Site Mayfield, Thurrock Community Hospital Town Grays Salary £37,338 - £44,962 p.a. (plus HCAS) pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 03/04/2025 23:59
Joining #TeamNELFT means you’ll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We’re CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London, Essex, Kent and Medway. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.
The Trust has award winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development, because when you are valued and supported, we provide the best care to our patients.
Job overview
Senior Occupational Therapist
Band 6
Permanent Contract
Mayfield Unit, Thurrock Community Hospital
Are you an experienced B5 Occupational Therapist, looking towards progressing into a substantive B6 Senior OT role with a diverse and dynamic team? Or are you a B6 Occupational Therapist looking to work with an established therapy team with aspirations to progress? Then NELFT has the perfect opportunity for you at Thurrock Community Hospital.
Main duties of the job
Mayfield Unit in Thurrock Community Hospital is a 24 bedded inpatient ward with free parking facilities and situated in a pleasant local community. We provide rehabilitation to older adults improving service users’ functional skills with their activities of daily living whilst promoting independence.
Working for our organisation
Starting with NELFT
NELFT place a great deal of importance on new starters being properly welcomed and inducted into the Trust. All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and will undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks which will include mandatory training, systems training and the allocation of equipment.
Probationary Period
This post will be subject to a probationary period. Internal applicants are exempt from the probationary period (unless you are an internal applicant currently part way through a probationary period or currently a bank member of staff).
High Cost Area Supplement - Fringe
This post also attracts payment for High Cost Area Supplement of 5% of the basic salary (with a minimum of £1,258 to a maximum of £2,122 p.a. pro rata for part time).
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
If you are progressive and innovative professional constantly striving to improve your clinical practice, this is the position for you. Successful candidate will be forward-thinking OT, who has sound decision making skills, effective clinical reasoning and wish to work as part of a supportive inpatient multidisciplinary team.
Person specification
Knowledge
* An awareness of NHS priorities
* Good awareness of NHS Forward Plan NSF and clinical governance priorities
Qualifications
* BSc Occupational Therapy
* HCPC registered
Experience
* Evidence of CPD in Portfolio with recent learning relevant to clinical field.
* Recent experience of working in the NHS as part of a multi-disciplinary team (2 years minimum)
We believe in bringing your authentic and best self to work, in order to deliver the best care to our patients.
* A long-standing and award-winning approach to equality and diversity with supportive networks for ethnic minority staff, staff with disabilities or long term/chronic conditions and LGBT staff.
* A commitment to supporting colleagues to achieve a work life balance, through flexible working opportunities and our efforts to support our working parents and carers.
* Proactive health and wellbeing support, including access to our employee assistance programme, staff psychological support, individual wellbeing conversations and a network of health and wellbeing ambassadors.
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you.
Equal opportunities employer
We are committed to equal opportunities and diversity and positively encourage applications from all sections of the community regardless of any protected characteristic.
We are a Disability Confident employer and have made the pledge to commit to employing more people with disabilities.
Correspondence with us
You are advised to regularly check your emails (including any junk mail/spam folders) for correspondence related to this post.
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.
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