Job summary
- Main area
- Occupational Therapy
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 292-6320346-CSS-B
- Employer
- The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Princess Alexandra Hospital
- Town
- Harlow
- Salary
- £35,392 - £42,618 per annum plus 5% high cost area supplement
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 11/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Band 6 Occupational Therapist - ED, Short Stay & OPAL
NHS AfC: Band 6
The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust (PAHT) provides a full range of general acute, outpatient and diagnostic services at The Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow, the Herts and Essex Hospital in Bishop’s Stortford, and St Margaret’s Hospital in Epping.
Our values
The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust (PAHT) promise to our patients, as identified by our three values which will contribute to improving our patients’ experiences, is:
Patient at heart – Always holding the patient and their wellbeing at the centre of our thoughts and efforts.
Everyday excellence – Sharing and celebrating our successes, being honest when we get it wrong, giving us the ability to learn from both.
Creative collaboration – Knowing strength comes from diversity, we combine our experiences, skills and talents, working together to find new and better ways to care.
Job overview
The Occupational Therapy department has an opportunity available for an enthusiastic and experienced Occupational Therapist to join our integrated Acute Inpatient Therapy team at PAH.
This is a specialist post within our Emergency Department (ED), Short Stay assessment wards and Frailty service. We pride ourselves on delivering a high-quality service in a fast-paced, challenging environment. We provide comprehensive assessments and treatment plans with the aim of preventing deconditioning, unnecessary admissions and facilitating timely discharge.
You will work collaboratively with key stakeholders to further develop innovative ways of working that align with the NHS 5 year plan, this includes participation in workstreams including virtual frailty clinic, involvement in the implementation of discharge home to assess model within the OT service and development of meaningful activities programme within the Frailty Assessment Unit.
You will work closely alongside other therapists within the integrated therapy model, developing further skills and knowledge. You will have the opportunity to support junior team members within formal and informal supervision. You will be expected to support students on clinical placement.
We are looking for a skilled, passionate, confident OT to join us to become part of an innovative and friendly team, to share in our trust values of patient at heart in everything we do and to promote Everyday Excellence and creative collaboration.
Main duties of the job
You will be responsible for providing a high standard of assessment, advice, treatment and evaluation of patients in the Emergency Department, Frailty Assessment Unit and Short Stay Assessment Units. This may include patients with diverse presentations and complex physical and psychological conditions.
You will work as part of an MDT to support patient flow, working across ED and Frailty assessment unit using clinical reasoning to identify appropriate frailty patients and facilitating patient transfers where possible, this will be dependent on their individual presentation and needs. You will be responsible for a clinical caseload involving complex case management and the facilitation od challenging discharges.
You will also have the opportunity to build on your previous experience to further develop your clinical and managerial competencies to be part of a dynamic team to drive forward future developments.
It is required that you work as an autonomous professional according to the Royal College of Occupational Therapy Professional Conduct and Standards, and the Health Care Professions Council's regulations.
Working for our organisation
We are proud to say that we have a sustainable service that covers same day emergency care 8am to 8pm 7 days a week, this is achieved with a variety of working patterns. We recognise that flexible working is important and take this seriously as a department. We encourage all flexible working applications and will consider these individually on balance with the needs of the service.
The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust is a District General Hospital providing acute services to the people of West Essex and East Hertfordshire and has a positive and successful approach to developing and delivering health care.
The Hospital is conveniently located in Harlow, Essex just 25 minute’s drive to London Stansted Airport and 25 minutes train ride to London Liverpool Street. Harlow also has excellent road connections across England, with the M11, M25, A10, M1 and A1 all on its doorstep.
The salary for this role is only one part of the excellent package of benefits we offer you:
- Between 27-33 days of annual leave (dependent on years of service) plus bank holidays
- NHS pension scheme membership
- Salary sacrifice schemes for lease cars, home electronics and more, to make your salary go further
- NHS Staff discounts
- Cycle to work scheme
- Vita health Benefits
- Vivup Benefits
This is an exciting time for the Trust. Over the next 5 years we are on a digital transformation journey, leading us to our brand new hospital. It's never been a better time to join us.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
As a team we share in the vision ‘home first’, this approach acknowledges that often patients needs are best managed in their own environments, this is often also the wishes of the patient. We are key to identifying risks and barriers to this and finding solutions with the collaborative support of the multidisciplinary team. We have established links and regularly network with our primary care services, social services and external agencies within the ICS to make this process from hospital to home as streamline as possible.
You will be supported by our Occupational Therapy team leader with yearly appraisal and regular formal and informal supervision. In addition to attending and contributing to targeted IST within the ED and Frailty therapy team you will be invited to the established therapy department weekly in-service training.
For further details, please refer to the attached job description and personal specification which is available to download at any time.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Degree in OT
- HCPC Registration
Desirable criteria
- Member of RCOT
- Member of special interest group
Experience
Essential criteria
- Wide range of clinical experience, including rotations in core areas of OT
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working in an ED
- Experience of supervising staff / students
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Portfolio documenting continuing professional development
- Clear, concise English written communication
- Ability to organise and prioritise work
- Detailed understanding of a wide range of medical conditions
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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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
- Katie Silk
- Job title
- Head of Therapies
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01279 827199
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