Job Overview
Band 4 OT Assistant Practitioner – Orthopaedics & Surgical / Amputee Services
Are You
Prior experience as an OT assistant is essential.
* passionate about top class patient care with a belief that everyday matters,
* ready for a new challenge,
* 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,
* grow your knowledge about equipment provision and 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
* a great opportunity to mix patient facing assessment skills and equipment provision,
* excellent learning opportunities with a high level of support, supervision, and appraisal from senior colleagues,
* generous training opportunities
* a great enthusiastic friendly team to work along side
To find about more about the additional things we can offer apply for our post and meet the team. We would love to talk to you.
Please note that we are unable to provide visa sponsorship for this position. Applicants must have the right to work in the UK
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.
The post is a key part of the OT discharge service supporting registered staff with the assessment and rehabilitation
This role includes :-
* Assessment of trauma and elective patients who have been referred Occupational Therapy
* Taking equipment out to patients' homes and fitting items (training will be given)
* Setting up / providing follow up visits for prescribed equipment,
* maintenance of stock,
* Liaison with outside agencies and patients' families,
* Teaching patients and their families how to use and fit the equipment
* Undertaking falls assessments
The post is based at Wexham Park Hospital but applicants must be able to travel between all Frimley Health's hospitals and patient's homes.
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 is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.
Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.
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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
Competenices
Essential criteria
* Interpersonal skills to include concise and effective verbal and written communication.
* Ability to instruct and motivate
* Organisational skills, ability to prioritise and manage day.
* Logical, ability to problem solve
* IT skills
* Ability to conduct and respond to risk assessments
* working knowledge of equipment / minor adaptations
* Basic understanding of the patient condition and its impact on the therapy intervention.
Desirable criteria
* Negotiation skills, able to overcome barriers to exercise.
Qualification / Skills / Experience
Essential criteria
* Score GCSE or equivalent qualification in English and Mathematics
* Knowledge of anatomy/physiology/ clinical knowledge of specialty
* NVQ Level 3 or equivalent
Desirable criteria
* Foundation Degree or equivalent in related field / or willingness to work towards
Professional Experience
Essential criteria
* Experience as Band 3 Occupational Therapy assistant within an NHS setting
* Experience of working directly with patients
* Leading and delivering exercise programmes in hospital setting
* Working within a team
Desirable criteria
* Evaluating outcomes of equipment use
* Knowledge of therapy interventions acquired through training or experience within a healthcare setting
Special Requirements
Essential criteria
* Willingness to work flexibly
* Able to work to a 7 day pattern
* To be able to travel to and from pts properties, to provide equipment
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
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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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