Band 5/6 Occupational Therapist-Development Opportunity

3 months ago


Birmingham, United Kingdom University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Job summary

Stroke and Neurological Occupational Therapist,

Band 6 OT post or band 5-6 OT development post.

Are you a current band 6 OT or a band 5 looking to progress into a band 6 post then we have an exciting opportunity for you. We are seeking a motivated and enthusiastic Occupational Therapist to join our Stroke and Neuro Therapy Team at Heartlands Hospital.

We are a large and dynamic Therapy Team providing a high quality and effective in-patient and outpatient services from our hospital sites. We have a strong emphasis on staff development and learning with excellent support and a robust supervision structure in place. If you would like to gain a broad range of rehab experience within the acute stroke unit, ESD and Stroke, Neuro and frailty services, and be part of an excellent team and develop your skills within this specialty, then please apply.

If you are a motivated Occupational Therapist with a minimum of 12-18 months experience and evidence of working in Stroke and Neuro, falls and Older People's therapy looking to progress to a Specialist Band 6 role do not miss this opportunity to work within a progressive, friendly team with all the benefits of being a large teaching Hospital.

If successful in the band 5-6 OT development post then there would be a requirement to complete band 6 OT competencies before the band 6 post was offered.

For further details please contact:

Alison Wilkinson Band 8a Occupational Therapist A

Main duties of the job

To provide a specialist Occupational Therapy Neurological rehab service across the pathway, ranging from both in-patient Stroke and Neuro rehab, to Early Supported Discharge and out-patient rehabilitation.

You will work as part of a large, friendly, dynamic and forward -thinking rotation across sites to deliver specialist, client centred rehabilitation for a range of patients. The role will enable you to deliver varied specialist rehab in both in-pt and out pt settings as well as patient's homes.

The team is committed to providing supervision and training to enhance your development and has a robust system of support and education in place.

You will contribute to our flexible working programme across the organisation.

To provide a high standard occupational therapy service across the stroke and neuro service.

To use your specialist technical skills to assist in the assessment and treatment of your own caseload stroke and Neurological patients. You will be working alongside specialist therapists who will be able to support your development.

The caseload is varied and with the possibility of a variety of settings, stroke ward, Out patient , clinics and community visits.

To contribute to seven day working programmes across the organisation

About us

We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this.

Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to:

Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can;Offer our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives.

UHB is committed to ensuring that our staff are treated fairly and feel that they belong, by creating a kind and inclusive environment. This is about equity of opportunity; removing all barriers, including discrimination and ensuring each individual member of staff reach their true potential, achieve their ambitions and thrive in their work. This is more than words. We are taking action. Our commitment to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation where every voice is heard, driven by our diverse and active staff networks, and at Board level by the Fairness Taskforce led by our CEO. We nurture a culture which empowers staff to challenge discriminatory behaviours and to enable people to bring their 'whole self' to a kinder, more connected and bold place to work.

University Hospitals Birmingham is a Smoke-Free premises hospital.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please note for a specific detailed job description for this vacancy please see attached job description.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

* Diploma / degree in Occupational Therapy. * Current registration with Health Professions Council. * A levels or equivalent qualification * Good standard of general education including GCSE maths and English grade C and above. * Evidence of CPD including recent post graduate training relevant to clinical speciality.

Experience

Essential

* Demonstrates comprehensive clinical experience enabling the post holder to manage a caseload of patients with complex needs in this speciality. * Demonstrate acute clinical experience enabling the post holder to manage a caseload of patients with complex needs in this speciality. This will include acute hospital experience in older people's medicine, frail elderly, neurology and T&O. Minimum of 12 months experience * Experience of team/service development. * Experience of supporting and supervision of junior therapists, students and assistants. * A specialist knowledge across a range of therapy practices, routine and non-routine, requiring expertise within the field of therapy. * Good understanding of working in an acute trust. * Understanding of current legislation and application to Occupational Therapy.

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