Band 6 Occupational Therapist

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 6Occupational Therapist to join our multidisciplinary team at North Swindon District Centre (The Orbital Centre), SN25 4DT. This role offers a varied and rewarding caseload, enabling you to use your clinical expertise to deliver person-centred, evidence-based occupational therapy interventions across the community.

As an Occupational Therapist, you will: provide occupational therapy assessment, treatment and advice to patients in their home environment or outpatient setting in order to promote and facilitate patient independence and well-being, within professional guidelines and protocols.

This is an exciting time to join us as we work in collaboration with local services to enhance rehabilitation in a seamless and integrated way.

If you're ready to take on this meaningful and fulfilling role, we'd love to hear from you!

This is a part-time, fixed term role working 32 hours per week on a 6 month contract.

Base:

The Orbital, North Swindon District Centre SN25 4AN

Main duties of the job

• Provide an evidence-based occupational therapy service of a high standard, to patients in a community setting by undertaking comprehensive assessments, reassessments, care planning, rehabilitation and therapeutic care and support. This will involve using clinical reasoning skills and knowledge of evidence-based practice to inform the appropriate intervention and developing comprehensive discharge plans from the service.
• Provide professional advice and guidance to the team and others. This will involve contributing to the day-to-day management of the team, data gathering, analysis, recording and reporting, interpreting and recommended further courses of action.
• Allocate, supervise, and direct on-going occupational therapy programmes to patients provided by therapy support workers as required.
• Be responsible for the safe and competent use of equipment and appliances used by patients and ensure that members of the patients family, other MDT colleagues, carers and students attain competency prior to use.

Please see the job description attached for a full list of responsibilities.

About us

As a Band 6 Occupational Therapist you will be part of our valued team in our BSW Service, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• Band 6 AfC Salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life's emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
• Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our Outstanding learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
• An open, just culture where you're encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
• The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding good or outstanding ratings from the Care Quality Commission

Employer details

Employer name

HCRG Care Group

Address

HCRG Care Group

Swindon

Wiltshire

SN25 4DT

Employer's website

https://www.hcrgcaregroup.com/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

HCRG Care Group

Address

HCRG Care Group

Swindon

Wiltshire

SN25 4DT

Employer's website

https://www.hcrgcaregroup.com/ (Opens in a new tab)

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