Senior Occupational Therapy Assistant

Job summary

Are you looking for an opportunity to work within Occupational Therapy in the rehabilitation setting?

Are you a dynamic and enthusiastic individual who likes to work within a team and help care for our patients? If so, this is the post for you.

The Rehab and D2A Occupational Therapy team at Sir Robert Peel Community Hospital is looking for an enthusiastic and dynamic Band 3 Assistant to work within their team.

The post will be supporting the team to provide assessment and treatment to the varied patient caseload throughout the community hospitals. This has the aim of maximising independence and physical function in adult patients following their admission.

The role is currently full time working core hours across Monday - Friday.

We are a friendly and supportive team who can offer:

• Support from Therapy Inpatient Lead, Band 7 Team Leaders and Senior Rotational therapists within the team, including regular clinical supervision.
• Supported to provide high quality patient care including basic assessment and treatment to a caseload of patients.
• PT/OT joint working.
• Support to attend appropriate in service training opportunities and courses to maintain competencies and to achieve personal development plans.
• Support through every step of the way from recruitment to when you join our team and beyond
• Friendly, supportive and caring colleagues
• A variety of other staff benefits including employee assistance programme, discounted gym membership, onsite fitness classes, car schemes

Main duties of the job

The Community Hospital team at Sir Robert Peel Community Hospital is pleased to offer an exciting position for a flexible and driven individual to work within Occupational Therapy.

We are looking for a motivated individual with a passion for acute care who wishes to enhance their therapeutic skills to a Band 3 level. You should have excellent communication and interpersonal skills and a commitment to providing high quality care.

You will be expected to contribute to a varied clinical caseload, including working with both rehabilitation and d2a patients in a multidisciplinary setting. Therefore, previous experience of health care is essential.

To support the department it is essential to be a car driver with a clean full driving license.

Opportunities will include:

• Development of basic assessment and treatment skills to work within the acute site, to include patients with a wide variety of conditions.
• Development of skills to enable close MDT working and discharge planning in a high pressured environment.
• Contribute to support student Therapists.
• Support service improvement projects.
• Support clinical and team audit, including notes audits, stats audits and compliance with team clinical standards audits.
• Experience working within established multidisciplinary teams.
• Experience and support with discharge planning.

Closing date of applications: 10 July 2024

Interview date: 24 July 2024

About us

As a trusted organisation at the heart of our communities, we recognise the important role we can play in supporting the public, patients, our own people and local partners in achieving the best of health for the local population and the communities in which they live by providing Exceptional Care Together

Our fundamental Values of Compassion, Openness and Excellence underpin how we intend to work as a Trust and the associated behaviours are becoming embedded in all aspects of how we work.

In return we will offer:

• Development opportunities, both professional and leadership development
• On-going support from recruitment to when you join our team and beyond.
• Staff benefits including employee assistance programme, discounted gym membership, onsite fitness classes, car schemes

Key Facts:

• We see on average 4810 OP appointments a day.
• We are the 4th busiest Trauma & Orthopaedic outpatients department in England - an average of 2077 per week.
• An average of 1115 patients are seen in A&Es across our network every day - 3rd largest in the country.
• Our hospitals admit an average of 195 emergency patients daily.
• Last year we undertook almost 33,700 planned surgical operations in our 57 operating theatres.
• We are one of only 7 Trusts nationally with more than 50 operating theatres.
• We carry out more than 140 elective procedures each working day.
• UHDB is a research active University Hospital with a large and varied portfolio of clinical trials and research opportunities for all staff.

Employer details

Employer name

University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Sir Robert Peel

Plantation Lane

Tamworth

B78 3NG

Employer's website

https://www.uhdb.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Sir Robert Peel

Plantation Lane

Tamworth

B78 3NG

Employer's website

https://www.uhdb.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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