Band 6 Occupational Therapist - Older Persons Therapy Team
| Posting date: | 30 April 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £35,392 - £42,618 pa pro rata |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 30 May 2024 |
| Location: | Weston-super-Mare, BS23 4TQ |
| Company: | University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6269732/387-WD-4530-IB |
Summary
A Vacancy at University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust.
Adult Therapy Services
(Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy, Speech and Language Therapy and Nutrition and Dietetics)
Post –Band 6 Occupational Therapy in Older Persons Therapy (OPT)
Hours –0.6 WTE (22.5 hours per week) 2 bank holiday shifts per year and in the future 1 in 4 weekends.
Weston General Hospital is developing into a thriving hospital at the heart of the community.
This is a really exciting time to join Weston General Hospital, you will have the opportunity to develop and grow, personally and professionally, and use your passion to positively shape the future of health and care services within the local communities. Based at a small dynamic hospital in the seaside town of Weston-Super-Mare, and only a stones-throw from its two-mile long sandy beach, you will also benefit from being part of a large specialist NHS teaching trust with sites across Bristol and North Somerset.
Our friendly, supportive and proactive OPT team support Weston General Hospitals (WGH) OPT wards – Draycott and Kewstoke. Working closely with the ward and community multi-disciplinary teams (MDT) to provide high quality care for our patients. We are thrilled to launch the recruitment drive for dynamic, proactive, forward thinking therapist to join this team.
We are looking for:
• A highly motivated, proactive and innovative therapist, who is passionate about service delivery, development and improvement.
• A Therapist with strong clinical and developing leadership skills to work closely with the integrated therapy teams, the OPT and community MDT to deliver high quality care to our patients.
Senior clinical and non-clinical support structure is well established with not only the OPT band 7 therapists and the Pathway Lead, but also our fantastic OT and Physio OPT clinical specialists. In service training programmes and staff appraisal systems are in operation to help you develop to meet the demands of the post.
For further information please contact:
• Daisy Gold – Medicine Pathway Lead (Weston Site) 01934 647 102
University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW) is one of the largest acute Trusts in the country, bringing together a combined workforce of over 13,000 staff and over 100 different clinical services across 10 different sites, serving a core population of more than 500,000 people across South West England. UHBW has been rated by the CQC as ‘Good’ overall and our staff are proud to deliver excellent care to the people of Bristol, Weston and beyond. As a forward-thinking multi-award winning Trust and a digital exemplar committed to improving patient care, our world-leading research and innovations are having a positive local and global impact. Our hospitals are spread across Bristol and Weston, join us and you can enjoy the very best of both worlds; city living within a stone’s throw of the countryside or beside the seaside, both with easy access to all that the South West has to offer. UHBW is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them. Anonymous information will be used from your application in order to ensure we’re meeting our pledge.
For a more detailed job description, main responsibilities, and person specification, please refer to the job description document attached to this vacancy.
This advert closes on Thursday 16 May 2024
Adult Therapy Services
(Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy, Speech and Language Therapy and Nutrition and Dietetics)
Post –Band 6 Occupational Therapy in Older Persons Therapy (OPT)
Hours –0.6 WTE (22.5 hours per week) 2 bank holiday shifts per year and in the future 1 in 4 weekends.
Weston General Hospital is developing into a thriving hospital at the heart of the community.
This is a really exciting time to join Weston General Hospital, you will have the opportunity to develop and grow, personally and professionally, and use your passion to positively shape the future of health and care services within the local communities. Based at a small dynamic hospital in the seaside town of Weston-Super-Mare, and only a stones-throw from its two-mile long sandy beach, you will also benefit from being part of a large specialist NHS teaching trust with sites across Bristol and North Somerset.
Our friendly, supportive and proactive OPT team support Weston General Hospitals (WGH) OPT wards – Draycott and Kewstoke. Working closely with the ward and community multi-disciplinary teams (MDT) to provide high quality care for our patients. We are thrilled to launch the recruitment drive for dynamic, proactive, forward thinking therapist to join this team.
We are looking for:
• A highly motivated, proactive and innovative therapist, who is passionate about service delivery, development and improvement.
• A Therapist with strong clinical and developing leadership skills to work closely with the integrated therapy teams, the OPT and community MDT to deliver high quality care to our patients.
Senior clinical and non-clinical support structure is well established with not only the OPT band 7 therapists and the Pathway Lead, but also our fantastic OT and Physio OPT clinical specialists. In service training programmes and staff appraisal systems are in operation to help you develop to meet the demands of the post.
For further information please contact:
• Daisy Gold – Medicine Pathway Lead (Weston Site) 01934 647 102
University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW) is one of the largest acute Trusts in the country, bringing together a combined workforce of over 13,000 staff and over 100 different clinical services across 10 different sites, serving a core population of more than 500,000 people across South West England. UHBW has been rated by the CQC as ‘Good’ overall and our staff are proud to deliver excellent care to the people of Bristol, Weston and beyond. As a forward-thinking multi-award winning Trust and a digital exemplar committed to improving patient care, our world-leading research and innovations are having a positive local and global impact. Our hospitals are spread across Bristol and Weston, join us and you can enjoy the very best of both worlds; city living within a stone’s throw of the countryside or beside the seaside, both with easy access to all that the South West has to offer. UHBW is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them. Anonymous information will be used from your application in order to ensure we’re meeting our pledge.
For a more detailed job description, main responsibilities, and person specification, please refer to the job description document attached to this vacancy.
This advert closes on Thursday 16 May 2024
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