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Specialist Occupational Therapist | Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Manylion swydd
Dyddiad hysbysebu: 23 Awst 2024
Cyflog: Heb ei nodi
Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: £46,148 - £52,809 per annum
Oriau: Rhan Amser
Dyddiad cau: 22 Medi 2024
Lleoliad: Luton, LU4 0DZ
Cwmni: Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Math o swydd: Cytundeb
Cyfeirnod swydd: 6573974/418-DTO3974-SJ

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We are looking for a friendly, enthusiastic and innovative Occupational Therapist to join our dynamic team. We have have an opportunity to appoint a fixed term (or secondment opportunity) occupational therapist within our orthopaedic and surgical therapy team.

If you are looking to specialise in Orthopaedics ,Trauma and Surgery we would love to hear from you. We would encourage applications from band 6’s looking for progression and Band 7’s looking to further develop within these specialities. We have a well-established team with senior therapists, who can support you in this role and encourage essential professional development. As long as you have a willingness to learn and adapt to change, we can support you!

This post will allow you to develop a wide range of clinical, managerial, organisational, teaching and supervision skills. You will play an active role in audits and service development. We offer a well-established supervision and appraisal structure. We encourage individual progression within the team and have a firm commitment to in service training, CPD as well as supporting staff to attend relevant external courses and conferences.

You will be required to work with other qualified and non-qualified staff to provide a seven day service including Bank Holidays, with a commitment of 1 in 4 weekends with days off in lieu. The service provides cover 8:00-20:00 Mon- Friday and 8:00-16:00 at weekends
• Provide a high standard of specialist assessments and treatments for patients across our service areas.
• Use specialist knowledge to make comprehensive referrals for patients moving from the acute setting into the community.
• Use strong interpersonal skills to communicate often complex information, to a variety of people including the MDT, community services and service users.
• Provide supervision and support to members of the therapy team
• Plan and motivate the team to be involved in and deliver on quality improvement projects to contribute to service development.
• Hold shared responsibility with other Band 7 therapy staff in the team to manage the team, including sickness, annual leave, rotas, performance to standards, supervision, engagement.

Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides hospital services to a growing population of around 700,000 people living across Bedfordshire and the surrounding areas across two busy hospital sites in Bedford and Luton. Both hospital sites offer key services such as A&E, Obstetrics-led Maternity and Paediatrics. You will be joining a friendly, high performing Trust committed to ensuring the health and wellbeing of staff. As one of the largest NHS Trusts in our region you will have access to a programme of high quality training and development to help you grow your career. The Trust continues to be committed to delivering the best patient care using the best clinical knowledge and technology.

Our Values

We not only recruit based on qualifications and experience - we recruit individuals who demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our Trusts core values. We achieve this by using values based recruitment. We are dedicated to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone, we are committed to promoting equality and diversity, and creating a culture that values differences.

Please note that vacancies may close prior to the advertised closing date when sufficient number of applications have been received. All new staff will be subject to a probationary period covering first 6 months in post. Travel between hospital sites may be required. Please review all documents attached to ensure you familiarize yourself with all requirements of the job.

Please see the attached job description for details.
• Provide a high standard of specialist assessments and treatments for patients across our service areas.
• Use specialist knowledge to make comprehensive referrals for patients moving from the acute setting into the community.
• Use strong interpersonal skills to communicate often complex information, to a variety of people including the MDT, community services and service users.
• Provide supervision and support to members of the therapy team
• Plan and motivate the team to be involved in and deliver on quality improvement projects to contribute to service development.
• Hold shared responsibility with other Band 7 therapy staff in the team to manage the team, including sickness, annual leave, rotas, performance to standards, supervision, engagement.


This advert closes on Friday 6 Sep 2024