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Specialist Frailty Occupational Therapist | University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 20 May 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £37,338 - £44,962 pa/pro rata |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 19 June 2025 |
| Location: | Poole, BH15 2JB |
| Company: | Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7225840/153-SP04391-B |
Summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for you to join our Older Peoples Therapy Team as a Senior Occupational Therapist.
This is a fantastic opportunity where you will be supported to enhance your clinical practice and develop extended skills in frailty, whilst working alongside our highly regarded and innovative Older Person's Team in the hospital. This role will encompass the use of excellent clinical and leadership skills, encouraging you to work holistically developing yourself and colleagues. You will receive regular supervision and training and have responsibility for the supervision of others and contribute to the team training programme.
This post will also provide you with opportunities to develop managerial skills and contribute to and lead on service development within the team and wider services.
This role requires: HCPC Registration
Base Location: Poole Hospital (moving to Royal Bournemouth site in 2026)
Interview Date: TBC
You will have the opportunity to develop specialised skills in frailty in a fast paced environment. Your caseload will enable you to promote optimising recovery with early assessment of occupational performance in daily living activities. Assessment and education of optimal moving and handling with appropriate equipment provision and assessment of cognition will be intrinsic to this role. You will need to work in partnership with health and community providers in the county to enable Discharge to Assess and Home First Principles.
This role will provide you with the opportunity to support patients within the acute hospital and within their own homes to ensure they receive the right service in the best place for them.
For full duties of the post please see the job description.
To be successful in securing this post, you will have:
• 2years experienceworking as an Occupational Therapistcovering core rotations
• Experience working at a junior level within the NHS is essential
• Willing toparticipatein 7dayworking on a rota basis
• Ability to drive, hold a cleandriverslicence and have access to a car for work purposes
Our values define who we are as #TeamUHD. They underpin everything we do now and in the future. They define how we treat our patients, visitors, and each other, our valued team mates and colleagues.
UHD are investing in services across the Trust, with many being transformed and developed following merger and the New Hospital Programme.
In some cases this means that a services may move site this year or next, either temporarily or long term. Recruiting Managers interviewing for this role will be happy to answer any specific questions that you have at interview.
Please note if the role or service is relocated as part of a planned move, employees will not be eligible for excess mileage reimbursement. Travel from the postholder's home to the new work base will be considered a normal commute. Any other changes not related to this relocation will be managed according to the relevant Trust or National terms and conditions.
Please note Therapies have a planned move to align with planned emergency sites in Winter 2025.
To understand the role in more detail please read the full job description and person specification documents which are attached to this advert.
This advert closes on Monday 9 Jun 2025
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