Job summary
Are you an emerging Band 5 or an existing band 6 who would like to explore a more rewarding managerial and clinical challenge? We have a fantastic development opportunity to recruit an Occupational Therapist to work within the Acute Ortho/Surgical Team here at Bedford Hospital. On successful completion of objectives within 9 months the post holder will automatically progress to a band 6 role within the team. We are a close working team with a band 7 Occupational Therapy Team Lead, rotational band 5's and supportive highly skilled therapy technicians to support.
Main duties of the job
The Occupational Therapy Team specialise in complex assessment and discharge planning throughout the hospital. As an OT within the Orthopaedic/Surgical Team team, you will work as part of the larger MDT to ensure high quality care, treatment and interventions. Specialising in pre and post operative assessments to ascertain discharge plans, you will have the specialist skills to make high risk decisions. You will also be supporting band 5's to develop these skills.
You will need to be able to work in an autonomous way to facilitate good communication and effectively link with multiple on site and external teams. As well as Ortho/Surgery you will have the chance to work with our exciting brand new Prevention of Deconditioning team and will also have the opportunity to be involved in service development and audit alongside our newly appointed Practice Development OT.
High quality clinical supervision is provided for all our staff. You will be supported with your professional development and training by the Team Managers and the Professional Lead OT.
About us
Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides hospital services to a growing population of around 700,000 people living across Bedfordshire and the surrounding areas across two busy hospital sites in Bedford and Luton. Both hospital sites offer key services such as A&E, Obstetrics-led Maternity and Paediatrics.
You will be joining a friendly, high performing Trust committed to ensuring the health and wellbeing of staff. As one of the largest NHS Trusts in our region you will have access to a programme of high quality training and development to help you grow your career.We have state-of-the art facilities placing us at the heart of cutting edge health care. The Trust continues to be committed to delivering the best patient care using the best clinical knowledge and technology available.
Please note that vacancies may close prior to the advertised closing date when sufficient number of applications have been received. Please ensure that you make your application as soon as possible.
All new staff will be subject to a probationary period covering their first six months in post. Travel between hospital sites may be required.
Please review all documents attached to this advert to ensure you familiarise yourself with all requirements of the job.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To be professionally and legally accountable for all aspects of your work including management of patient caseloads. Formulate and develop individual treatment programmes underpinned by sound knowledge of evidence-based practice and using a range of treatment options. Use clinical reasoning skills and evaluate outcomes of treatments to continually reassess and develop treatment programmes. Establish an accurate prognosis and recommend best course of treatments in addition to developing comprehensive treatment and discharge plans. Use a large range of verbal and non-verbal communication tools to communicate with patients to progress and gain participation with rehabilitation treatment programmes. This will include patients who have difficulties in understanding and communicating. To be responsible for management of clinical risk of your own caseload. To work within Trust and Royal College of Occupational Therapy (RCOT) guidelines, have a good working knowledge of national and local standards and monitor own and other working practices in liaison with Senior Occupational Therapists To be responsible for the safe and competent use of all equipment. To be responsible for maintaining own competencies through CPD activities. To be responsible for teaching student occupational therapists to graduate level on knowledge and skills within your department.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To be professionally and legally accountable for all aspects of your work including management of patient caseloads. Formulate and develop individual treatment programmes underpinned by sound knowledge of evidence-based practice and using a range of treatment options. Use clinical reasoning skills and evaluate outcomes of treatments to continually reassess and develop treatment programmes. Establish an accurate prognosis and recommend best course of treatments in addition to developing comprehensive treatment and discharge plans. Use a large range of verbal and non-verbal communication tools to communicate with patients to progress and gain participation with rehabilitation treatment programmes. This will include patients who have difficulties in understanding and communicating. To be responsible for management of clinical risk of your own caseload. To work within Trust and Royal College of Occupational Therapy (RCOT) guidelines, have a good working knowledge of national and local standards and monitor own and other working practices in liaison with Senior Occupational Therapists To be responsible for the safe and competent use of all equipment. To be responsible for maintaining own competencies through CPD activities. To be responsible for teaching student occupational therapists to graduate level on knowledge and skills within your department.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- HCPC Registered
- BSC Hons Occupational Therapy or Diploma in Occupational Therapy
Desirable
- Leadership course
- Manual handling qualification
Experience
Essential
- Experience within an acute NHS setting
- Understanding and ability to apply process OT
- Experience of MDT working
- Variety of relevant clinical experience
Desirable
- Supervising practice placements for O.T. students
- Previous audit experience
Knowledge
Essential
- IT literate including knowledge of Microsoft office tools
- Demonstrate a pragmatic approach to a range of unpredictable situations
- Professional and customer care skills
- Able to deal with variety of environmental factors
- Ability to prioritise work load and delegate tasks appropriately
Desirable
- Experience of services development
Other
Essential
- Communicating sensitive information to staff, patients or carers.
- Be able to undertake moderate physical effort throughout day
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- HCPC Registered
- BSC Hons Occupational Therapy or Diploma in Occupational Therapy
Desirable
- Leadership course
- Manual handling qualification
Experience
Essential
- Experience within an acute NHS setting
- Understanding and ability to apply process OT
- Experience of MDT working
- Variety of relevant clinical experience
Desirable
- Supervising practice placements for O.T. students
- Previous audit experience
Knowledge
Essential
- IT literate including knowledge of Microsoft office tools
- Demonstrate a pragmatic approach to a range of unpredictable situations
- Professional and customer care skills
- Able to deal with variety of environmental factors
- Ability to prioritise work load and delegate tasks appropriately
Desirable
- Experience of services development
Other
Essential
- Communicating sensitive information to staff, patients or carers.
- Be able to undertake moderate physical effort throughout day
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
