Occupational Therapist Band 6 Thurrock Integrated Community Team

2 weeks ago

Essex, United Kingdom NELFT NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Joining #TeamNELFT means you’ll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We’re CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London, Essex, Kent and Medway. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.

The Trust has award winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development, because when you are valued and supported, we provide the best care to our patients. We are a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, have been featured in the Working Families Top 10 Employers benchmark for three consecutive years, and we have achieved a Carers UK Level 1 Accreditation. Along with our staff networks and training opportunities, we work hard to embed a just and compassionate culture here at NELFT.

Find out more about NELFT careers and what makes our Trust a great place to work, in this video

Job overview

We are looking for an experienced and motivated Occupational Therapist who is passionate about service development and providing high standard of
patient centred care.

Main duties of the job

We see a wide variety of patients with physical conditions including neurological, orthopaedics, falls, long term conditions, and
musculoskeletal. You will be part of a friendly and approachable team, and will be well supported by your management team.
Integrated Community Team currently operates from 07:00 to 19:00 every day, and therapies staff works between 08:30 and 16:30 Mondays to
Fridays. We cover Brentwood and Billericay areas.

Working for our organisation

Starting with NELFT

NELFT place a great deal of importance on new starters being properly welcomed and inducted into the Trust.All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and will undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks which will include mandatory training, systems training and the allocation of equipment. As part of the process new starters will have the opportunity to also meet the executive team, senior managers and attend a number of drop in sessions focussing in engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes.The induction will be held at our head office in Rainham, Essex.

Probationary Period

This post will be subject to a probationary period. Internal applicants are exempt from the probationary period (unless you are an internal applicant currently part way through a probationary period or currently a bank member of staff).

High Cost Area Supplement

This post also attracts payment for High Cost Area Supplement of 5% of the basic salary (with a minimum of £1,258 to a maximum of £2,122).

COVID-19 Vaccination

We continue to encourage all staff to ensure that they have been double vaccinated and received their booster. We recognise that taking the vaccine provides the best defence against COVID 19 for our patients, our staff and their families.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early should sufficient applications be received.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

You will be working closely with community nurses, community matrons/ care coordinators, physiotherapists, occupational therapists and
rehabilitation assistants who are committed to maintaining independence, promoting self-care and assisting patients to achieve their goals.

The successful candidate will be hardworking, reliable and able to use their initiative and work flexibly to respond to the service needs.

Please see the attached job description and person specification for more information about this role and working at North East London NHS Foundation Trust. We encourage you to refer closely to this when completing your application.

We welcome your application even if you do not meet all the criteria listed in the person specification. Any development needs to help you succeed in the role, can be discussed at the interview stage.

Person specification

Meeting all essential and desirable criteria

Essential criteria

Experience of working at B5/B6 level Experience of previous NHS work Degree in Occupational Therapy or equivalent HCPC registration

Desirable criteria

Community rehabilitation Ordering and assessment of equipment needs Supervision of junior staff/ student Experience of multi-professional team working

Meeting more than half essential and desirable criteria

Essential criteria

As above criteria

Desirable criteria

As above criteria

Meeting less than half essential and desirable criteria

Essential criteria

As above criteria

Desirable criteria

As above criteria

Benefits

We believe in bringing your authentic and best self to work, in order to deliver the best care to our patients. We are committed to supporting our employees holistically. Here is a snapshot of what is on offer at NELFT:

A long-standing and award-winning approach to equality and diversity with supportive networks for ethnic minority staff, staff with disabilities or long term/chronic conditions and LGBT staff. A commitment to supporting colleagues to achieve a work life balance, through flexible working opportunities and our effortsto support our working parents and carers. This has resulted in us being recognised as a ‘Top 10 Family Friendly Employer’ from the Working Families Charity. Proactive health and wellbeing support, including access to our employee assistance programme, staff psychological support, individual wellbeing conversations and a network of health and wellbeing ambassadors. Detailed information about our wellbeing and benefits offer can be found in this link.

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s a job share, part time hours or another flexible pattern.

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