Bank B7 Occupational Therapist Herts | Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 12 June 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £24.55 Weekly pay will include: Basic pay + HCAS + 12.07% Holiday pay |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 12 July 2025 |
| Location: | Hertfordshire, EN6 2RY |
| Company: | Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7277122/824-BANK-LIT1431 |
Summary
Job Purpose
3 x shifts a week – Thursday / Friday will be prioritised08:00-16:00 – start and finish time can be flexible as long as core therapy hours covered.
· To work as an active member of the Potters Bar inpatient team which specialises in the treatment and management of patients with multiple conditions. To support the OT Lead in the development of the service to ensure integrated working with partnership organisations.
· To provide highly specialised assessment and treatment for patients with a variety of conditions, and to provide expert advice, guidance and information to health and social care professionals, carers and relatives and other non-professionals.
· To provide a specialised resource for other Occupational Therapy staff and health care professionals across Hertfordshire
· To provide clinical supervision and competency attainment for Band 6 OT and rehab assistants ensuring that they have an up to date Professional Development plan annually, through the Continuing Professional Development structure
· To be responsible for Occupational Therapy student clinical placements, and provide training, supervision and teaching as required
· To participate in the recruitment and selection process in conjunction with other senior staff
· To be responsible for non clinical induction of assistants and staff as required
We provide community health services to more than two million people across eleven London boroughs and Hertfordshire.
Every day, our professionals provide high-quality healthcare in people's homes and local clinics, helping them to:
• stay well
• manage their own health with the right support
• avoid unnecessary trips to, or long stays in, hospital.
We support our patients at every stage of their lives, providing health visiting for new-born babies through to community nursing, stroke rehabilitation and palliative care for people towards the end of their lives.
Our vision: deliver great care closer to home.
Our mission: working together to give children a better start and adults greater independence
· To provide a comprehensive highly specialised assessment of all clients to establish their abilities, limitations, and needs with regard to physical, cognitive, perceptual, psychological, and social functioning.
· To agree on client centred goals and use of outcome measures in conjunction with the client, his/her family and multi-disciplinary professionals involved, and provide appropriate Occupational Therapy intervention and multidisciplinary treatment programmes.
· To establish clinical priority, determine needs and initiate a specialist treatment plan for patients referred for OT using evidence based practice and judgement of highly complex facts or situations, which require the analysis, interpretation, and comparison of a range of options.
· To be professionally and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of own work
· To set standards of good practise and to evaluate methods and effectiveness of therapy by ensuring that practise is evidence-based and through the use of outcome measures
· To assess for and prescribe specialist assistive equipment to enable the clients to maintain independence in activities of daily living which could include assessment and provision of specialist equipment or custom wheelchairs and seating devices.
This advert closes on Friday 27 Jun 2025