* Passionate about top class patient care with a belief that every day matters.
* Qualifying this year, just starting your career or looking for new learning opportunities
* Ready for a new challenge
* Thinking about return to practice
* Driven to promote the value of Occupational Therapy and therefore influence the narrative of OT for future generations
* Committed to making the NHS having a brighter future
Do you want
* To learn in a fast-paced hospital setting
* Grow your leadership skills as well as your clinical skills
* Work with a diverse team with wide knowledge and experience
* Develop your knowledge and skill with support from peers, specialists, clinical educators, and experienced Occupational Therapy leaders.
We can offer:
* An acute and community rotation providing you with diverse experiences including Medicine, Orthopaedics, Surgery, Elderly Rehabilitation, A&E, Stroke, Hand Therapy, Community inpatient rehabilitation and Community based therapy (site dependent)
* Excellent learning opportunities with a high level of support and supervision and appraisal from senior colleagues
* Peer support from a large group of colleagues on the rotation
* A multi-professional preceptorship programme
Main duties of the job
To provide excellent, high-quality person centred clinical care that advocates for patients, strive to provide a service fit for today and the future, develop personal leadership to support clinical growth. Every rotation (6 months) brings duties specific for that speciality and team.
Our teams across all sites have a friendly, supportive atmosphere and a real team ethic. We know how to look after our staff - making sure they achieve the ideal work-life balance.
About us
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.
We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough.
Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other: Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.
Job responsibilities
If you are inspired to know more about this opportunity and our team, please see the job description attached, which outlines the main duties of this post.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Degree or Diploma in OT
* HCPC registration
* Good organisational skills
* Ability to work single-handedly with individuals and groups
* Effective written and oral communication skills
* Ability to manage own workload and determine priorities, relevant to acute physical hospital setting
* Be able to work under pressure
* Training and facilitation skills
* Use of electronic patient record
Professional / Specialist / Functional Experience
* Knowledge of evidence based practice
* Understanding of professional ethics and their application in practice
* Knowledge of health legislation in current practice and clinical governance
* Knowledge of risk assessment
* Experience of work as an OT or placement as an OT student within the acute hospital setting
* Documented evidence of CPD
* Worked (could be as a student) in some of the following areas: Acute Medicine, Orthopaedics, Surgery, Elderly Care, A&E, Neurology, community rehab
* Experience of research and audit
Special Requirements
* Willingness to rotate clinical area of work
* Willingness to work flexibly across a 7 day service
* Must be able to travel between sites
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.
£31,469 to £38,308 a year per annum incl HCAS
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