Specialist Occupational Therapist
| Posting date: | 02 July 2024 |
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| Salary: | £35,392.00 to £42,618.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £35392.00 - £42618.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 21 July 2024 |
| Location: | Preston/Chorley, PR2 9HT |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9438-24-0662 |
Summary
You will have excellent communication skills to enhance your working relationships and interactions with patients as well as a strong rehabilitation focus. When youre not treating patients youll have the opportunity to attend in service training both within our team and as part of Core Therapies such as the cognitive and perceptual training led by our Occupational Therapy team. You will also have the opportunity to build relationship across the wider Major Trauma Network and also attend external training and conferences to ensure you maintain up to date evidence based practice. We are continuously developing our service and this is something wed love you to be involved in with our team meetings being a great place for us all to share and expand our ideas. Alongside this youll have the opportunity to provide supervision and appraisal to our therapy assistants, students and band 5 OTs. There is also a band 6 Occupational Therapy forum that meets each month that provides a safe space for discussion with your peers as well as presentations and training from a range of speakers. We work in a fast paced environment and can promise that youll never be bored or short of things to do! This is a fabulous opportunity to improve and develop therapy provision across the trust and you will be fully supported by the appropriate clinical leads and professional leads in your clinical development. Duties to include, but not be limited to: To directly support the delivery of therapy to patients. To communicate and collaborate with all Core Therapies Service stakeholders To support personal and people development. To support service development and planning. To help to ensure the health, safety and security of users of the Integrated Therapies, self and colleagues To support the Clinical Governance and Quality agenda within Core Therapies. To support equality of opportunity and access within Core Therapies for both staff and patients. To provide and use information to support admin processes and patient care. We were proud to take part in a video series 24 hours and feature Core Therapies. Take a look to get to know us a whole lot better:https://vimeo.com/showcase/6691052 Our Core Therapies Workforce Lead would love to chat with you and can be contacted by emailingJodie.hamilton@lthtr.nhs.uk. Our organisation, clinical management structure and culture provide a supportive and innovative work environment where you can continue to develop your skills and knowledge and play a key role in the delivery of high quality, compassionate care. Come and join us we know you wont regret taking the leap.