Senior Occupational Therapy Assistant

Job summary

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

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

The Trauma, Orthopaedic and Surgery Occupational Therapy team at Queens Hospital Burton is looking for an enthusiastic Band 3 Assistant to work within their team.

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

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 Trauma, Orthopaedic and Surgery team at Queens Hospital Burton is pleased to offer a 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 elective and orthopaedic patients in an acute 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 licence.

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 2025

Interview date: 24 July 2025

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, including both professional and leadership development
• On-going support through every step of the way from recruitment to when you join our team and beyond.
• A variety of other staff benefits including employee assistance programme, discounted gym membership, onsite fitness classes, car schemes

Key Facts about our Trust:

• We see on average 4810 OP appointments per 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.

Employer details

Employer name

University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Queens Hospital Burton

Belvedere Road

Burton-On-Trent

DE13 0RB

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

Queens Hospital Burton

Belvedere Road

Burton-On-Trent

DE13 0RB

Employer's website

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

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