Job summary
- Main area
- Occupational Therapy Apprentice
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 4
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 179-7279470-I
- Employer
- West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- West Suffolk Hospital
- Town
- Bury St. Edmunds
- Salary
- £27,485 - £30,162 Pro rata per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 16/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Occupational Therapy Apprentice
NHS AfC: Band 4
Job overview
Could you bring your skills to join the Integrated Therapies Service at West Suffolk Foundation Trust in Bury St Edmunds, as an occupational therapy apprentice / rehabilitation practitioner working with inpatients? If so, we’d love to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
You will have close patient communication as well as their carers, team colleagues and the wider multi-disciplinary team. Excellent communication and organisational skills is fundamental to the role. You will be undertaking patient assessments under the initial guidance of an occupational therapist, including discharge planning in a fast-paced working environment. The role also requires close contact with family/carers and other professionals. You will take some leadership roles within the team with the therapy assistants.
Working for our organisation
#BeKnown at West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust. By us. By our patients. By our community
We are a busy, friendly, rural NHS Trust providing high-quality care and compassion to more than a quarter of a million people across west Suffolk. We care for, treat and support people in hospital, at home and in various community settings.
The West Suffolk Hospital in Bury St Edmunds provides acute and secondary care services (emergency department, maternity and neonatal services, day surgery unit, eye treatment centre, Macmillan unit and children's ward). It has 500+ beds and is a partner teaching hospital of the University of Cambridge.
Adult and paediatric community services, provided in collaboration with West Suffolk Alliance partners, include a range of nursing, therapy, specialist, and ongoing temporary care and rehabilitation, some at our Newmarket Community Hospital.
We do our utmost to achieve outstanding clinical outcomes for patients and our values of fairness, inclusivity, respect, safety and team work guide how we work and behave as a team.
With nearly 5,000 staff, from all over the world, we strive to make our organisation a great place to work. Whatever your role or ambition, we want to help you be the best you can be.
We promote a diverse and inclusive community where everyones voice counts and you can #BeKnown for whoever you are.
Join us. What will you #BeKnown for?
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the full job description for further information.
- To work as part of the medical, surgical, and respiratory team in Integrated Therapies delivering a high quality, effective and tailored therapy service
- To manage a defined non-complex caseload using evidence based, client centred principles to assess, plan, implement and evaluate interventions
Person specification
Education & Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Foundation degree or
- Level 3 qualification and willingness to undertake a Foundation degree or
- Completion of a relevant health competency framework and willingness to undertake a Foundation degree
Desirable criteria
- Can demonstrate intermediate level of theoretical knowledge and clinical reasoning skills acquired through coursework, training and experience
Experience & Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Experience of working in an acute healthcare setting
- Experience of managing a delegated workload
- Experience of implementing programmes /interventions as prescribed by qualified therapist
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working with people with complex needs
- Experience of working in a multidisciplinary environment
- Experience of customer facing roles
- Experience of electronic record keeping
- Knowledge of clinical conditions relating to ageing, such as falls, frailty, stroke, dementia
- Experience of assessing patients with non-complex needs
Skills & Abilities
Essential criteria
- Able to organise and prioritise a designated workload
- Able to work without direct supervision, within an agreed scope of practice
- Effective verbal and written communication skills combined with excellent interpersonal skills
- Able to assess and manage risk within the scope of the role
- Able to react appropriately to change and to work under pressure
- Computer literate
- Able to balance of work/personal life if undertaking an apprenticeship course, seeking assistance as needed
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- Commitment to delivering consistently high standards of care
- Confidence to work and challenge within a multidisciplinary team
- Flexible approach to working hours and duties
- Commitment to continuing personal and professional development
- To have a good level of awareness of self and others in order to support colleagues and patients with empathy and understanding
Other Requirements
Essential criteria
- Frequent Travel Essential - You will need to travel, so you must either hold a full, current driving licence and have access to personal transport or meet the mobility requirements of the role through other reasonable and suitable means.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
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
- Lisa Enright
- Job title
- Service Lead Occupational Therapy
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01284 713 639
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