[ref. v26331117] Senior Occupational Therapist - Acute Rehab, Buckingham Hospital

A Vacancy at Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust.

A rare and exciting opportunity has arisen for an Occupational Therapist to work at Buckingham Hospital providing assessment, acute rehabilitation and timely discharge for patients transferred from the acute hospitals.

This is a multi skilled post requiring experience in acute medical discharge planning, neurology, amputees, falls and other pathologies.

You will work under the Band 7 Therapists, Band 6 Therapists and Band 3 clinical support workers.

You will work jointly with the patients, physiotherapists, nurses and community teams both on the ward and sometimes the client’s home to enable the clients to be discharged.

We also work at weekends at Stoke Mandeville or Wycombe Hospital.

This post is part of a very friendly, supportive and dynamic Therapy department with integrated individual supervision, appraisal, CPD and in-service training.

Job share will be considered.

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• As part of our BHT family, you’ll benefit from learning and development opportunities to support your career progression.
• We offer flexible and agile working opportunities, alongside your NHS benefits of generous annual leave entitlement, pension and access to NHS discount schemes.
• We provide a range of health and wellbeing services to promote a healthy, happy workforce.

• We’re committed to promoting inclusion and making sure all colleagues feel they belong. We encourage new colleagues from a diverse range of backgrounds to apply.
• As an employer, we aim to create a workplace where differences are valued, and colleagues treat one another with dignity and respect.
• Greater diversity within our BHT family improves positive outcomes for the people and communities we serve.

• Our vision is to provide outstanding care, support healthy communities and be a great place to work.
• Our mission is to provide personal and compassionate care every time.
• Our CARE values are collaborate, aspire, respect and enable.

For a comprehensive list of responsibilities and duties, please kindly refer to the Job Description and Person Specification by downloading the JD and PS attachment in the advert.

If you are an internal applicant there is the option for secondment, all applicants must have the endorsement/support of their line manager prior to application.

If you have a disability that makes submitting this online application difficult and would like assistance, please contact us on bht.recruitment@nhs.net quoting the vacancy reference number.

This advert closes on Wednesday 22 Jan 2025