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Band 5 Occupational Therapist - Therapies
The closing date is 15 September 2025
CALLING ALL ENTHUSIASTIC & MOTIVATED OCCUPATIONAL THERAPISTS! University Hospitals Birmingham (UHB) are recruiting to our established Band 5 rotation across Heartlands, Good Hope, & Solihull Hospitals including Solihull Community Services. UHB NHS Trust is based in the vibrant city of Birmingham.
Opportunities are available for positions based across all sites providing intervention to adults across a variety of clinical areas, such as: Stroke & Neurology, Trauma & Orthopaedics, Health Care for older People, Medicals, OPAL, Respiratory, Specialist Surgery, Infectious Diseases, Renal, Solihull Community. Providing a variety of clinical experience to consolidate and develop your skills supporting successful career progression within the Trust.
Are you an established Band 5 wishing to experience different clinical fields or in the final year of your degree? You will be joining a large and supportive therapy team, with robust supervision and appraisal systems, excellent training and development opportunities, such as Band 5-6 development posts with broader specialist clinical areas included, such as: Macmillan, Paediatrics, plus more. Coupled with the opportunity to work alongside highly specialist colleagues and integrate into a variety of specialist multidisciplinary teams.
The Trust provides a preceptorship programme for new graduates. Successful candidates will be required to participate in 7 day working rotas.
Main duties of the job
CLINICAL RESPONSIBILITIES:
1 Caseload Management
* To be responsible for managing his/her own caseload with clinical supervision from senior Occupational Therapists
* Use this support to reflect and learn from practice
2 OT Role
* To demonstrate confidence in the O.T. role within the Multi professional team
* To recognise the role of other members of the multi professional team, to have knowledge of and use the resources of each service in the team appropriately
* To demonstrate the application of the OT process to patient care
* Recognise when it may be necessary to carry out Access, Home and follow up visits, with guidance from a senior colleague
* Carry out straightforward home, access and follow up visits in discussion with senior colleagues, once confidence and the necessary skills are acquired over time.
3 OT intervention
* To identify all patients requiring OT intervention and prioritise them accordingly to the OT guidelines, with support of senior colleagues
* Carry out all necessary assessments of the patient's needs in self-care, productivity & leisure
* To establish plans of intervention and carry them out according to OT standards; adjusting as necessary
* To organise discharge plans for patients with guidance from senior colleagues
* To learn and understand about options for patient care in relation to the clinical area
For information contact Craig Colton or Luke holland, Clinical Team Leader 0121 424 7798 email Craig.colton@uhb.nhs.uk, Luke.holland@uhb.nhs.uk
About us
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust strives to have an inclusive culture where everyone feels like they belong, can thrive, knows that they add value and feels valued. We do this by developing compassionate and culturally competent leaders, being values driven in all that we do and by creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace that thrives on the diversity of our people. As such we want to attract and recruit talented individuals from all backgrounds, and for each of you to feel supported for the diversity you bring, to achieve your full potential. For those staff with a disability, including physical disability, long term health condition, mental health or neurodiverse condition, this also means being committed to making reasonable adjustments needed for you to carry out your role.
Job responsibilities
*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*
Person Specification
Qualifications
* DIP RCOT/Degree in Occupational Therapy
* HCPC membership
Experience
* Student placement in an area with transferrable skills
* Knowledge of an Acute Hospital Setting
* Other relevant student/workplace experience.
* Experience of interdisciplinary working
Additional Criteria
* Knowledge of principles of Clinical Governance.
* Understanding of team work
* Good Time management and ability to organise own workload
* Able to seek and use support appropriately
* Aware of own limitations
* Ability to use own initiative and seek guidance with more complex issues
* Ability to participate in weekend working
* Ability to prioritise own caseload
* Refined time management skills
* Ability to drive
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.
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