Job overview

WVT Occupational Therapy are looking to recruit an Apprentice Occupational Therapist, with our Inpatient Therapy department.
As a development role, you will attend University to complete the Occupational Therapy degree, whilst working as a Therapy Support Worker. This allows you to gain your clinical skills and knowledge whilst training to become an Occupational Therapist.
You will initially start as a Therapy Support Worker (band 3).  On completion of the degree, you will become a registered Occupational Therapist.
The University that you attend will be the University of Worcester.

The Apprentice Occupational Therapist is a developmental role. The Occupational Therapy training programme combines and integrates both academic and work-based learning through close collaboration between employers and education providers. An Apprentice Occupational Therapist will be based, as an employee in the organisation, in a specific setting, but may also experience working in alternative settings in order that they gain a wide appreciation of many health and care contexts and are able to fulfil all the requirements of the programme.

Main duties of the job

This is a development role via the Occupational Therapy Apprenticeship standard. You will work towards successful completion of a BSc (Hons) degree in Occupational Therapy (University of Worcester) and recognition by the Health Care Professions Council (HCPC) as an Allied Health Professional (AHP) Occupational Therapist. 

You will develop and maintain knowledge, skills and competencies related to the role of an Occupational Therapist through your apprenticeship within the service as well as through completion of the Occupational Therapy Apprenticeship training programme. This includes working in hospital, clinic and community settings, and delivery of direct person-centred care. Whilst undertaking this training you will work within the service as an Occupational Therapy Apprentice, where your role will reflect your learning.  Gaining knowledge of providing Occupational Therapy assessments and interventions for service users commensurate with the level/stage of apprenticeship.  Gaining knowledge of the application of the Occupational Therapy process (assessment, intervention, evaluation) across clinical settings commensurate with the level/stage of apprenticeship. 

The apprentice will complete band 3 Therapy competencies within a specified timeframe.  On completion of these, they will work towards your band 4 therapy competencies.

Working for our organisation

Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire NHS FT , the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.

Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.

We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care we’d want for our family and friends.

More than 3,500 people work for the Trust – they tell us it’s a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.

We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.

Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman: “The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential.”

Our values - Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time…all the time.