Full time 37.5 hours per week. Fixed term contract until February 2027 or Secondment.
Are you a Newly qualified Occupational Therapist?
This is an opportunity to join the team within Occupational Therapy rotation.
The rotations are 6 monthly, rotating through hospital and community services which currently cover: Orthopaedics, Home First, Inpatient Therapies, Surgery, Stroke, Social Services (Independent Living Services), Community Therapy, Palliative Care and Intermediate Care bed based, Paediatric Services and Learning Disabilities.
As with all secondment opportunities, interested parties should discuss the opportunity with their line manager before applying.
Main duties of the job
You will be required to have excellent clinical reasoning and problem skills with an ability to use and apply a range of assessment and treatment techniques and approaches relevant to specialist area you are on rotation. You will work within effective multidisciplinary teams.
Have a key Ability to communicate effectively and flexibly and to adapt your communication style to the needs of patients, carers and staff.
You will be an effective team player, inspirational, flexible, adaptable, enthusiastic and fully committed to the development of patient focused, clinically effective and efficient services.
Successful candidates will participate in and be supported through a well-established preceptorship programme, you will receive regular supervision and appraisals, in service training and peer support forum, in addition to the opportunity to develop and consolidate your clinical skills.
You will need to work flexibly to meet the needs of the service and its users, which may include weekends, late and bank holidays on a rota basis.
Job responsibilities
It is essential you are a driver, with access to a vehicle insured for business use, subject to the conditions of the DDA.
Person Specification
Qualifications & Professional Registration
* Diploma/Degree in Occupational Therapy.
* Registration with the Health Care Professions Council
* Evidence of CPD through maintenance of a portfolio
* Membership of appropriate professional body
* ECDL
Experience
* Broad range of clinical experience gained through student placements or post graduate experience.
* Experience of managing a caseload of clients with complex needs
* Experience of problem solving
* Experience of effective team working
* Experience of assessing and treating patients who do not speak English or have other barriers to communication
* Participation in clinical audit
Skills
* Clinical reasoning skills
* Ability to use and apply a range of assessment and treatment techniques and approaches relevant to specialist areas on rotation.
* Appropriate physical and sensory skill as required by profession
* Ability to communicate effectively and flexibly and to adapt communication style to the needs of patients, carers and staff.
* Ability to deal with complex and sensitive information and act appropriately.
* Ability to organise, prioritise and delegate as appropriate and to manage time effectively.
* Ability to keep accurate and legible patient notes.
* Ability to work to tight deadlines whilst working on multiple tasks.
* Ability to cope with distressing or emotional circumstances.
* Ability to establish good working relationships.
Knowledge
* Knowledge of a range of conditions and their management achieved through experience or study.
* Demonstrate learning about all the professions within the team.
* An understanding of quality governance and evidence based practice.
* Knowledge of recent NHS & Trust developments and their impact on the service.
other
* Car owner/driver subject to the conditions of the DDA
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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