Senior Occupational Therapist – Band 6

HCRG Care Group; Warminster; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

NHS Pension

AfC Salary

My Reward Hub discounts

Wellbeing support

eLearning

Career development

Innovation funding

CPD opportunities

Job summary

HCRG Care Group in Warminster is seeking a Band 6 Occupational Therapist to join the Longleat ward inpatient team at Warminster Community Hospital. You will deliver holistic, patient-centred care with evidence-based practice in a busy community hospital setting.

We value innovation, professional development and a supportive MDT approach, with opportunities for CPD, eLearning and leadership development within an organisation committed to high clinical standards.

Qualifications

• HCPC Registered

Responsibilities

• Deliver high quality patient rehabilitation and discharge planning for complex patients.
• Prioritise and organise caseload; support B5 OT staff, students and therapy assistants.
• Communicate effectively; lead on complex discharges.
• Develop innovative service development and keep patient at the centre of care.
• Please see the attached job description for a full list of job responsibilities.

Skills

Complex case management

Initiative

Delegation

Electronic records

Driving licence

Discharge planning

Staff supervision

Auditing / evaluations

MDT collaboration

Education

HCPC Registered

Professional Qualification in Occupational Therapy

Evidence of ongoing education

2+ years postgraduate OT experience

MSK / Community / Acute work-based training

Fieldwork supervisors or mentorship course

Leadership Training

Tools

Daily living equipment prescription

Job description

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As a Senior Occupational Therapist Band 6within our Longleat Ward - Warminster Community Hospital, we value you and your contributions, offering a range of benefits to support your professional growth and personal wellbeing:

• Band 6 AfC Salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
• Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
• An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
• The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission

Job Introduction

Are you an innovative, enthusiastic, organised and experienced Occupational Therapist with at least 18 months post registration experience and a strong interest in rehabilitation?

Would you like to work in a friendly and supportive inpatient team within a community hospital?

We are currently looking for a Band 6 Occupational Therapist, to join our inpatient therapy team on Longleat ward at Warminster community Hospital in Wiltshire. This role offers an excellent opportunity to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team delivering holistic, patient centred and evidence-based care.

HCRG Care Group is a forward thinking, innovative service provider delivering treatment and care for a wide-ranging population across a mixture of rural and suburban settings. The service provides support to three acute trusts and is constantly developing new services to provide the best level of care to the people of Wiltshire.

Longleat ward is a 25 bed IP ward with a multi-disciplinary approach to the patient pathway. Patients are admitted to our ward from our 3 acutes for ongoing care. Conditions can be varied and complex and include orthopaedics, neurological, musculoskeletal, frailty, dementia and end of life.

We are happy to answer any questions that you may have.

Main Responsibilities

To be successful in the post you must demonstrate a keen interest in care of the older person and be able to deliver high quality patient rehabilitation and discharge planning of complex patients within a community hospital ward environment using evidence-based practice. You must be able to prioritise and organise your caseload, support in the development of B5 OT staff, students and be experienced in supporting and delegating to therapy assistants .

You will be an excellent communicator, enthusiastic, flexible, work autonomously using strong clinical assessment and reasoning skills as well as supporting and leading on complex discharges .

You will demonstrate a desire to work creatively to bring about innovative service development and commit to putting the patient at the centre of your work .

Please see the attached job description for a full list of job responsibilities.

The Ideal Candidate

• HCPC Registered
• Professional Qualification in Occupational Therapy
• Evidence of ongoing education
• Minimum of 2 years postgraduate experience as an Occupational Therapist
• Experience of working in a range of clinical specialties with particular focus on complex discharge planning
• Prescription of daily living equipment
• Broad range of occupational therapy skills gained through post-registration experience
• Ability to manage complex situations
• Ability to use initiative
• Fieldwork supervisors or mentorship course
• MSK / Community / Acute work-based training
• Leadership Training
• Participating in clinical and/or operational audits /evaluations
• Experience working as part of a multi-disciplinary team in hospital and community settings
• Supervision of other staff
• Ability to delegate clinical work
• Use of electronic records
• Access to a vehicle that can be used for business purposes and hold a full and valid driving licence.

About the Company

We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency, and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

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As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.

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