Job overview

Are you an emerging Band 5 or an existing band 6 who would like to explore a more rewarding managerial and clinical challenge?   We have a fantastic opportunity to recruit a Band 6 Occupational Therapist to work within the Acute Team here at Bedford Hospital. We are a close working team with Band 7 Occupational Therapy Team Leads, rotational band 5’s and supportive highly skilled therapy technicians to support.

 

Main duties of the job

The Occupational Therapy Team specialise in complex assessment and intervention planning throughout the hospital. As an OT within the Acute Team , you will work as part of the larger MDT to ensure high quality care and treatment .  Specialising in  functional assessment and treatment to assist in ascertaining discharge plans, you will have the specialist skills to make high risk decisions. You will also be supporting band 5’s to develop these skills.

You will need to be able to work in an autonomous way to facilitate good communication and effectively link with multiple on site and external teams. You will have the chance to work with our exciting  Prevention of Deconditioning team and will also have the opportunity to be involved in service development and audit alongside our Practice Development OT.

 High quality clinical supervision is provided for all our staff. You will be supported with your professional development and training by the Team Managers and the Professional Lead OT. 

Working for our organisation

Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides hospital services to a growing population of around 700,000 people living across Bedfordshire and the surrounding areas across two busy hospital sites in Bedford and Luton.  Both hospital sites offer key services such as A&E, Obstetrics-led Maternity and Paediatrics. You will be joining a friendly, high performing Trust committed to ensuring the health and wellbeing of staff. As one of the largest NHS Trusts in our region you will have access to a programme of high quality training and development to help you grow your career. The Trust continues to be committed to delivering the best patient care using the best clinical knowledge and technology available

Our values

We not only recruit based on qualifications and experience - we recruit individuals who demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our Trusts core values. We achieve this by using values based recruitment. We are dedicated to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone, we are committed to promoting equality and diversity, and creating a culture that values differences.

Please note that vacancies may close prior to the advertised closing date when sufficient number of applications have been received. All new staff will be subject to a probationary period covering first 6 months in post. Travel between hospital sites may be required. Please review documents attached to ensure you familiarize yourself with all requirements of the job.

It is an exciting time to join the newly formed Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. We run two busy hospital sites in Bedford and Luton. Our 7,500 staff provide high quality care for a growing population of around 700,000 across Bedfordshire and the surrounding areas.

 

You will be joining a friendly, high performing Trust committed to ensuring the health and wellbeing of staff. As one of the largest NHS Trusts in our region you will have access to a programme of high quality training and development to help you grow your career. Travel between hospital sites may be required. We have state-of-the art facilities placing us at the heart of cutting edge health care. The Trust continues to be committed to delivering the best patient care using the best clinical knowledge and technology available.