Senior Occupational Therapist
Job overview
Are you an emerging Band 5 or an existing band 6 who would like to explore a more rewarding managerial and clinical challenge? We have a fantastic opportunity to recruit a Band 6 Occupational Therapist to work within the Acute Team here at Bedford Hospital.We are a close working team with Band 7 Occupational Therapy Team Leads, rotational band 5’s and supportive highly skilled therapy technicians to support.
Main duties of the job
The Occupational Therapy Team specialise in complex assessment and intervention planning throughout the hospital. As an OT within the Acute Team , you will work as part of the larger MDT to ensure high quality care and treatment . Specialising in functional assessment and treatment to assist in ascertaining discharge plans, you will have the specialist skills to make high risk decisions.You will also be supporting band 5’s to develop these skills.
You will need to be able to work in an autonomous way to facilitate good communication and effectively link with multiple on site and external teams. You will have the chance to work with our exciting Prevention of Deconditioning team and will also have the opportunity to be involved in service development and audit alongside our Practice Development OT.
High quality clinical supervision is provided for all our staff. You will be supported with your professional development and training by the Team Managers and the Professional Lead OT.
Working for our organisation
Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides hospital services to a growing population of around 700,000 people living across Bedfordshire and the surrounding areas across two busy hospital sites in Bedford and Luton. Both hospital sites offer key services such as A&E, Obstetrics-led Maternity and Paediatrics.You will be joining a friendly, high performing Trust committed to ensuring the health and wellbeing of staff. As one of the largest NHS Trusts in our region you will have access to a programme of high quality training and development to help you grow your career.
The Trust continues to be committed to delivering the best patient care using the best clinical knowledge and technology available
Our values
We not only recruit based on qualifications and experience - we recruit individuals who demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our Trusts core values. We achieve this by using values based recruitment. We are dedicated to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone, we are committed to promoting equality and diversity, and creating a culture that values differences.
Please note that vacancies may close prior to the advertised closing date when sufficient number of applications have been received. All new staff will be subject to a probationary period covering first 6 months in post. Travel between hospital sites may be required.Please review documents attached to ensure you familiarize yourself with all requirements of the job.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To be professionally and legally accountable for all aspects of your work including management of patient caseloads.
Formulate and develop individual treatment programmes underpinned by sound knowledge of evidence-based practice and using a range of treatment options.
Use clinical reasoning skills and evaluate outcomes of treatments to continually reassess and develop treatment programmes.Establish an accurate prognosis and recommend best course of treatments in addition to developing comprehensive treatment and discharge plans.
Use a large range of verbal and non-verbal communication tools to communicate with patients to progress and gain participation with rehabilitation treatment programmes. This will include patients who have difficulties in understanding and communicating.
To be responsible for management of clinical risk of your own caseload.To work within Trust and Royal College of Occupational Therapy (RCOT) guidelines, have a good working knowledge of national and local standards and monitor own and other working practices in liaison with Senior Occupational Therapists To be responsible for the safe and competent use of all equipment.
To be responsible for maintaining own competencies through CPD activities.
To be responsible for teaching student occupational therapists to graduate level on knowledge and skills within your department.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria- HCPC Registered
- BSC Hons Occupational Therapy or Diploma in Occupational Therapy
- Leadership course
- Manual handling qualification
Experience
Essential criteria- Experience within an acute NHS setting
- Understanding and ability to apply process OT
- Experience of MDT working
- Variety of relevant clinical experience
- Supervising practice placements for O.T. students
- Previous audit experience
Knowledge
Essential criteria- IT literate including knowledge of Microsoft office tools
- Demonstrate a pragmatic approach to a range of unpredictable situations
- Professional and customer care skills
- Able to deal with variety of environmental factors
- Ability to prioritise work load and delegate tasks appropriately
- Experience of services development
Other
Essential criteria- Communicating sensitive information to staff, patients or carers.
- Be able to undertake moderate physical effort throughout day
It is an exciting time to join the newly formed Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. We run two busy hospital sites in Bedford and Luton. Our 7,500 staff provide high quality care for a growing population of around 700,000 across Bedfordshire and the surrounding areas.
You will be joining a friendly, high performing Trust committed to ensuring the health and wellbeing of staff. As one of the largest NHS Trusts in our region you will have access to a programme of high quality training and development to help you grow your career.Travel between hospital sites may be required. We have state-of-the art facilities placing us at the heart of cutting edge health care. The Trust continues to be committed to delivering the best patient care using the best clinical knowledge and technology available.
All new staff will be subject to a probationary period covering their first six months in post.