Band 5 Occupational Therapists

Barts Health Nhs Trust; United States; Remote; USD 37,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

Whipps Cross Hospital, part of Barts Health NHS Trust, is seeking an enthusiastic Occupational Therapist to join a supportive and dynamic team. You will work autonomously to deliver high quality OT interventions across wards, outpatient departments and patients’ homes.

You will assess and treat a wide variety of patients, provide individual and group education, and arrange assistive devices and minor home adaptations across specialties including respiratory, neuroscience, stroke, trauma and hand

Qualifications

• Provide high quality occupational therapy interventions autonomously.
• Assess and treat patients; provide education sessions.
• Provide assistive devices (orthotics and prosthetics) and home adaptations.
• Work across hospital wards, outpatient departments and patients' homes.

Responsibilities

• Work in specialties across Barts Health NHS Trust including respiratory and critical care, acute admissions, neurosciences and stroke, trauma and orthopaedics, cancer services and hand therapy.

Skills

Autonomous practice

Patient education

Assistance devices

Home adaptations

Tools

Orthotics

Prosthetics

Job description

Are you an enthusiastic, motivated, and versatile Occupational Therapist looking to start or progress your career within a supportive and dynamic team? Join us at Whipps Cross Hospital, part of Barts Health NHS Trust - the largest NHS trust in the UK.

To work as an autonomously provide high quality occupational therapy interventions to a wide variety of patients including the assessment and treatment of patients, provision of individual and group education and treatment sessions, provision of assistive devices (orthotics and prosthetics) and equipment and minor home adaptations in a wide variety of settings including hospital wards, outpatient departments and the patients home. Working in a number of specialties across Barts Health NHS Trust including respiratory and critical care, acute admissions unit, neurosciences and stroke, trauma and orthopaedics, cancer services and hand therapy.

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain's leading healthcare providers.

The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.