Job Introduction
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 6 Occupational Therapist to join our multidisciplinary team at North Swindon District Centre (The Orbital Centre), SN25 4DT. This role offers a varied and rewarding caseload, enabling you to use your clinical expertise to deliver person-centred, evidence-based occupational therapy interventions across the community.
As an Occupational Therapist, you will: provide occupational therapy assessment, treatment and advice to patients in their home environment or outpatient setting in order to promote and facilitate patient independence and well-being, within professional guidelines and protocols.
This is an exciting time to join us as we work in collaboration with local services to enhance rehabilitation in a seamless and integrated way.
If you're ready to take on this meaningful and fulfilling role, we'd love to hear from you
This is a part-time, fixed term role working 32 hours per week on a 6 month contract.
Base:
The Orbital, North Swindon District Centre SN25 4AN
Main Responsibilities:
Provide an evidence-based occupational therapy service of a high standard, to patients in a community setting by undertaking comprehensive assessments, reassessments, care planning, rehabilitation and therapeutic care and support. This will involve using clinical reasoning skills and knowledge of evidence-based practice to inform the appropriate intervention and developing comprehensive discharge plans from the service.
Provide professional advice and guidance to the team and others. This will involve contributing to the day-to-day management of the team, data gathering, analysis, recording and reporting, interpreting and recommended further courses of action.
Allocate, supervise, and direct on-going occupational therapy programmes to patients provided by therapy support workers as required.
Be responsible for the safe and competent use of equipment and appliances used by patients and ensure that members of the patient's family, other MDT colleagues, carers and students attain competency prior to use.
Please see the job description attached for a full list of responsibilities.
The ideal candidate will have:
Essential
Diploma/ Degree in Occupational Therapy
Membership of College of Occupational Therapists and/ or evidence of other professional liability insurance to practice
Registered with HCPC
Evidence of continuing professional development (CPD) recorded in a portfolio, as recommended by HCPC.
Essential car drivers only.
Previous post qualification experience working in health and social care environment within the Occupational Therapy professional
Depth of knowledge of principles and practices within Occupational Therapy to include knowledge of medical conditions prevalent in the elderly e.g., Fraility, Parkinson's Disease, Stroke, MS, COPD, falls, orthopaedic conditions, general ageing and diabetes.
Experienced and has depth of knowledge of professional and management practices relevant to the job role. This will include physical and functional assessments, with an awareness of cognitive assessment
Good working knowledge of typical work-related systems, procedures, equipment and technology
Knowledge and understanding of the legislation that applies to care and health
Desirable:
It is desirable to hold or be working towards a post graduate diploma / degree in professional practice and / or management practice
Good levels of IT literacy including good knowledge of service-related systems
Demonstrates experience in a people management role, including experience conducting appraisals and general performance management tasks
Experience of helping developing team members and of seeking ways to improve services
Able to interpret and explain a variety of routine and more complex technical information to a variety of audiences
Evidence of ability to resolve varied problems using sound logic and taking into consideration relevant implications and able to demonstrate evidence of good decision making
Please see the job description attached for the full specification.
Package Description
As a Band 6 Occupational Therapist you will be part of our valued team in our BSW Service, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
Band 6 AfC Salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life's emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our 'Outstanding' learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
An open, just culture where you're encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding "good" or "outstanding" ratings from the Care Quality Commission
About The Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency, and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do .
We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We're a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
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