Peripatetic Senior Occupational Therapist

Oxford Health NHS Trust

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Job summary

We are seeking to recruit an Peripatetic Senior Occupational Therapist to join our Community Hospital team, where you will be part of a great team, working alongside our Allied Healthcare and Nursing Professionals to provide the highest standard of patient centre-care.

You must be highly motivated, enthusiastic with excellent interpersonal skills and have a passion for wanting to make a difference in therapeutic therapy to help aid our patients' recovery. With support and clinical supervision from the Clinical Lead, you will have opportunities to develop your clinical therapy skills.

You will be working closely within the therapy team and wider MDT members on the inpatient ward, to provide rehabilitation for our patients, who are mainly older with a wide variety of health conditions admitted from acute care, GP or community. You will manage a full clinical caseload providing timely assessments and care planning.

This role involves all elements of inpatient rehabilitation from initial assessments through to discharge and may include some follow up. You will be part of providing interventions in personal care, kitchen assessments, access visits, home visits and therapy discharges.

The starting post will be at City Community Hospital, however you will need to work or travel to another of our Community Hospital sites, therefore a flexible approach to working is essential.

Main duties of the job

To work within a generic or specialist rehabilitation team managing a caseload of clients providing a high quality, appropriate cost effective and efficient intensive rehabilitation service for adult patients in Oxfordshire outside of acute care empowering clients to manage their conditions effectively and maximise their potential to reach their goals of self management, access to their environment and return to previous occupations and involvement in the community.

About us

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust has been rated as Good by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).

We are a responsive and innovative Foundation Trust that places our values of Caring, Safe and Excellent at the heart of everything we do. We take great pride in our staff and believe that investing in you is key to us achieving our vision of outstanding care delivered by outstanding people.

We work with a wide range of partner organisations to deliver care and support to people in their own homes and from a number of hospitals and community bases. We focus on delivering care as close to home as possible.

Benefits of working for Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust include:

Excellent opportunities for career progression
27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, with an increase to 33 days with continuous service
NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers
Staff accommodation
Competitive pension scheme
Lease car scheme
Cycle to work scheme

Date posted

16 March 2023

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£33,706 to £40,588 a year Per annum, pro-rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

267-CH4900013-B

Job locations

City Community Hospital

Fulbrook Centre, Churchill Hospital

Oxford

OX3 7JU

Job description

Job responsibilities

To deliver a safe and effective rehabilitative patient care and discharge, working in partnership with colleagues in the multidisciplinary team within the community and acute sectors, supporting the efficient use of resources across the whole system delegating duties as appropriate.
To participate in the hands on delivery of patient care.
To work flexibly across localities and at weekends to ensure the requirements of the service contract are met.
To be visible and accessible to patients, relatives and colleagues in order to work effectively within the team.

See Job description/Person Specification for full details.

Job description

Job responsibilities

To deliver a safe and effective rehabilitative patient care and discharge, working in partnership with colleagues in the multidisciplinary team within the community and acute sectors, supporting the efficient use of resources across the whole system delegating duties as appropriate.
To participate in the hands on delivery of patient care.
To work flexibly across localities and at weekends to ensure the requirements of the service contract are met.
To be visible and accessible to patients, relatives and colleagues in order to work effectively within the team.

See Job description/Person Specification for full details.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

degree in occupational therapy
hcpc registration
3+ years experience

Desirable

community hospital/inpatient experience

Experience

Essential

previous NHS or health and social care experience
evidence of working within multi disciplinary team

Desirable

working knowledge of community services
evidence of supervising students/junior staff

CPD

Essential

evidence of current CPD

Desirable

completion of practice educators course

other essential

Essential

current uk driving licence
car available for work use

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

degree in occupational therapy
hcpc registration
3+ years experience

Desirable

community hospital/inpatient experience

Experience

Essential

previous NHS or health and social care experience
evidence of working within multi disciplinary team

Desirable

working knowledge of community services
evidence of supervising students/junior staff

CPD

Essential

evidence of current CPD

Desirable

completion of practice educators course

other essential

Essential

current uk driving licence
car available for work use

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).