Senior Occupational Therapist - Medical Inpatients
Job Description
Job summary
We have an exciting opportunity for an Occupational Therapist to join the inpatient Medical Team at Ipswich Hospital. We are looking for an individual who is confident, professional and with the clinical skills required to manage a diverse, complex caseload within a dynamic environment, providing a high standard of Occupational Therapy in the acute setting. You will need to be able to demonstrate supervisory and leadership skills to support junior members of staff and students.
Opportunities work across multiple areas which include: Cardiac, Respiratory, Renal, Oncology, General Medical wards.
This position can also be considered as a Developmental role for those wishing to develop their skills from Band 5 to Band 6 level - NHS Preceptorship must be completed.
Main duties of the job
- Deliver a high standard OT service in designated clinical areas.
- Manage a defined complex caseload under the management of the Team Leader, using evidence based, client centred principles to assess, plan and evaluate OT interventions, ensuring compliance with HCPC, RCOT, CQC and Trust clinical and quality standards.
- To ensure as far as is reasonably practical the safety of the patients in your care.
- To supervise and assist in the development of junior OTs, non-qualified staff and students on placement.
- To undertake audit of both clinical practice and processes to increase efficiency and effectiveness.
- To be flexible in working in a 7 day service with extended hours in specific settings.
About us
We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients' own homes.
We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.
We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.
Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.
Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.
We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what's widely regarded as the world's best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.
If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.
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Job responsibilities
For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- oExperience of multi-disciplinary working.
- oComprehensive range of complex caseload management.
- oExperience of facilitating discharges from the acute setting and/or managing a caseload of patients within the community setting.
- oExperience of moving and handling skills including hoisting.
- oExperience of supervision and professional/clinical development of staff
- oExperience of working with therapy assistants/Health care assistants.
- oIn-service training and reflective learning.
- oEvidence of continuing professional development.
- oPrioritisation of workload.
- oMinimum of two Rotations
Desirable
- oParticipation in project Leadership.
- oParticipation in audits
- oParticipation in service development.
Qualifications
Essential
- oBSc / MSc Occupational Therapy
- oHCPC Registered Occupational Therapist
- oPractice Educator Course.
- Completion of Preceptorship tasks
Desirable
- oWheelchair assessor course.
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
East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Ipswich Hospital
Ipswich
IP4 5PD
