medicine, Surgery, Plastics & Orthopeadics/Trauma, Stroke Rehabilitation and Cystic Fibrosis.

You will receive support from a clinical lead and team lead and have the opportunity to supervise and mentor junior staff members and students.

To work clinically in specialist rotational area. Completing relevant assessments, facilitating safe and timely discharges, completing access visits and home visits dependent on clinical area, attend Best Interest and discharge planning meetings, complete equipment adaptation risk assessments and order required equipment for patient discharge.

Supervise and mentor junior members of the team including B5, B4 and B3 team members, through supervision, appraisal, peer support and training opportunities.

Provide educator support for visiting students and apprentices.

Contribute to service development opportunities and participate in audits.

Support recruitment through shortlisting and interviewing.

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: Paula Brokenbrow Job title: Occupational Therapy Professional Lead Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 0161 291 5700

Saira Khan

Respiratory/Surgery Occupational Therapy Clinical Lead

0161 291 2110

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