Occupational Therapist - Rotational
Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep.
Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is…the Northumbria Way!
What the Northumbria Way means for you:
- Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
- Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
- A range of flexible working opportunities
- Generous annual leave and pension scheme
- Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
- Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
- On-site nursery places via salary sacrifice
- Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank
Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.
We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise – a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people’s lives, such as education, employment and the economy.
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Job overview
Northumbria Healthcare are excited to offer opportunities to join our Band 5 Rotation, working across all Northumbria hospital sites. You will gain experience in a range of specialities, including stroke, mental health, A&E, rheumatology and falls, developing skills and knowledge against a comprehensive competency framework.
We will offer you learning and development opportunities tailored to your individual career aspirations.
We are looking for forward thinking, enthusiastic therapists who are passionate about occupational therapy and enjoy developing their professional skills. You will be offered regular supervision and meetings with the Band 5 cohort.
It is essential that candidates are able to meet travel requirements of the role.
Some weekend working will be required. Our service is moving towards 8am – 8pm operating hours, therefore some 8am starts and 8pm finishes may be required. We support the trust's flexible working policy.
Full and part time applicants are welcomed.
Main duties of the job
Successful candidates will;
Undertake assessments, plan implement and evaluate therapeutic interventions. This may occur in hospital and within relevant community environments, including the patients’ home.
Work with a wide range of patients in specific specialised areas as part of a multi-disciplinary team
Ensure service provision is prioritised and service delivery is made effectively within resource available.
Manage a defined caseload, using evidence based clinical reasoning to assess plan implemented and evaluate interventions.
Deliver a quality service responding to referrals within an appropriate time scale, and achieve optimum functional achievements for all patients.
Lead in the decision making process for discharge planning through assessment and the analysis of treatment outcomes.
Working for our organisation
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England.We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres.
We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us.We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To work within a specialised team which is under the operational management of the Head OT.
To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria- Diploma or degree in OT
- State registered with HCPC
- Evidence of qualification to undertake the supervision, teaching and assessing of students (essential requirement for post, expectation this will be completed within an 18 month period).
Experience & Knowledge
Essential criteria- Interest or experience in elderly, medical orthopaedics surgery and stroke rehab as well as rehabilitation and community work
- Application of the O.T. process.
- Membership of professional body
- Membership of Special Interest Group
- Experience of working in one or more of fields listed
- Previous experience of supervision of others
- Experience using standardised assessments/outcome measures
Skills & Abilities
Essential criteria- Ability to undertake O.T. assessments and interventions
- Knowledge of standardised assessments relevant to specialised area
Other Requirements
Essential criteria- It is an essential requirement of the role that the post holder has a valid driving licence and is either a car owner and able to use the car for work purposes, or has a Trust personal lease vehicle which may be used for the role. However, the Trust would consider making reasonable adjustments to the role, if necessary, to enable a disabled person to undertake the role.
Applicants who are members of the Armed Forces, and those who have a disability that requires support in the work place (two ticks pledge) and who meet the essential criteria will be interviewed under the Trust's interview guarantee scheme.
We recognise the positive value of diversity and inclusion and are committed to a workforce that is diverse, equal and inclusive. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME people are currently under-represented in our workforce as well as other under-represented groups such as LGBT+ and disabled candidates.We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, a Stonewall Diversity Champion, we have a Gold award from the Defense Recognition Scheme, and we are delighted to support Apprenticeships, Age Posi+ive and are a mindful employer.
If you require any reasonable adjustments to attend interview please make the recruitment team aware as soon as possible by calling our HR Recruitment Team on 0191 203 1415 option 2.
Applicants who meet the Fit and Proper Person Requirements (FPPR) will require additional pre-employment checks in line with CQC and NHS England statutory guidance.
Make sure to read the ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application and make sure you know everything there is to know before joining our fantastic trust!
Please note that it is a requirement of this Trust that all successful applicants pay for their own DBS certification if a DBS check is required for the post. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first monthly pay.