Job summary

We are looking for registered Occupational Therapists to join our staff bank at band 6. Our services are within the Integrated Care Division here at Wye Valley NHS Trust.

Are you looking for an opportunity to try a new area, seek additional hours?We are looking for enthusiastic, compassionate, dynamic reliable and innovative Occupational Therapists with a variety of experience to join our service to work alongside our substantive teams.

The clinical areas available are:

Acute Inpatient stroke

Inpatient Trauma & Orthopaedics

Inpatient Acute medicine & Surgical

Neighbourhood Team - Community

Urgent Care Hospital @ Home - Community

Excellent communication, time management and organisational skills are essential, and you should be able to work on your own initiative and as part of a team.

It is essential that you have current HCPC registration.

*If you are considering a return to practice please get in touch and we would be happy to support this.

Main duties of the job

Working as part of the therapy and wider multidisciplinary team, Band 6 senior therapists use specialist skills in a variety of areas to provide direct high quality and effective therapeutic care and support to patients. Based on the role, the post holder will be based either in the Acute and/or Community Hospitals in a range of ward settings, outpatient departments or the community. This post may include working with adults and/or children.

Within the scope of the role, the post holder will independently plan, complete specialist assessment and deliver interventions. They will be responsible for independently managing their own patient caseload, demonstrating clinical autonomy, specialist clinical reasoning, prioritisation and manage competing demands. Supervision is clear and direct from senior therapy staff and includes formal training, supervised sessions, advice and support.

The band 6 senior therapist will be required to participate in 7 day working

About us

Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire NHS FT and the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust.

Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.

We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care we'd want for our family and friends.

More than 3,000 people work for the Trust - they tell us it's a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.

We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.

Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman: \The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential.

Our values -Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time...all the time.

Job description

Job responsibilities

.Please see attached job description and person specification for details of main responsibilities.

We are looking for registered Occupational Therapists to join our staff bank at band 6. Our services are within the Integrated Care Division here at Wye Valley NHS Trust.

Are you looking for an opportunity to try a new area, seek additional hours?We are looking for enthusiastic, compassionate, dynamic reliable and innovative Occupational Therapists with a variety of experience to join our service to work alongside our substantive teams.

The clinical areas available are:

Acute Inpatient stroke

Inpatient Trauma & Orthopaedics

Inpatient Acute medicine & Surgical

Neighbourhood Team - Community

Urgent Care Hospital @ Home - Community

Excellent communication, time management and organisational skills are essential, and you should be able to work on your own initiative and as part of a team.

It is essential that you have current HCPC registration.

*If you are considering a return to practice please get in touch and we would be happy to support this.

Person Specification

Education and Qualifications

Essential

• Professional Qualification to degree level or equivalent in Occupational Therapy
• HCPC registration
• Post Graduate specialist qualification/significant post graduate experience

Skills, Knowledge and Abilities

Essential

• Broad and specialist knowledge of relevant patient conditions and therapy interventions
• Demonstration of knowledge of core and specialist Therapy skills
• Evidence of ongoing CPD in relevant area
• Experience of multi-disciplinary communication, assessments and record keeping
• Computer Skills including word processing and e-mail
• Able to make independent, sound, clinical decisions and problem solve
• Able to manage busy case load and prioritise
• Ability to work autonomously using specialist knowledge, skills and initiative in sometimes complex situations acknowledging role boundaries

Experience

Essential

• NHS or equivalent experience e.g. in inpatient areas, acute or community or community services
• Experience of using/fitting adaptive equipment

Personal Attributes

Essential

• Able to maintain confidentiality and professionalism within the environment that they are working
• Able to demonstrate awareness of own limitations and need to ask for help
• Evidence of ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in written documentation
• Works well in a team
• Ability to adapt and demonstrate flexibility in changing service needs
• Shows evidence of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence
• Reliable

Other Factors

Essential

• Ability to fulfil the travel requirements of post
• Able to meet physical & moving and handling requirements of post. I.e. re-positioning of a patient, use of moving & handling equipment, approved manual physical movement practices of patient
• Able to deal sensitively and safely with blood and bodily fluids

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