Senior Occupational Therapist - Paediatric Team
Job overview
Senior Occupational Therapist - Paediatric Team
Directorate: Cancer and Core Clinical ServicesCare Group: Diagnostics and Therapies
Band: 6
Salary: £37,338 - £44,962 per annum/pro rata
Please note this role is Fixed term/Secondment for 12 months covering maternity leave
We are recruiting for a Senior Occupational Therapist who shares our ambition and vision to deliver the Best of Care by the Best People and has the drive to take us forward, by ensuring that the Trust continues to be the first choice for patients and our staff.
Main duties of the job
he successful post holder will work in an integrated therapy team of Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists and Therapy Assistants, providing excellent therapy care to patients in assessment areas and the wards.
The Paediatric Senior Occupational Therapist will have the opportunity to work with children with a wide range of different conditions as well as supporting our Women's service.
You will work within the multi-disciplinary team, working closely with consultants, site practitioners, flow coordinators, nursing staff and specialist nurses, community therapy services and discharge teams.
The role will provide you with experience of working in a challenging and fast-paced acute ward and assessment environments and the opportunity to develop skills within this area.
Our values are Bold, Every Person Counts, Sharing and Open and Together. It is important that you understand and to refer to our values when completing your application and always reflect our values throughout your employment with the Trust.
We are committed to endorsing diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion; our policies / procedures ensure that all applicants are treated fairly at every stage of the recruitment process.
To contribute to our exciting future and become part of our team, apply today.
Working for our organisation
Do you have the ambition and vision to deliver our mission of the Best of Care by the Best of People providing excellent care, every time?
Here at Medway, we pride ourselves on working together as one to ensure that our shared vision is achieved for our patients.
As a key partner in the healthcare of our local population, we are keen to deliver this as an outcome of our Trust-wide strategy – Patient First. Using an Operational Excellence approach to align our priorities and operational management structures, we are just over a year and half into our Patient First deployment.We are looking for creative, skilled people to join our Transformation Team and further support us on this journey.
Our culture and values define us here at Medway NHS Foundation Trust and are the heartbeat of who we are as an organisation.
Our BEST values underpin Patient First and are at the core of the care we give to our patients, the support we offer to our staff and our overall leadership approach:
B – Bold
E – Every person counts
S – Sharing and open
T - Together
Our Trust is a great choice for people who want to develop their career in an ambitious and dynamic environment; our employees are able to choose the coverage and supplemental benefits that best fit their needs and those of their families. This includes the promotion of flexible working opportunities across the Trust.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To be professionally and legally accountable for all aspects of own work including responsibility of an allocated patient case/work load
To undertake assessment, standardised and non-standardised, of patients and children including those with diverse and complex presentations and conditions: using clinical reasoning skills and assessment techniques to formulate individualised treatment plans and programmes
To deliver individualised Occupational Therapy intervention and treatment programmes using a broad range of Occupational Therapy skills in individual and group settings
To continually reassess patients and children progress, adapting treatment plans accordingly, and developing discharge plans
To refer patients and children appropriately to other health and social care services according to protocol providing timely and detailed information to ensure good continuity of care
To communicate effectively with families and children, carers and other health care professionals using a wide range of verbal and non-verbal communication tools to share assessment findings, agree treatment plans, progress rehabilitation, give advice, teaching etc.This will include patients with communication and comprehension difficulties and those who may be
unable to accept diagnosis/prognosis
To supervise and mentor rotational therapists, students and therapy assistants
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria- Diploma/degree in occupational therapy
- Current Health Professions Council registration
- Membership of the College of Occupational Therapy
Experience
Essential criteria- Broad range of experience and junior level including acute environments
- Experience of responding to demand / prioritising work / managing a caseload
Knowledge
Essential criteria- Good knowledge of basis assessment and treatment of patients with a range of conditions
- Understanding of the balance of professional development needs with service needs
- Understanding of Clinical Governance and managing risk in your own work
Skills
Essential criteria- To have developed a CPD portfolio and demonstrate a planned commitment to CPD
- Experience of implementing change
Values Based Question
Essential criteria- Give an example of a time where you have demonstrated a ‘can do’ attitude (including the situation you were in) and the outcome