Senior Occupational Therapist

1 month ago


Ashford, United Kingdom East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Job summary

We have an exciting opportunity for a Band 6 Occupational Therapist to join the team at East Kent Hospitals. This post will be based at the William Harvey Hospital in Ashford and offers the opportunity to work within our Trauma and Orthopaedic inpatient therapy team.

Our Occupational Therapists work alongside other members of the multidisciplinary team (MDT) to support patients on the acute wards, offering assessment and treatment alongside discharge planning.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate would be expected to:

o To manage a clinical caseload of patients, and be responsible for the assessment, formulation and evaluation of patient-centred care.

o To be able to facilitate safe discharge planning from hospital to the community.

o To deputise for Team Leader on clinical and managerial issues within the team

o To be actively involved with training and development within the Department in support of new graduate Occupational therapists, student therapists, therapy apprentices and support workers alongside other senior members of the team.

o Promote the role of OT and demonstrate the values to the members of the multi-disciplinary team.

About us

We are one of the largest hospital trusts in England, with fivehospitals and community clinics serving a local population of around 800,000 people. Our vision is 'great healthcare from great people'. Everything we do is guided by our values: 'People feel cared for, safe, respected and confident that we are making a difference'. We have a new way of working at East Kent Hospitals, called 'We care'. It's about empowering frontline staff to lead improvements day-to-day. We're looking for compassionate people to be part of our improvement journey for the patients, families and carers we care for every day.

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