Senior Stroke Occupational Therapist | East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 05 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £35,392 - £42,618 per annum pro rata |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 05 May 2024 |
| Location: | Stevenage, SG1 4AB |
| Company: | East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6146174/361-PLN-6146174 |
Summary
We are recruiting for a Senior Stroke Occupational Therapist who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.
We are delighted to offer an exciting opportunity for a permanent Band 6 Occupational Therapist with neurological experience to join our Stroke therapy service at the Lister Hospital.
The stroke service is well established and respected within the Trust with new therapy leadership and ambitious plans for development.
The static Occupational Therapist post will be central to this development and there will be opportunities for clinical and leadership development.
If you are dynamic, proactive and passionate about quality stroke provision and the role of therapy, we would love to hear from you!
Our Values are Include, Respect and Improve. It is important that you understand and refer to our values during your recruitment process and beyond!
The main duties of this role include assessment and treatment of patients within the HASU and ASU at the Lister Hospital, providing neurological support to the therapy team within the hospital and maintaining national therapy guidelines relating to stroke.
As a static senior Occupational Therapist, you will also be required to support and train junior and support staff, mentor students and take part in in-service training and service development initiatives.
At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general & specialist services we provide & our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible & innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.
We run the following hospitals:
• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
• Hertford County, Hertford
• Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood
We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation; our staff & patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.
We understand that finding and starting a new job is an important life decision. If you need reasonable adjustments for a disability, or a life event, such as menopause - so that we can consider your application fairly & to get the best out of you during the selection process, please let us know.
We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. Employees are entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns & we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made & considered formally, & will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.
This advert closes on Friday 19 Apr 2024