Senior Orthopaedic Occupational Therapist | Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 11 Tachwedd 2025 |
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| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £38,682 - £46,580 pro rata per annum |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 11 Rhagfyr 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Swindon, SN3 6BB |
| Cwmni: | The Great Western Hospitals NHS FT |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 7609486/249-7330915-3 |
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An exciting opportunity has arisen for aBand 6 Occupational Therapist to join our dynamicOrthopaedic Therapy team at Great Western Hospital. This is a chance to make a real impact in patient care while developing your professional skills in a supportive environment.
As part of our integrated team of Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, and Rehabilitation Assistants, you will:
• Provide therapy to Orthopaedic patients across bothElective andTrauma wards.
• Deliverspecialist care to a wide variety of patients, including those withmajor trauma, spinal injuries, and head injuries.
• Supervise and mentor Band 5 staff, Rehabilitation Assistants, and students.
• Contribute toservice development and improvement projects, helping shape the future of our therapy services.
What We’re Looking For
• Essential: Experience working in Orthopaedics.
• A passion for delivering high-quality, patient-centred care.
• Strong leadership and teaching skills to support junior staff and students.
• Enthusiasm for service development and innovation
We welcome applications from:
• ExperiencedBand 5 Occupational Therapists ready to step up into a Band 6 role.
• EstablishedBand 6 therapists seeking to further develop their skills and expertise.
Manage and be responsible for a complex clinical caseload using an interdisciplinary, patient focused, rehabilitative approach for a broad range of conditions, in all areas where there are orthopedic patients.
To foster good communication and develop strong networks with other members of the interdisciplinary team, multi-disciplinary team members, carers and external agencies concerned with the management of the patient.
To identify service development needs and implement the planning, development and evaluation of the service, and hold responsibility for defined projects.
To be able to stand in for the Team Leader in their absence if required.
To participate in the orthopedic weekend rota.
Our STAR values – Service, Teamwork, Ambition and Respect – are a golden thread running through everything we do. These values serve as a guiding principle, driving us towards our vision of delivering great joined up services to our local community. Whether at home, in the community, or within the hospital, our goal is to empower individuals to lead independent and healthier lives.
To act as a specialist clinician within the Orthopaedic Occupational Therapy Service and carry a complex diverse case load which may include traumatic brain injury, Intensive Care, multiple trauma, complex children’s surgery, orthopaedic, musculo-skeletal, surgical, medical and psychiatric conditions.
To assess the need for and to carry out assessment of the home environment making recommendations and referral for adaptations or equipment provision i.e. an environmental assessment without patient, a home assessment with patient, follow-up visits and pre-operative home visits for planned surgery.
To devise Occupational Therapy treatment plans and goals in collaboration with the patient, relatives, their carers and the Multidisciplinary Team and Interdisciplinary Team.
To have a good understanding of the effect of disability, to be able to educate patient, relatives and carers in issues relating to their diagnosis/prognosis and promote an understanding of its functional
implications and the adaptation required.
Please see attached Job Description for full details of this role.
This advert closes on Tuesday 25 Nov 2025
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