Apprentice Occupational Therapist

Job summary

UHCW NHS Trust is looking to recruit an Apprentice Occupational Therapist to sit within our Inpatient Therapy department.

As a development role, you will attend University to complete the Occupational Therapy degree, whilst working as a Therapy Assistant. This allows you to gain your clinical skills and knowledge whilst training to become an Occupational Therapist.

You will initially start as a Therapy Technician (Band 3). To recognise your development and progress with therapy competencies, and clinical knowledge and skills, at the half-way point of your course, we will look to transition you into a Band 4 role. This will allow you greater autonomy and to work at a higher level. On completion of the degree, you will become a registered Occupational Therapist and will transition into a Band 5 Rotational Occupational Therapy post.

The University that you attend will depend on the successful candidate. The University options include: Coventry, Derby, Northampton.

N.B - if you are already in a Band 4 Therapy Assistant Practitioner post, please contact me for further details regarding pay / banding and progression.

Main duties of the job

The Apprentice Occupational Therapist is a developmental role. The Occupational Therapy training programme combines and integrates both academic and work-based learning through close collaboration between employers and education providers. An Apprentice Occupational Therapist will be based, as an employee in the organisation, in a specific setting, but may also experience working in alternative settings in order that they gain a wide appreciation of many health and care contexts and are able to fulfil all the requirements of the programme.

The Apprentice will complete Band 3 Therapy Competencies within a specified timeframe. On completion of these, they will work toward your Band 4 Therapy Competencies, at which point, pay will be adjusted to reflect increased knowledge, skills and behaviours.

The apprentice will work within the Inpatient Therapy service as a Therapy Technician while they attend University and progress towards achieving an Occupational Therapy BSc level 6 qualification at which point they will be offered a B5 Rotational Occupational Therapist position within the Inpatient Therapy service.

Closing Date: Please be advised that this job advert will close as soon as sufficient applications have been received. Please apply for this job as soon as you can, if interested.

About us

University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, rated as good by the Care Quality Commission, is one of the largest teaching Trusts in the UK.

We are extremely proud of our employees across our hospital sites, with high quality patient care at the heart of everything we do.

Boasting some of the most modern facilities in Western Europe, the Trust is renowned for being at the forefront of research and innovation as part of its blossoming reputation as a worldwide leader in healthcare.

We are proud to be recognised as a Pathway to Excellence designated organisation - please click the link for further details about this prestigious award. Pathway To Excellence - University Hospitals Coventry & Warwickshire (uhcw.nhs.uk)

By joining our exciting journey, you will form part of a passionate, talented team and will be able to access a wide range of learning and development opportunities. There has never been a better time to join our team.

The Trust is committed to building an organisation that makes full use of the talents, skills, experience, and different perspectives available in our diverse society. We want everyone to feel they are respected, valued, can achieve their potential and receive the most appropriate and relevant care. We will create an environment where the equality and human rights principles of fairness, respect, equality, dignity and autonomy are promoted and are part of the organisation's core values.