Acute / Community Band 5 Rotation Occupational Therapist

Job Overview

Are you

• passionate about top class patient care with a belief that every day matters.
• qualifying this year, just starting your career or looking for new learning opportunities
• ready for a new challenge
• thinking about return to practice
• driven to promote the value of Occupational Therapy and therefore influence the narrative of OT for future generations
• committed to making the NHS having a brighter future
  
  

Do you want

• to learn in a fast-paced hospital setting
• to grow your leadership skills as well as your clinical skills
• work with a diverse team with wide knowledge and experience
• develop your knowledge and skill with support from peers, specialists, clinical educators, and experienced Occupational Therapy leaders.
  
  

We Can Offer

• an acute and community rotation providing you with diverse experiences including Medicine, Orthopaedics, Surgery, Elderly Rehabilitation, A&E, Stroke, Community inpatient rehabilitation and Community based therapy (site dependent)
• excellent learning opportunities with a high level of support and supervision and appraisal from senior colleagues
• peer support
• a multi-professional preceptorship programme
  
  

To find about more about the additional things we can offer, come and meet us.

Main duties of the job

To provide excellent, high-quality person centred clinical care that advocates for patients, strive to provide a service fit for today and the future, develop personal leadership to support clinical growth. Every rotation (6 months) brings duties specific for that speciality and team.

Our teams across all sites have a friendly, supportive atmosphere and a real team ethic. We know how to look after our staff - making sure they achieve the ideal work-life balance. As a Trust we offer a multi-professional preceptorship programme. In addition, we offer excellent training opportunities supported by an APH practice development lead and clinical flow lead.

Working for our organisation

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.

We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough.

Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.

We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital's NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

If you are inspired to know more about this opportunity and our team, please see the job description attached, which outlines the main duties of this post.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Degree or Diploma in OT
• HPC registration
  
  

Competencies

Essential criteria

• Ability to work single-handedly with individuals and groups
• Computer literacy
• Team Player – understanding team dynamics
• Ability to reflect and critically appraise own performance
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Presentation skills
• Training and facilitation skills
• Use of the Tiara Therapy Computer system
  
  

Professional Experience

Essential criteria

• knowledge of evidence based practice
• Understanding of professional ethics and their application in practice
• knowledge of health legislation in current practice and clinical governance
• Knowledge of risk assessment
• Experience of work as an OT or placement as an OT student within the acute hospital setting
• Documented evidence of CPD
• Worked (could be as a student) in some of the following areas:- Acute Medicine, Orthopaedics, Surgery, Elderly Care, A&E, Neurology, community rehab.
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Experience of research and audit
  
  

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.

We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.

We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.

Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.

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