Senior Occupational Therapist - Acute Rehab, Buckingham Hospital

Be part of our BHT family

Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust (BHT) is an integrated provider of acute hospital and community services for people living in Buckinghamshire and the surrounding area.

We care for over half a million patients every year:

• provide specialist spinal services at our world renowned National Spinal Injuries Centre at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, the birthplace of the Paralympics
• nationally recognised for urology and skin cancer services
• regional specialist centre for burns, plastic surgery, dermatology, stroke and cardiac services
• deliver community services in health centres, schools, patients’ own homes, community hospitals and community hubs.

More than 6,500 people from different nations, cultures and backgrounds work for us.

We would be happy to discuss possible flexible working options. We strive to be a family friendly, inclusive employer.

If you require any assistance in making this application, please contact [email protected] or phone 01494 734868.

We pride ourselves in being a great place to work – and invite you to join our BHT family.

Job overview

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.

Main duties of the job

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.

Working for our organisation

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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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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 [email protected] quoting the vacancy reference number.

Person specification

EDUCATION, QUALIFICATIONS & TRAINING

• Current registration with Health Professions Council
• Diploma /Degree in Occupational Therapy
• Evidence of CPD in the form of a detailed personal development portfolio

• Specific formal courses appropriate to post speciality
• Membership of professional special interest group
• Field work/clinical educators course

EXPERIENCE

• Experience of a junior rotational Occupational Therapy post in the NHS
• Previous experience of a broad rotational schem
• Attendance at post graduate courses in related fields and demonstrates reflective learning
• Knowledge of areas of clinical governance including quality, audit and risk management
• Experience of managing own caseload and prioritizing
• Ability to work and interact effectively within an interdisciplinary team and contribute to decision making
• Evidence of commitment to continuing professional development, and reflective practice
• Knowledge and application of evidence based practice and clinical reasoning
• Evidence of commitment to continuing professional development, and reflective practice
• Establish and maintain CPD Portfolio

• Basic splinting skills
• Knowledge of areas of influence of psychosocial and cultural factors on health/illness behaviours
• Experience in supervision of students and junior staff
• Participation in audit, research activities and development activities
• Experience of undertaking Senior (Band 6) role
• Demonstration of having initiated change of practice or process
• Experience in student clinical supervision

SKILLS, ABILITIES & KNOWLEDGE

• Able to apply a range and depth of knowledge to the specialist clinical area of post
• Able to make sound clinical decisions based on knowledge/experience and utilize advanced clinical reasoning skills
• Able to carry out a range of assessments and procedures in order to make clinical assessments and diagnosis
• Able to carry out manual therapy techniques and therapeutic handling, requiring skillful and strenuous physical effort during the day
• Awareness of limitations of own professional abilities
• Clear, concise verbal and written communication to ensure liaison with multi disciplinary team, patients and carers to ensure records and reports are accurate, legal and in legible manner (in English)
• Ability to integrate, participate and contribute as an effective member of a team
• Ability to self direct towards the attainment of clear goals
• Ability to prioritise tasks and functions against well reasoned standards.
• Positive response to constructive criticism
• Ability to plan, manage and organise required tasks within available resources (including time)
• Use of and/or knowledge of POMR record keeping
• Knowledge of Current related legislation (H&S, Data P. Act, etc)
• Commitment to equal opportunities and anti-discriminatory practice
• Understand how to maintain confidentiality, privacy and dignity of patients

SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES

• To demonstrate appropriate level of assertiveness
• Able to fulfill the physical demands of the role subject to reasonable adjustment under the terms of the Disciplinary Discrimination Act 1995
• Able to be empathetic and handle difficult or emotional situations, using judgement to determine optimal intervention
• Ability to participate in weekend working ( not fixed term contracts) Flexible to meet the needs of the service
• To have strategies for dealing with stressful interpersonal situations and frequent exposure to unpleasant working conditions

PPE requirements: Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust requires all colleagues to wear appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) in accordance with our infection prevention and control procedures.

COVID-19 and Flu vaccinations remain the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course our patients from the viruses when working in our healthcare settings. We encourage our staff to be vaccinated when recommended.

If you are successful at interview, we will require you to complete a Covid-19 risk assessment document.

Application deadline: This post will close on the closing date stated at midnight. If we receive a large number of applications or there is a change in circumstance, we may be required to close a job before to the closing date.

Application information: If you are offered a job, information will be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.

Shortlisting: The monitoring and safeguarding sections are not made visible to the shortlisting panel. The safeguarding section may be made visible to the interview panel, dependent on the role being recruited into.

Smoking: All Trust sites are NO SMOKING. Smoking in all areas of the buildings and premises is prohibited.