Rotational Occupational Therapist

1 month ago


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

Job summary

Our rotation programme spans the three main acute hospital sites in our trust:

William Harvey Hospital in Ashford Kent & Canterbury Hospital in Canterbury Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Hospital in Margate

All rotational staff may be expected to rotate to any of the hospital sites and particular consideration should be given to this prior to application.

Our rotations are broad and diverse due to the span of clinical specialities delivered by the Trust and will support you in gaining experience across core and specialist areas, including:

Critical Care General and specialist surgery Trauma Elective Orthopaedics Hand therapy Hyper-acute Stroke and Acute Stroke Inpatient Neurorehabilitation Unit Acute Medicine, including medical respiratory and renal Frailty Vascular surgery and outpatients

We offer CPD support and learning opportunities across all of our specialities which includes robust stroke and neurology teaching programme and rotation specific in-service training programmes. We also encourage all staff to be research active and offer opportunities to be involved in clinical audit, service improvement and innovation.

Applications from Students in their final year of study are welcome.

Main duties of the job

Upon joining us we will support you through your preceptorship year and will we guide you through your development as an Occupational Therapist. You will receive regular clinical supervision, band 5 peer support sessions and you will also be mentored by one of our senior clinical leads.

The expectations we have of band 5 Occupational Therapists include:

To assess and treat patients, providing holistic Occupational Therapy intervention as an autonomous practitioner within Scope of Practice Develop Occupational Therapy treatment plans, demonstrating clear clinical reasoning and goal setting. To be clinically curious and work within the multidisciplinary environment of the acute hospital to provide excellent intervention for patients To support clinical supervision of Therapy Assistants and Students where appropriate To be an active member of the wider therapy and AHP team and advocate for their profession where appropriate

About us

Applications for this role should be written by the applicant. If artificial intelligence (AI) programmes are used then the application may be rejected due to this document being an important part of the assessment process. This does not prevent applicants seeking appropriate support with applications should they need to for the purposes of any declared disability.

We are one of the largest hospital trusts in England, with five hospitals and community clinics serving a local population of around 695,000 people.

Our vision is 'great healthcare from great people' and everything we do is guided by our values: 'People feel cared for, safe, respected and confident that we are making a difference'.

At East Kent Hospitals we utilise the 'We care' methodology for improvement; 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 our staff, patients, families and carers we care for every day.

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