Specialist Occupational Therapist

5 days ago

Colchester, United Kingdom East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Job summary

We are looking for an experienced, motivated clinician to join our team. You will be a registered Occupational Therapist with demonstrable expertise in goal focused rehabilitation, supporting patients to become experts in their own care and to remain in their own homes.

It is expected that you will have excellent communication skills, enjoy working with a variety of service users of different age groups, have good self-management skills and an ability to prioritise your case load. You should ideally have experience of working in a variety of clinical settings with knowledge of the challenges of community working.

It is essential that you are a car driver with access to a vehicle for work as you will be expected to travel across the North East Essex area.

Main duties of the job

The key objectives for this post are to provide goal focused rehabilitation, supporting patients to become experts in their own care and to remain in their own homes by providing holistic assessments and interventions for this care group.

As a Specialist Occupational Therapist you will have the opportunity to undertake a leadership role in planning, coordinating, delivering and evaluating the rehabilitation provided and be responsible for the supervision of junior staff and students.

You will be able to demonstrate the ability to build networks and relationships over a number of sites and different clinical teams. You will embrace innovation and integrated working and will be committed to delivering excellence in care alongside other OTs, Physiotherapists, Associate Practitioners and Assistant Practitioners.

About us

One of the largest Trusts in East Anglia, East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust (ESNEFT) provide hospital and community health services to people living across a wide geographical area. We deliver care from two main hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, six community hospitals and in patients' own homes. You will be joining a team of almost 12,000 amazing colleagues providing care to approximately a million people.

Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (if applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services. We offer a range of flexible working opportunities.

Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which do not work or cause time delays for our staff and patients.

To support our employees to achieve their career aspirations you may be eligible to obtain a qualification via an apprenticeship. All successful applicants will be required to undertake a skills review to facilitate this. For full details please see the attached Apprenticeship Handbook.

If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge then we are keen to hear from you.

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Job description

Job responsibilities

For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

oRegistered Occupational Therapist with HCPC oProfessional knowledge and Skills acquired through a combination of formal training, short courses and experience to degree level or equivalent. oRelevant post qualification training through short courses and/or further study and experience for example sensory integration working towards post graduate level of study level oEvidence of on-going CPD

Desirable

oRegistered member of British Association of Occupational Therapists oRecognised registered qualification and further courses and experience relevant to role

Experience

Essential

oProven experience relevant to the care group

Desirable

oCompetencies relevant to specialism oExperience of managing the work of others

Knowledge

Essential

oGood theoretical and practical knowledge of a broad range of assessments including specialist relevant to the specialist care group and the relative benefits of each. oGood knowledge of a range of specialist therapeutic interventions relevant to the care group including the relative benefits of each and the comparative outcomes

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