Occupational Therapist

Job description

Job responsibilities

Job Title: Occupational Therapist

Grade: Band 5/6

Ward/Dept: Adult Inpatient Therapy Team

Location: Petersfield Community Hospital, Swan Street, GU32 3LB

Trust: Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust

Working Hours: 37.5 hpw Monday-Friday

Shift Pattern: 8:30-16:30

Pay Rate: starting £17.69/£21.80

The Role

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 5 or 6 Occupational Therapist to join our Therapy Team at Petersfield Community Hospital. The post holder will be providing advanced clinical and professional Occupational Therapy/Physiotherapy to the Therapy Team or Community Hospital Team, and to provide support to the team leaders.

The Trust/Ward/Department

Southern Health provides a wide range of mental health, physical health and learning disability services for people across Hampshire through a team over 6,500 staff who work from over 300 sites. Our aim is to work alongside the people we support and our health and care partners, to constantly improve and deliver the best possible care, providing the population of 1.5 million with care available for every stage of their lives.

We are a University Hospital Trust, this means we have been nationally recognised as being dedicated to providing high quality, holistic and evidence-based care. It also means we commit significant resources and investment in research and have a keen focus on the educational development and training of our current and future workforces.

The Responsibilities

If you are successful in your application to this post, you will be expected to manage and deliver on the responsibilities outlined below as well as those not included here, call today to discuss further:

• Undertake assessments of patients with diverse and complex conditions, providing a clinical diagnosis, development, and delivery of individualised treatment programmes.
• To support the case management process by providing expert clinical advice and therapy to patients with a variety of complex conditions
• To be skilled in assessing and treating a range of complex factors relating to the patients condition, diagnosis and prognosis
• Negotiate and agree with the patient, carers and other care professionals, individual roles and responsibilities with actions to be taken and outcomes to be achieved, referring on to other services or professionals as appropriate.
• Undertake comprehensive assessment of patients including those with diverse and highly complex presentations and multiple pathologies, using clinical and analytical skills to provide an accurate assessment of their condition

To be successful in applying for this role you will need:

• Enhanced DBS
• Degree level qualification or equivalent
• To be registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)
• Experience of working as part of a multidisciplinary team
• NHS experience
• Good communication skills

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Relevant degree or equivalent

HCPC Registered

Essential Criteria

Essential

Enhanced DBS

In addition to experience, all Qualified roles will be required to provide evidence of

• Relevant Qualifications
• Registration with the relevant Registration Body if applicable.

About us

Here at NHS Professionals, we run England's largest NHS staff bank and are experts at putting people in places to care. Every year we help thousands of dedicated and highly skilled NHS workers enjoy better career opportunities, more flexible shifts, and a healthier work-life balance across our partnered Trusts.

Career Progression access to Learning & Development opportunities, so that you can take on new roles and challenges

Work-life Balance flexible shifts, committed shifts, wellbeing resources and build paid annual leave

Opportunity & Access over 50 partner NHS Trusts to give you the flexibility of choice to work how and where you want

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

NHS Professionals Limited

Employer's website

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

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Degree level qualification or equivalent
• To be registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)

Experience

Essential

• To be registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)
• Experience of working as part of a multidisciplinary team
• NHS experience
• Good communication skills

Additional Criteria

Essential

• Enhanced DBS

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

NHS Professionals Limited

Address

Petersfield Community Hospital

Swan St

Petersfield

GU32 3LB

Employer's website

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