Senior Rotational Occupational Therapist

Medway NHS Foundation Trust; Gillingham; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 47,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in Gillingham is seeking a Senior Rotational Occupational Therapist. The successful candidate will manage a diverse caseload in an acute environment, ensuring high-quality patient care. This role includes opportunities for professional development and leadership in therapy teams. Applicants should possess a relevant occupational therapy degree and have comprehensive clinical experience. Flexibility in work arrangements is promoted, and the role supports both full-time and part-time options.

Benefits

Flexible working opportunities

Continuing professional development support

Qualifications

• Broad range of experience in acute environments.
• Experience in prioritizing work and managing a caseload.
• Knowledge of assessing and treating patients with diverse conditions.

Responsibilities

• Be accountable for all aspects of workload, managing cases effectively.
• Deliver tailored occupational therapy treatment in both individual and group settings.
• Adapt treatment plans based on continuous patient assessment and progress.
• Communicate effectively with patients and healthcare professionals.

Skills

Communication with patients

Basic auditing skills

Education

Diploma/degree in occupational therapy

Current Health Professions Council registration

Membership of the College of Occupational Therapy

Job description

Senior Rotational Occupational Therapist

Senior Rotational Occupational Therapist

Care Group: Diagnostic and Therapies

Band: 6

We are recruiting for a Senior Occupational Therapist who shares our ambition and vision to deliver theBest of Care by the Best Peopleand has the drive to take us forward, by ensuring that the Trust continues to be the first choice for patients and our staff.

**Please note that a Developmental Programme Band 5 to Band 6 OT might be considered. If you are to be successful for the Developmental programme you will be employed as a Band 5 OT, and once all of your competencies have been achieved you will be promoted to a Band 6 Senior Rotational Occupational Therapist.**

Main duties of the job

The successful post holder will work rotationally in the following areas:

Cardiorespiratory, Respiratory Support Unit, Older Persons wards, Frailty Assessment wards and Frailty SDEC, Trauma and Orthopaedics, Surgical specialities wards, and Emergency Department and Front Door wards.

As a Senior Occupational Therapist, you will need to be motivated and enthusiastic with a broad range of acute hospital experience, demonstrable leadership skills with the ability to actively contribute to service development.

The Senior Occupational Therapist will work within a fully integrated therapy team, offering holistic assessments to our patients.

In addition, you will get an opportunity to develop your managerial and supervisory skills providing supervision to rotational therapists, therapy assistants and students. Continuing professional development is encouraged and supported through the appraisal system.

Our values are Bold, Every Person Counts, Sharing and Open and Together. It is important that you understand and to refer to our values when completing your application and always reflect our values throughout your employment with the Trust.

We are committed to endorsing diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion; our policies / procedures ensure that all applicants are treated fairly at every stage of the recruitment process.

To contribute to our exciting future and become part of our team, apply today.

About us

Do you have the ambition and vision to deliver our mission of theBest of Care by the Best of People providing excellent care, every time?

Here at Medway, we pride ourselves on working together as one to ensure that our shared vision is achieved for our patients.

As a key partner in the healthcare of our local population, we are keen to deliver this as an outcome of our Trust-wide strategy - Patient First. Using an Operational Excellence approach to align our priorities and operational management structures, we are just over a year and half into our Patient First deployment. We are looking for creative, skilled people to join our Transformation Team and further support us on this journey.

Our culture and values define us here at Medway NHS Foundation Trust and are the heartbeat of who we are as an organisation.

Our BEST values underpin Patient First and are at the core of the care we give to our patients, the support we offer to our staff and our overall leadership approach:

B - Bold

E - Every person counts

S - Sharing and open

T - Together

Our Trust is a great choice for people who want to develop their career in an ambitious and dynamic environment; our employees are able to choose the coverage and supplemental benefits that best fit their needs and those of their families. This includes the promotion of flexible working opportunities across the Trust.

Job responsibilities

To be professionally and legally accountable for all aspects of own work including responsibility of an allocated patient case/work load

To undertake assessment, standardised and non-standardised, of patients including those with diverse and complex presentations and conditions: using clinical reasoning skills and assessment techniques to formulate individualised treatment plans and programmes

To deliver individualised occupational therapy intervention and treatment programmes using a broad range of occupational therapy skills in individual and group settings

To continually reassess patient progress, adapting treatment plans accordingly, and developing discharge plans

To refer patients appropriately to other health and social care services according to protocol providing timely and detailed information to ensure good continuity of care

To communicate effectively with patients and carers and other health care professionals using a wide range of verbal and non-verbal communication tools to share assessment findings, agree treatment plans, progress rehabilitation, give advice, teaching etc. This will include patients with communication and comprehension difficulties and those who may beunable to accept diagnosis/prognosis.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Diploma/degree in occupational therapy
• Current Health Professions Council registration
• Membership of the College of Occupational Therapy

Experience

• Broad range of experience and junior level including acute environments
• Experience of responding to demand / prioritising work / managing a caseload
• Supervision of Occupational Therapy students / junior staff

Knowledge

• Good knowledge of basis assessment and treatment of patients with a wide range of conditions
• Understanding of the balance of professional development needs with service needs
• Understanding of Clinical Governance and managing risk in your own work

Skills

• Able to communicate clearly with other team members and patients/ carers
• Basic auditing skills

Values Based Question

• Give an example of a time where you have demonstrated a 'can do' attitude (including the situation you were in) and the outcome

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.

Medway NHS Foundation Trust, Medway Maritime Hospital

Acting Clinical Lead Occupational Therapist

£38,682 to £46,580 a yearper annum/pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time,Part-time

Reference number

275-2512SROT

Job locations

Medway NHS Foundation Trust, Medway Maritime Hospital