Employer: Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Countywide - around Oxford city and community hospitals in Oxfordshire
Town: Countywide Oxfordshire
Salary: £29,970 - £36,483 per annum | pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 12/01/2025 23:59
Rotational Occupational Therapist - Countywide
Band 5
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust has been rated as Good by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
We are a responsive and innovative Foundation Trust that places our values of Caring, Safe, and Excellent at the heart of everything we do. We take great pride in our staff and believe that investing in you is key to us achieving our vision of outstanding care delivered by outstanding people.
We work with a wide range of partner organisations to deliver care and support to people in their own homes and from a number of hospitals and community bases. We focus on delivering care as close to home as possible for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath, and North East Somerset.
We actively support anti-racism, equality, diversity, and inclusion. If you’re excited about this job opportunity and you meet our Trust values, but feel unsure about applying, please get in touch, and we will be happy to have a conversation with you.
Job overview
Are you a recently qualified OT looking to develop your skills and experience across a wide range of physical and mental health settings?
We are looking for OTs to join our established and sought-after Band 5 Occupational Therapy rotation.
This role will require you to travel countywide across the Trust's sites regularly. You must therefore be comfortable with driving for work purposes and able to travel freely within the hours of the role. Applicants must have a full valid driving licence and have access to a vehicle for work. Adjustments can be considered in line with the Equality Act 2010 where required.
Main duties of the job
Our rotation offers a unique opportunity to work in a mix of clinical areas across physical health, mental health, and various specialist services. The rotation currently includes:
* Adult Learning Disability (community)
* Forensic Mental Health (inpatient)
* Stroke Rehabilitation (inpatient)
* Older Adult Mental Health (community)
* Community Therapy Service (community)
* Community Hospital rehabilitation (inpatient)
The rotation is focused in and around the city of Oxford, with some rotations based in the community hospitals around the county. Each rotation is for a period of 8 months.
In each rotation, you will work within a team to assess, plan, treat, and review patients with a range of physical and mental health conditions. Different settings use different clinical models or frameworks suitable for their area, which you will be supported to develop your understanding of. You will also be supported to work through specific competencies to evidence your developing skills in each specialism.
Working for our organisation
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust provides physical, mental health, and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath, and North East Somerset.
Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics, and people’s homes, delivering care as close to home as possible.
Our vision is that no matter who you are or where you are, you will tell us that you receive:“Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team”
Our values are:“Caring, safe, and excellent”
At Oxford Health, we offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:
* Excellent opportunities for career progression
* Access to tailored individual and Trust-wide learning and development
* 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
* NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants, and retailers
* Lease car scheme
* Cycle to work scheme
* Employee Assistance Programme
* Mental Health First Aiders
* Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists may apply)
* Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
In all the B5 posts, you will be supported by senior Occupational Therapy colleagues and a wider multi-disciplinary team. If this is your first qualified post, you will be supported to complete your preceptorship as part of our Flyer Programme. We also have our recently launched career framework to support all qualified OTs to review and evidence their continuing development and support them to look at a variety of areas for their development.
We ask all B5 OTs to join our B5 OT Development Group. This is a monthly CPD education and peer support programme. These sessions aim to consolidate OT identity in a variety of clinical settings and support the application of theory into practice.
We are really proud of the range of clinical areas covered by our rotation and the breadth of experience this will give our rotational OTs. We hope that this rotation, along with our B5 Development Group and our award-winning preceptorship programme (The Flyer Programme) gives recently qualified OTs a great start to their career.
We want you to have a great experience, working with us to support your development into the next generation of leaders and expert clinicians. We are committed to developing a strong occupational therapy workforce and supporting your career progression, whether it be through quality improvement and research, clinical specialism, education, or management and leadership.
Person specification
Experience
* Mentions learning from a range of placements
* Demonstration of MDT working
Skills
* Good command of written English
* Demonstrates diverse skillset as required for rotation
Qualifications
* HCPC registered or working towards
* All new starters have a thorough induction process, both local and Trust-wide, which aims to create a positive supportive working environment allowing new employees to learn key elements of their role over a reasonable timescale.
* Appointment to this post is subject to the trust receiving satisfactory references covering 3 years of employment or study. Please ask your referees to respond promptly to reference requests.
* Employees are expected to undertake mandatory and statutory training related to their role.
* We are ambitious in our pursuit of excellence, driven by the belief that a fair, just, and fully inclusive organisational culture enables our teams to deliver the best quality of care and services possible and we work hard to ensure that our diverse workforce reflects the communities that we serve.
* We welcome applications from all sections of the community, are an Equal Opportunities employer with a number of internal networking groups to support our employees and where possible will always look to make reasonable adjustments in order that you can fulfil the role to recognise your full potential. All our employees are committed to demonstrating through their behaviour our core values – safe, caring, and excellent.
* Oxford Health is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults; we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
* Oxford is a world-renowned centre of excellence for research. Oxford Health works closely with the University of Oxford department of Psychiatry and the Department of Primary care, has a Biomedical Research Centre dedicated to improving mental health and the NIHR Clinical Research Facility at the Warneford site. The Trust also hosts the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) which carries out applied research that directly impacts patient health and wellbeing.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Name: Rachael Stamp
Job title: Occupational Therapy Practice Development Lead
Email address: [emailprotected]
Telephone number: 07442690103
Additional information:
At Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, we want to employ people not just with experience, but with the aptitude and motivation to succeed and whose values resonate with our own.
Therefore, if you don’t meet all the requirements of the role and are unsure about applying but are excited about the opportunity, please do get in touch. We will be happy to discuss the requirements in more detail ahead of making a written application.
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