Job summary
- Main area
- Therapies
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent: Weekend working may apply
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job ref
- 275-2504ROTOT
- Employer
- Medway NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Medway NHS Foundation Trust
- Town
- Gillingham
- Salary
- £29,970 - £36,483 per annum/pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 04/05/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Rotational Occupational Therapist
Band 5
Do you have the ambition and vision to deliver the Best of Care by the Best People?
Here at Medway, we pride ourselves on working together as one to ensure that our shared vision of Better, Best, Brilliant is achieved
Our Trust is a great choice for people who want to develop their career in an ambitious and dynamic environment; our employees are able to choose the coverage and supplemental benefits that best fit their needs and those of their families. This includes the promotion of flexible working opportunities across the Trust, we are able to give our employees flexibility on where, when and the hours they work.
Our culture and values are what drives Medway NHS Foundation Trust and is the heartbeat of who we are as an organisation. It is important that you understand and to refer to our values when you are completing your application and always reflect our values throughout your employment with the Trust.
Job overview
Rotational Occupational Therapist
Division: Cancer and Core Clinical Support Services
Care Group: Diagnostics & Therapies
Band: 5
Salary: £29,970 - £36,483 per annum/pro rata
We are recruiting for a Rotational Occupational Therapist who shares our ambition and vision to deliver the Best of Care by the Best People and has the drive to take us forward, by ensuring that the Trust continues to be the first choice for patients and our staff.
Our values are Bold, Every Person Counts, Sharing and Open and Together. It is important that you understand and to refer to our values when completing your application and always reflect our values throughout your employment with the Trust.
Main duties of the job
The successful post holder will provide Occupational Therapy interventions to patients, working as part of a specialty therapy team on a rotational basis.
Our diverse rotations include: Frailty and Frailty SDEC, Older Persons wards, Surgical specialities, Orthopaedics - Trauma and Elective, Front Door - ED and assessment wards, and Cardio-respiratory wards.
As a Rotational Occupational Therapist you will maintain appropriate communication with the OT/Physio Team Leaders supervising the rotation, participating in regular supervision of caseload and seeking advice when appropriate .
In addition, you will communicate effectively with patients and carers and other health care professionals using a wide range of verbal and non-verbal communication tools to share assessment findings, agree treatment plans, progress rehabilitation, give advice, teaching etc. This will include patients with communication and comprehension difficulties and those who may be unable to accept diagnosis /prognosis.
We are committed to endorsing diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion; our policies / procedures ensure that all applicants are treated fairly at every stage of the recruitment process.
To contribute to our exciting future and become part of our team, apply today.
Working for our organisation
Do you have the ambition and vision to deliver our mission of the Best of Care by the Best of People providing excellent care, every time?
Here at Medway, we pride ourselves on working together as one to ensure that our shared vision is achieved for our patients.
As a key partner in the healthcare of our local population, we are keen to deliver this as an outcome of our Trust-wide strategy – Patient First. Using an Operational Excellence approach to align our priorities and operational management structures, we are just over a year and half into our Patient First deployment. We are looking for creative, skilled people to join our Transformation Team and further support us on this journey.
Our culture and values define us here at Medway NHS Foundation Trust and are the heartbeat of who we are as an organisation.
Our BEST values underpin Patient First and are at the core of the care we give to our patients, the support we offer to our staff and our overall leadership approach:
B – Bold
E – Every person counts
S – Sharing and open
T - Together
Our Trust is a great choice for people who want to develop their career in an ambitious and dynamic environment; our employees are able to choose the coverage and supplemental benefits that best fit their needs and those of their families. This includes the promotion of flexible working opportunities across the Trust.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To be professionally and legally accountable for all aspects of own work including responsibility of an allocated patient caseload /workload.
To undertake assessment, standardised and non-standardised, of patients including those with diverse and complex presentations and conditions: using clinical reasoning skills and assessment techniques to formulate individualised treatment plans and programmes.
To deliver individualised Occupational Therapy intervention and treatment programmes using a broad range of Occupational therapy skills in individual and group settings.
To continually reassess patient progress, adapting treatment plans accordingly, and developing discharge plans.
To refer patients appropriately to other health and social care services according to protocol providing timely and detailed information to ensure good continuity of care.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Diploma/Degree in Occupational Therapy
- Current Health Professions Council Registration
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Good Knowledge base in assessment and treatment of patients with a wide variety of complex and multi-pathological conditions
- Understanding of the balance of professional development needs with service needs
- Awareness of national and professional guidelines and issues
Skills
Essential criteria
- Good written and verbal communication skills
- Basic IT skills
Experience
Essential criteria
- Broad range of fieldwork placements during training
- Experience of treating patients with physical conditions, some of which is in acute medicane or elderly during training and or post-graduation
Values Based Question
Essential criteria
- Give an example of a time where you have demonstrated a ‘can do’ attitude (including the situation you were in) and the outcome
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.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Zara Elenkova
- Job title
- Acting Clinical Lead Occupational Therapy
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07771710450
- Additional information
01634 830000 ext 5247
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