Job summary
- Main area
- Medicine
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 381-CT-6779630
- Employer
- Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- SWB NHS Trust
- Town
- Sandwell/West Birmingham
- Salary
- £37,338 - £44,962 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 04/12/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Specialist Occupational Therapist
NHS AfC: Band 6
Sandwell & West Birmingham NHS Trust is a friendly, integrated healthcare provider focused on improving the life chances and health outcomes of our diverse population.
We have three strategic objectives:
People: To cultivate and sustain happy, productive and engaged staff;
Patients: To be good or outstanding at everything we do;
Population: To work seamlessly with partners to improve lives;
We run services from Sandwell, City and Rowley Regis Hospitals, Birmingham & Midland Eye Centre, Birmingham Treatment Centre, the Lyng and Leasowes Intermediate Care Centre. Our GP practices and community teams provide care in schools, healthcare centres and at home.
Our next milestone is opening the Midland Metropolitan University Hospital (MMUH), a once in a career opportunity to shape care transformation within and beyond the hospital walls.
Developing and caring for our People is fundamental. We were one of the first Trusts to provide the Real Living Wage, as well as a Live and Work scheme to support people at risk of homelessness into paid work and training. We offer a range of staff benefits, health & wellbeing support and will help you to bring your ambition to life through our bespoke training and development programmes. As “People” is one of our three strategic objectives, we make a continued commitment to prioritise support for all our colleagues.
Healthcare services have a significant impact on the environment. We are committed to embedding sustainable practices. We expect all colleagues to support the delivery of our Green Strategic Plan and to drive positive changes in their department.
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for band 6 Occupational Therapist with acute medicine experience to join the Medicine therapy team at Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust. We are looking for an established band 6 or an experienced band 5 who are ready for the next challenge, and we are happy to consider a developmental role for the right candidate.
The succusseful candidate will have the opportunity to internally rotate every 3 months to specialised areas like Respiratory hub, Cardiology, Gastroentrology, Haematology and Care of the Elderly wards but also havwe the option to rotate to other areas like Stroke, T&O for more experience. With the move to our new Hospital, Midland Metropolitan Hospital we are excited to have state of the art therapy gym, cognitive therapy skill space and functional assessment units for our patients. The successful candidate will have great opportunites for service development projects, audits and be part of the advanced training and teaching as part of thier CPD within the Medicine therapy Team.
The successful candidate will have the opportunity to be the lead specialist cardio-respiratory and Frailty wards/patients. You will be expected to be part of the 8am to 8pm Acute care model of working rota 7 days and have 1 weekend every 6-7 weeks. We will be happy to accomodate a fully flexible working pattern to work to promote a healthy work life balance.
Main duties of the job
Complete therapeutic assessment and treatment of medical patient in Cardiology, Gastroentrology, Respiratory and Care of the elderly wards.
Understanding and completing discharge planning for patient having therapy or social needs. Using the national guidlines for pathways
Completing access, site and home visit wheere neccessary. Also promoting the discharge to access model for patients.
Completing Moving and Handling plans for patients using various equipments like full hoist, cricket stand aid, Arjo Hoist, Roat stands etc.
Supervising junior members of staff and therapy support workers and also student for various West midlands Universities.
Contributing in in-service training and teaching with the team and the mider MDT.
Working for our organisation
Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust (SWBT) is an integrated care organisation with a budget of approximately £600 million and over 7,000 staff. Diversity and social care is at the core of what we do as the Trust provides Community and Acute Services to over half a million people in an urban centre that demands massive regeneration and has substantial premature mortality.
Our new acute hospital, the Midland Metropolitan University Hospital (MMUH), opens in 2024 and will provide care to our local population from first class, purpose-built premises. As a result, the base of this role may change to MMUH from 2024 (or beyond). If this is applicable to your role, you will be informed during the recruitment process and continuing your application with this understanding. The development of the new hospital will play an important role in the regeneration of the wider area and in improving the lives of local people and reducing health inequalities.
We have three newly emerging strategic objectives:
- Our People – to cultivate and sustain happy, productive and engaged staff
- Our Patients – to be good or outstanding in everything we do
- Our Population – to work seamlessly with our partners to improve lives
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details on what this role entails.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Occupational Degree or equivalent
- HPC Registration
- Portfolio evidence of short specialist courses/CPD
Desirable criteria
- Membership of British Association of Occupational Therapists
Experience
Essential criteria
- Broad post graduate experience as Junior Occupational Therapist in a rotational post including inpatient NHS experience
- Experience of working as part of an Occupational Therapy team and the wider MDT.
- Experience of delegating to and supervising Occupational Therapy/ Rehabilitation Assistants.
- Contributing to the clinical education of less experienced staff or undergraduate Occupational Therapy students
Desirable criteria
- Involvement in audit, research
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dave Fernandes
- Job title
- Service Lead- Medicine and Rapid Response
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07812707726
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