Occupational Therapist

Job summary

Gloucestershire Health & Care Foundation Trust provides care for approximately 600,000 adults, children, and young people across Gloucestershire, including community inpatient and outpatient services, public health nursing, community nursing and therapy staff.

We are currently seeking an enthusiastic, skilled Senior Occupational Therapist to join the Integrated Community Team (ICT) in the Stroud District. The ICT consists of Community Nursing, Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy and the Home First/Reablement Team. We work collaboratively with the wider MDT within our service and our Integrated Care System (ICS) partners to enable individuals to remain as well and independent as possible within their own homes.

In this role you will have opportunities to gain experience working in urgent community response work, falls response as well as the management of long-term conditions and housing adaptations. This team is ideal for exploring a broad spectrum of service areas in the community, allowing you build a diverse skill set and widen your practice experience.

As this is a community role a valid driving licence and a vehicle insured for business use is essential.

Main duties of the job

As a Senior Occupational Therapist, you will be participating in the leadership of the team and supporting junior members of staff to provide a high standard of care to patients in their own individualised environment through your example and guidance. In addition, Gloucestershire Health & Care NHS Foundation Trust Occupational Therapists are provided with opportunities, including: -

• Individualised development planning
• A supportive, diverse management structure
• Specialised training opportunities:
• Health Coaching
• Development of leadership skills through our THRIVE programme.
• Regular supervision and development of your own learning needs.

• Funded university accredited courses (relevant to post in line with individual Occupational Therapist's career progression wishes and agreed upon with line management)

To excel in this role, you will require excellent communication skills, the courage to make clinical decisions and a willingness to develop your potential and those in your team. You will require current HCPC registration and post-registration experience, preferably in a community setting though this is not essential.

The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.

About us

We have in excess of 5000 staff working over 50 sites, providing a diverse range of services. We strive to support an organisational culture that is welcoming, builds and celebrates inclusivity and diversity and provides a sense of belonging and trust.

The annual NHS Staff Surveygives our people the opportunity to tell us about their experience working at the Trust. For the 2023 survey just over 2800 colleagues gave us their views (58.5%). It was great to see from the results that colleagues are saying that:

• 89.7% believe they are making a positive difference to patients/service users;
• 73.3% would recommend the organisation as a place to work;
• 82.4% agree that care of patients and service users is the organisations priority;
• 76.7% would be happy with the standard of care for a friend or relative

Our results put us as 5th nationally as a Community, Mental Health and Learning Disabilities NHS Employer of Choice and 1st equal amongst all NHS Provider Trusts in the South West. However, we know we have more to do and will continue to drive forward our commitment to making GHC a Great Place to Work.

Employer details

Employer name

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Stroud ICT Locality - Stroud General Hospital

Bowbridge Lane

Stroud

GL5 2HY

Employer's website

https://www.ghc.nhs.uk/who-we-are/jobs/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Stroud ICT Locality - Stroud General Hospital

Bowbridge Lane

Stroud

GL5 2HY

Employer's website

https://www.ghc.nhs.uk/who-we-are/jobs/ (Opens in a new tab)

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