Job summary
We are looking to welcome bank Band 5 applications from new graduates or Occupational Therapists, to join our friendly, innovative and dynamic Therapy Bank Team. We offerflexible working hourson our bank across urgent care and inpatient wards to suit your current lifestyle as we know work / life balance is important. We are particularly looking for Occupational Therapists to support our weekend service across urgent care and medical wards.
The Therapy team holds a high profile within the wider trust and is at the forefront of many service development strategies, continually developing and introducing new, pioneering prospects for the service.
Main duties of the job
- To perform Occupational Therapy assessment of patients with diverse presentations
- To provide a clinical diagnosis and develop and deliver an individualised treatment programme.
- To plan and prioritise own Patient caseload, working with support of a senior member of staff. Supervision takes the form of regular formal training and clinical reasoning sessions and peer review.
- To undertake all aspects of clinical duties as an autonomous practitioner.
About us
Please submit your application as soon as possible as we reserve the right to close adverts once we have received sufficient applications
Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is on an exciting journey with all of our divisions committed to doing things better, with more efficiency as we update, modernise, and advance. We have also entered a Group Model with neighbouring Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust and become University Hospitals of Northamptonshire (UHN). As part of this collaborative approach, there may be a requirement for you to work across both the Kettering and Northampton hospital sites, depending on the needs of the service.
Our Excellence Values
- Compassion
- Accountability
- Respect
- Integrity
- Courage
We want to recruit the best people to deliver our services across UHN and help to unleash everyone's full potential.
UHN encourages applications from people who identify from all protected groups. We understand that we need to work with colleagues from diverse backgrounds and make sure the environment they work in is inclusive and collaborative.
We recognise the valuable contribution that the Armed Forces community make to our organisation. We have signed the Armed Forces Covenant and achieved Silver Award under the Armed Forces Employer Recognition Scheme.
We have active Networks that promote and support colleagues from all backgrounds. This ensures everyone feels supported and has a sense of belonging working for UHN.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For further information on the advertised role, please refer to the job description located under the Supporting Documents heading.
Please note this a Bank post so therefore we cannot sponsor this role
Job description
Job responsibilities
For further information on the advertised role, please refer to the job description located under the Supporting Documents heading.
Please note this a Bank post so therefore we cannot sponsor this role
Person Specification
Education, training and qualifications
Essential
- Professional Occupational Therapy Qualification
- HPC registered
Desirable
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
- Broad range of student placements including both physical and mental health settings
- Experience of working within a multi -disciplinary team.
- Evidence of learning within student placements .
- O.T. models of practice and frames of reference
- Aware of national strategies .
Desirable
- Detailed knowledge of national strategies and impact on service provision.
Key competencies/Personal Qualities and Attributes
Essential
- Recognition of own future continuing Professional development needs.
- Good communicator - customer service problem solving skills.
- Able to continue to learn and develop in a clinical setting.
- Able to undertake moderate to intense physical effort throughout the day.
- Able to keep accurate and legible notes to professional standards.
- Understanding of legal responsibilities of the profession
- Ability to cope in stressful situations including emotional/aggressive patients/carers.
- Team player
- Good understanding of confidentiality
- Flexible/adaptable in order to gain good rotation base
- Ability to motivate self and others
- Ability to present a professional image
- Respectful of:- rights of disabled people
- Respectful of- views and work of others
- Commitment to:- equal opportunities Commitment to:- social model of disability
- Is guided by standard operating procedures, good practice, established precedents and understands what results or standards are to be achieved. Someone is generally available for reference and work may be checked on a sample/random basis
- Responsible for data entry, text processing or storage of data, utilising paper or computer based data entry systems
- To provide high quality, evidence-based care across the seven-day service as the service requires
Desirable
- Evidence of post graduate training if not 1st post.
- Basic computer skills
Person Specification
Education, training and qualifications
Essential
- Professional Occupational Therapy Qualification
- HPC registered
Desirable
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
- Broad range of student placements including both physical and mental health settings
- Experience of working within a multi -disciplinary team.
- Evidence of learning within student placements .
- O.T. models of practice and frames of reference
- Aware of national strategies .
Desirable
- Detailed knowledge of national strategies and impact on service provision.
Key competencies/Personal Qualities and Attributes
Essential
- Recognition of own future continuing Professional development needs.
- Good communicator - customer service problem solving skills.
- Able to continue to learn and develop in a clinical setting.
- Able to undertake moderate to intense physical effort throughout the day.
- Able to keep accurate and legible notes to professional standards.
- Understanding of legal responsibilities of the profession
- Ability to cope in stressful situations including emotional/aggressive patients/carers.
- Team player
- Good understanding of confidentiality
- Flexible/adaptable in order to gain good rotation base
- Ability to motivate self and others
- Ability to present a professional image
- Respectful of:- rights of disabled people
- Respectful of- views and work of others
- Commitment to:- equal opportunities Commitment to:- social model of disability
- Is guided by standard operating procedures, good practice, established precedents and understands what results or standards are to be achieved. Someone is generally available for reference and work may be checked on a sample/random basis
- Responsible for data entry, text processing or storage of data, utilising paper or computer based data entry systems
- To provide high quality, evidence-based care across the seven-day service as the service requires
Desirable
- Evidence of post graduate training if not 1st post.
- Basic computer skills
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
