Assistant Pathway Coordinator

1 week ago

Tunbridge Wells, Kent, United Kingdom Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust Full time

Job overview

Are you looking for a change of area or simply need more flexibility to manage your work/life balance? Then working on the bank may be just the answer.

If you are looking for flexible work that can fit around your other commitments and are dedicated to providing the very best care for patients then we would like to hear from you.

You will need to be a qualified Occupational Therapist and have good communication skills, initiative, and be flexible. In return the role can give you:-

·A sense of pride and achievement

·The opportunity to get to know the people on your caseload

·Induction & mandatory training

·Opportunities to work across various departments and sites, gaining invaluable knowledge and experience

·Support from senior therapists including supervision & in-service training.

Main duties of the job

The service currently operates seven days a week on a planned shift pattern. This brings opportunities for flexible working arrangements within your contracted hours and enhanced rates of pay for weekend and bank holiday work.

The department offers a friendly, supportive working environment which actively supports Continuing Professional Development, through an established appraisal system, in-service training, and post graduate library facilities.

You will be required to commit to multi-disciplinary working, a proactive approach to personal and professional development and well-developed organisational skills.

You should be HCPC registered, have post graduate experience as an Occupational Therapist and be able to travel between hospital sites in a timely manner if required.

Working for our organisation

Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust is a large acute hospital Trust in the county of Kent.

The Trust provides a full range of general hospital services and some areas of specialist complex care to around 760,000 people living in the south part of West Kent and the north part of East Sussex.

The Trust's core catchment areas are Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells and their surrounding boroughs. We work from two main clinical sites: Maidstone Hospital and Tunbridge Wells Hospital at Pembury. Tunbridge Wells Hospital opened in 2011 and provides single rooms with en-suites for all in-patients – the first of its kind in the country.

We employ more than 7,000 full and part-time staff in a huge range of clinical and non-clinical roles across both of our hospital sites.

Would you like to work flexibly? In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

You will be expected to attend the Trust's Induction Programme for RNs, RMs and ODPs (which starts on the first day of employment). The programme is full-time (please contact the programme lead if this is problematic: ), lasts for two weeks and will involve travelling to both Trust sites. The programme includes supernumerary shifts in the clinical area and classroom-based study days which run from 9am to 5pm.

Please note that appointment to this post will be subject to a satisfactory Disclosure & Barring Service Check at enhanced level. (Enhanced level now includes regulated checks against vulnerable adults and children)

We are passionate in supporting our staff to develop and have great opportunities for career progression. We take equality and diversity seriously and seek to empower all diverse groups within our trust. We seek to develop a culture where diversity in all its forms is celebrated. We are committed to ensuring that women are empowered to work at all levels of management and that working patterns are as flexible as possible giving all members of staff opportunity to flourish in using their skills for our patients. We work across our trust to enable those who consider themselves to have a disability both visible and invisible to have access to all they need to thrive in their work environment. We work with Stonewall to embed an inclusive and accepting culture for all lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender staff. We have 78 nationalities working in our trust and we are proud of this. We are active in embracing the ethnic and cultural diversity in our trust. We work to empower people with any protected characteristic to have opportunities to work in an environment that helps them to contribute to the best of their ability, recognising and valuing the unique contributions each of us brings for best quality care and service to our patients. We are committed to supporting the delivery of the Equality Act with zero tolerance for any discrimination, harassment or victimisation of applicants and staff with these protected characteristics

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria