Occupational Therapist
| Posting date: | 02 June 2025 |
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| Salary: | £29,970.00 to £36,483.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £29970.00 - £36483.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 16 June 2025 |
| Location: | Doddington, PE15 0UG |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9310-25-0537 |
Summary
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities To be professionally and legally accountable for all aspects for your own and delegated work. To work within codes of practice and professional guidelines. To undertake holistic assessment (including those with complex presentations and multi pathologies) making use of clinical reasoning skills. To use evidence-based practice, to ensure clinical care is effective and appropriate. To promote independence and wherever possible to avoid hospital admission and reduce inpatient length of stay to ensure those patients receive the appropriate care in the most appropriate setting. To identify patient needs, agree goals and provide appropriate therapy interventions. Provide adaptive equipment, rehabilitation programmes, and make recommendations for both major adaptations and minor adaptations in line with current legislation. Organise and manage own time, delegating work appropriately. Contribute to risk assessments and health and safety assessments and including immediately reporting any changes/newly identified risks. To demonstrate the importance of gaining patient and carer consent in allinterventions. To ensure that accurate and timely written records are kept which comply with the Trust policy and HCPC guidance, reporting on any issues as appropriate.