Senior Care of The Elderly Occupational Therapist

Integrated Care System; Redhill; On-site; GBP 37,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

An Integrated Care System is looking for a Senior Care of The Elderly Occupational Therapist to join their dynamic Elderly Care Team. This role provides an excellent opportunity to specialize in geriatric clinical practice, engage in service development, and enhance leadership skills within a supportive department known for its commitment to professional growth.

Qualifications

• Evidence of good standard of written English appropriate to the role.
• Meet essential education/qualifications required for the role.

Responsibilities

• Work within the Elderly Care Team to focus on rehab and reablement.
• Participate in multi-disciplinary working alongside OTs and Physiotherapists.

Skills

Standard of written English

Supporting statement

Essential experience

Trust values and behaviours

Education

Mandatory professional/clinical registration

Job description

Senior Care of The Elderly Occupational Therapist

We are looking for an enthusiastic, motivated and dynamic OT within our Elderly Care Team. This includes our new ICT wards that focus on rehab and reablement of our medically fit patients.

Our department is full of opportunity for an OT who is ready to expand their skills further and specialise in geriatric clinical practice. There are opportunities for specialist training within the clinical field, service development within the team and excellent opportunities to develop your leadership skills.

Our department operates an integrated therapy service, where OTs and Physiotherapists work alongside each other in each of the clinical areas. The culture of multi-disciplinary working is well established and respected within the hospital.

The Therapy department is committed to providing an environment of excellent professional growth and offers daily team huddles and regular departmental meetings; ensuring effective communication within the teams. We incorporate CPD time, regular performance reviews and service development projects. Supervision is highly regarded within the department as a method of ensuring all staff are supported in their professional development and career progression.

Main duties of the job

For further information, please see the attached trust job description and person specification for a full list of duties and responsibilities.

About us

We provide emergency and non-emergency services to the residents of East Surrey, North-East West Sussex, and South Croydon, including the major towns of Crawley, Horsham, Reigate and Redhill; a community of over 535,000 people. We provide acute and complex services and a range of outpatient, diagnostic services whilst Crawley Hospital and Horsham in West Sussex and Caterham Dene Hospital and Oxted Health Centre in Surrey provide less complex planned services. In 2019 the Care Quality Commission (CQC) rated our services as 'Outstanding' and we are one of the best performing Trusts in England:

• Winners of Health Service Journal Acute Trust of the year award 2021.
• National Patient Safety Awards winner and strive to be a beacon for safety in all that we do.
• We are rated the sixth highest trust in the South East and in the top 25% nationally for staff recommending the Trust as a place to work or receive treatment.

Job responsibilities

Once you understand the requirements outlined in the advert, please ensure your application clearly reflects where you match them including any examples you would like to highlight.

Person Specification

Criteria

• Evidence of a good standard of written English appropriate to the role
• A complete and accurate application
• Suitability for role evidenced in supporting statement
• Evidence of essential experience for role
• Meet the essential education/qualifications required for the role
• Hold the necessary mandatory professional/clinical registration
• Evidence of the Trust values and behaviours
• Evidence of any other essential criteria outlined in the person specification

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.

Care of the Elderly Occupational Therapy Team Lead

£37,338 to £44,962 a yearplus high cost allowance