Band 6 Occupational Therapist

Job summary

Job Title: Occupational Therapist 84122

Grade: Band 6

Trust: Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Location: St Marks Hospital, Maidenhead SL6 6DU

Ward/Dept: Henry Tudor Ward

Hours: 37.5 Hours p/w

Shift Pattern: Mon-Fri 8:00-16:00

Pay Rates Day: £25.01 (exc Holiday Pay)

Why might this job interest you?

Are you an experienced Occupational Therapist who is passionate about delivering premium healthcare? We have a new and exciting opportunity for a band 6 Occupational Therapist to join the team based in Berkshire.

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Band 6 OT to join our amazing integrated therapy team, where you will assist in the delivery of a high-quality Occupational Therapy service. Under the guidance of Senior Occupational Therapists, you will assess and manage a caseload of varied and complex needs.

Main duties of the job

Manage a caseload of complex cases of all ages relating to mobility, pressure and postural care and often in combination with communication, challenging, cognitive and/or perceptual difficulties with support from senior staff as needed.

Formulate individualised action plans based on the assessment findings and clinical reasoning; prescribe appropriate specialist equipment using options from a range of equipment.

Communicate complex and sensitive information and advice in a sensitive and empathic manner to service users, carers and professionals, including information about diagnosis and prognosis, to find ways of enabling the information to be understood.

Using evidence-based/patient centred principles to assess, plan, implement and evaluate interventions, as well as responsibility for managing and transferring an individual patients ongoing care to other professions and agencies as appropriate.

Identify service developments, needs, contribute to the planning, development and evaluation of the service and have responsibility for defined projects.

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