Band 4 Recreational Therapist

Ministry of Defence (Defence Medical Services)

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Job summary

Here at Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre (DMRC) Stanford Hall, we are an inclusive and dedicated organisation working to provide high quality rehabilitation to injured service personnel.

We are looking for a Recreational Therapist to complete our large multidisciplinary Complex Trauma team. The role is to support our patients to engage with recreational and leisure activities. This facilitates the regaining of functional skills through social and recreational activities, in order to improve the patients overall quality of life. Our patients have a wide range of injuries including fractures, amputation and spinal cord injury but you may also provide support to other teams including those treating neurological illness or injury.

Benefit of working for this organisation include:

Free Parking
Access to Gym and Pool
Onsite Shop and Lunch Facilities
Beautiful Grounds
NHS Pension

This role is a 37.5 hour per week.

Main duties of the job

The Recreational Therapists role is to be responsible to support the provision of rehabilitation to service personnel with complex clinical needs across DMRC.

The post holder will work autonomously without direct supervision but under the guidance of a registered Occupational Therapist.
Be accountable for your delegated clinical caseload of patients who will have a wide range of needs
Organise and deliver a wide range of activities with groups and individuals
Have effective communication with patients and colleagues demonstrating the ability to negotiate, reassure and motivate
Provide support to the Occupational Therapists and other team members in the delivery and development of a quality service.

About us

Our success depends on our people, our Whole Force regular and reservist military, civil servants and contractors, all working as one, working together seamlessly to deliver for us.

Our civil servants are a central part of this Whole Force, developing strategy, making policy, supporting ministerial decision-making and Parliamentary processes. In fact, with over 2,000 different roles working across 650 sites around the world, now really is an excellent time to join one of the largest, most exciting departments in government.

The Ministry of Defence is committed to attracting and retaining people from across the full range of backgrounds and enabling flexible ways of working as the norm. We offer maternity, adoption or shared parental leave of up to 26 weeks full pay followed by 13 weeks of statutory pay and a further 13 weeks unpaid, and paternity leave of 2 weeks full pay.

In return, you can expect a department that helps you learn and develop that recognises your expertise and contribution, both as an individual and part of a team.

If you've ever wanted to do more, see more, go further or be better, we have roles in more professions and vocations than ever before. Let's see where your future will take you, together.

Date posted

02 November 2022

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 4

Salary

£22,549 to £24,882 a year per annum, pro-rata for part time *award pay pending

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

K0003-22-1073

Job locations

DMRC Stanford Hall

Stanford on Soar

Loughborough

LE12 5QW

Job description

Job responsibilities

Duties and responsibilities include but are not limited to:

Planning and organising recreational therapy activities for patients in small groups and/ or individual basis.
Ensuring patients are centred in recreational activities which are incorporated into the formal timetable of patient's treatment programme.
To liaise with the referring Occupational Therapist within the team to highlight the progress attained in therapy sessions.
Supporting other members of the interdisciplinary team as required dependent on case load constraints and allowances.
Arranging and leading recreational activities for patients, being responsible for ensuring appropriate behaviour.
Maintaining good relationships with the team, patients, carers and personnel from other Ministry of Defence (MOD) and external agencies.

The Ministry of Defence is committed to providing a safe and healthy working environment for its staff which includes educating them on the benefits of not smoking, protecting them from the harmful effects of second-hand smoke and supporting those who want to give up smoking. Under the Smoke-Free Working Environment policy, Smoking and the use ofall tobacco products (including combustible and chewing tobacco products) will not be permitted anywhere in the Defence working environment by 31st December 2022. The policy is Whole Force and includes all Defence personnel, contractors, visitors and other non-MOD personnel. All applicants seeking, considering, or accepting employment with the Ministry of Defence should be aware of this policy and that it is already in place at a number of Defence Establishments.

There will be no reimbursement for any travel expenses for the interview.

All employees joining Ministry of Defence who are new to the Civil Service will be subject to a 6-month probation period (unless otherwise advised) effective from the employment start date. Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check.

If found successful for this position, you will be required to provide evidence of your immunity to Hepatitis B. Failure to provide evidence of your immunity may result in the offer of employment being withdrawn.

Access to the NHS pension scheme is available to the successful candidate.

There is no requirement to deploy as this is met by our uniformed personnel, but you will form the continuity of care required by our patients when based at home.

Please pay particular attention to the attached Job Description and Person Specification, which outlines the role requirements in further detail.

The selection at sift stage will be based on your application. At interview, you will be tested against the following Technical Skills:

NHS Core NHSC1 Communication
NHS Core NHSC2 Personal & People Development
NHS Core NHSC3 Health, Safety & Security
NHS Core NHSC4 Service Improvement
NHS Core NHSC5 Quality
NHS Core NHSC6 Equality and Diversity
NHS Health & Wellbeing HWB6 Assessment & Treatment Planning
NHS Health & Wellbeing HWB7 Interventions & Treatment

The successful applicant will have contact with patients and service users. In-line with the NHS England approach, MOD is in the process of making full vaccination a condition of deployment for its healthcare workers employed across the UK. In order to comply with our duty of care, we require our staff to have the COVID vaccine and we will ask for proof of vaccination status during the recruitment process. Please see the attached further information document for full details.

This post does not offer any assistance with relocation allowances.

The successful applicant will have contact with patients and service users. During the COVID-19 pandemic, it has been necessary to take significant steps to protect the health and safety of our staff, patients and service users. MOD policy remains aligned with the government position that vaccines are the best way to protect yourself and others from the risk of getting seriously ill/dying from COVID-19 and reducing the risk of spreading COVID-19 to others. We therefore encourage all our employees and prospective ones to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 subject to any exemptions that may apply. Detail concerning the options available for vaccination against COVID-19, along with information on risks and side effects is available from: Coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccines - NHS (www.nhs.uk) to enable individuals to make an informed decision.

We encourage all our employees and prospective ones to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 subject to any exemptions that may apply. Please see the attached further information document for full details.

As a result of the changes to the UK immigration rules which came into effect on 1 January 2021, the Ministry of Defence will only offer sponsorship for a skilled worker visa under the points-based system, where a role has been deemed to be business critical

The role currently being advertised has not been assessed as business critical and is therefore NOT open to applications from those who will require sponsorship under the points-based system. Should you apply for this role and be found to require sponsorship, your application will be rejected, and any provisional offer of employment withdrawn.

This vacancy is part of the A Great Place to Work for Veterans initiative, <a href=https://www.gov.uk/government/news/making-the-civil-service-a-great-place-to-work-for-veterans/>Making-the-civil-service-a-great-place-to-work-for-veterans</a>

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equality of opportunity. There is a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

If you need to advise us that you need additional help or reasonable adjustments for the recruitment process, please contact dbscivpers-sgdmsresourcingteam@mod.gov.uk.