It's an exciting time to join Royal Manchester Children's Hospital. We are recruiting for a motivated and passionate children's occupational therapist to join our Children's Rehabilitation Therapy Team that sits within the Division of Allied Health Professions.
The post holder will gain acute experience primarily in one or more specialities: neurology (including acquired brain injury and long term complex conditions), oncology, orthopaedics (elective and trauma including upper limb conditions), rheumatology (including chronic pain), burns & plastics, and metabolic bone disease.
You will work with children and young people from 0-18 years with complex health needs and significant injuries, along with their families.
Additionally the role involves working out of hours as part of the Major Trauma/Orthopaedic weekend and bank holiday service.
You will work as part of a dedicated multidisciplinary team within the hospital as well as liaising closely with a variety of community services. You will also be expected to work as an autonomous practitioner, developing your own treatment plans and managing a complex caseload.
You should be able to work positively with children/young people with significant injuries/wounds and ideally have achieved some basic competences with splinting.
There is a competency framework in place to support your learning and development. You need to be flexible and willing to provide cross cover to support senior colleagues in other specialities.
You will need effective communication are needed to provide intervention to children of different ages, cultural backgrounds and complex needs. This involves being able to problem solve and manage challenging situations as they arise. You must be a team player who can work collaboratively as part of an integrated multi-professional team. You must be able to manage your own time effectively and be competent to line manage and support junior, unqualified staff and students. You will be well supported; receiving professional advice and support from senior colleagues.
MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of £2.6bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.
Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.
We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.
We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.
At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the ‘Supporting Documents’ heading. So that you’re even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you’ll need to take time to read the ‘Candidate Essentials Guide’that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how ‘we care for you as you care for others’. Most importantly, it also contains critical information you’ll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team atresourcing@mft.nhs.uk.
We’re looking forward to hearing from you!
This advert closes on Thursday 5 Dec 2024
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