Occupational Therapist

Job summary

Community Inpatient Occupational Therapist

Band 5

37.5 hrs full time .

Gosport War Memorial Hospital

We are seeking enthusiastic and dedicated Occupational Therapist to join our dynamic and friendly inpatient rehabilitation team at Gosport War Memorial Hospital.

You will work alongside a dynamic multidisciplinary team to deliver high quality care and rehabilitation. You will use your skills and experience to provide individualised rehabilitation programmes to patients with a range of functional and rehabilitative needs, who are either recovering from an acute episode of care or step up from the community. Focus will be on innovative rehabilitation programmes that enable safe discharge with ongoing plans being met through our community integrated enablement services.

You will have a clear understanding of patients with long term conditions and should be able to demonstrate a high level of clinical assessment and reasoning, as well as being able to demonstrate experience of rehabilitation through group work and individualised programmes.

You will need to be confident and assertive with excellent personal skills and have the ability to demonstrate these in a pressurised environment.

There are CPD opportunities around service development as well as structured supervision, peer support groups and appraisals.

Further enquiries and informal visits are welcome please contact

Laura Riches

Band 6 Occupational Therapist

laura.riches@southernhealth.nhs.uk

02382 318178

Main duties of the job

ROLE PURPOSE

*To provide a professional Occupational Therapy/Physiotherapy service to an allocated caseload. To assess clients, plan treatment / interventions and maintain associated records

About us

Are you committed to providing remarkable care and service?Are you passionate about helping people and want to make a difference every day?We want to meet you!

Southern Health is one of the largest Foundation Trusts in the UK, specialising in mental health, adult and child community health and learning disabilities. We are committed to promoting the welfare and safeguarding of children, young people and adults at risk of abuse and neglect through our 6,500 strong workforce.

Southern Health has over 300 sites across the county and we serve 1.5 million people throughout all stages of their lives. Our aim is to work alongside the people we support (and our health and care partners) to deliver the best possible care and constantly improve.

Here at SHFT we have so much to be proud of:

• Working as a team and supporting each other, we put patients and our staff at the heart of everything we do.
• We have a skilled and diverse workforce and are committed to our staff development, offering bespoke training packages, leadership pathways and career opportunities.
• We offer a variety of benefits such as an amazing pension scheme, generous annual leave, Childcare Choices scheme, many discounts (Blue Light card, The Company Shop, NHS Staff Discounts, cycle to work scheme) and much more.

Come to work with us, together we will provide outstanding treatment and care to improve lives.

Employer details

Employer name

Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Gosport War Memorial Hospital

Bury Road

Gosport

Hampshire

PO12 3PW

Employer's website

https://www.southernhealth.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Gosport War Memorial Hospital

Bury Road

Gosport

Hampshire

PO12 3PW

Employer's website

https://www.southernhealth.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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