Senior Occupational Therapist - Acute Stroke

Wye Valley NHS Trust; Hereford; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in the UK is seeking a Senior Occupational Therapist to join their Acute Stroke team at Hereford County Hospital. The ideal candidate will possess a degree in Occupational Therapy and relevant NHS experience, offering an opportunity to provide patient care and collaborate within a multi-disciplinary environment. A strong emphasis on CPD and delivering high-quality patient care is essential, along with the ability to work under pressure and make timely assessments.

Qualifications

• Experience in acute or community services is essential.
• NHS or equivalent experience in inpatient areas is required.
• Experience of using/fitting adaptive equipment.

Responsibilities

• Provide hyperacute/acute stroke care for patients.
• Work alongside MDT colleagues to assess and treat stroke patients.
• Contribute to MDT decision making on patient care.

Skills

Broad and specialist knowledge of relevant patient conditions and therapy interventions

Demonstration of knowledge of core and specialist Therapy skills

Evidence of ongoing CPD in relevant area

Experience of multi-disciplinary communication, assessments and record keeping

Computer Skills including word processing and e-mail

Education

Professional Qualification to degree level or equivalent in Occupational Therapy

HCPC Registration

Job description

Senior Occupational Therapist - Acute Stroke

Due to maternity leave an exciting opportunity has become available for a Specialist Band 6 Occupational Therapist to join our inpatient Stroke team, based here at Hereford County Hospital.

The service covers both acute stroke and rehabilitation with the multi-disciplinary team consisting of Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Therapy Assistants, Nursing, CNS, HCAs . The Occupational Therapists provide holistic patient care and enable recovery. As a service we support you to continue to develop your clinical, leadership and service development skills.

Main duties of the job

The team is part of the stroke pathway which links with the community stroke team.

We provide hyperacute/acute stroke care for people presenting with symptoms of stroke, as well as providing inpatient rehabilitation prior to discharge from hospital.

You will work to best practice guidelines to assess and treat stroke patients alongside MDT colleagues.

You will be able to work at a fast pace to ensure timely assessments / interventions & contribute to MDT decision making.

The service works across 7 days and bank holidays.

About us

Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire NHS FT , the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.

Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.

We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care we'd want for our family and friends.

More than 3,500 people work for the Trust - they tell us it's a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.

We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.

Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman: "The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential."

Our values -Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time...all the time.

Job responsibilities

To view role requirements and role responsibilities in full, please view supporting documents linked to this vacancy.

Person Specification

Education & Qualifications

• Professional Qualification to degree level or equivalent in Occupational Therapy
• HCPC Registration

Skills, Knowledge & Abilities

• Broad and specialist knowledge of relevant patient conditions and therapy interventions
• Demonstration of knowledge of core and specialist Therapy skills
• Evidence of ongoing CPD in relevant area
• Experience of multi-disciplinary communication, assessments and record keeping
• Computer Skills including word processing and e-mail

Experience

• NHS or equivalent experience e.g. in inpatient areas, acute or community or community services
• Experience of using/fitting adaptive equipment

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.