Job summary
- Main area
- Senior Occupational Therapist (Acute Band 6)
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Weekend working (approximately 1 shift month))
- Job ref
- 151-NM90
- Employer
- Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Frimley Park Hospital
- Town
- Camberley
- Salary
- £39,205 - £47,084 per annum incl HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 10/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Acute Rotational Occupational Therapist
Band 6
Job overview
Looking for a Senior Acute OT (Band 6)? Keep reading...
Are you
- Passionate about top class patient care with a belief that every day matters?
- Looking for new learning opportunities to expand your competencies & skills?
- Ready for a new challenge?
- Driven to change the narrative of OT within the Trust and our wider communities to promote and develop a strong workforce now for future generations?
- Committed to making the NHS have a brighter future?
Do you want
- To learn in a fast-paced hospital and community setting?
- To work with a diverse team with wide knowledge and experience?
- To develop your knowledge and skill with support from peers, specialists, clinical educators, experienced Occupational Therapy leaders?
- To develop strong leadership skills to assist with service and people development
- A workplace that has energy and a drive to proactively respond and think outside the box for the best service now and into the future?
We can offer:
- An acute rotation providing you with diverse experiences including Medicine (general medicine, Elderly, Respiratory and Cardiology), Orthopaedics, Surgery, A&E, Rapid Frailty & Stroke (correct at time of advertisement),
- Excellent learning opportunities with a high level of support and supervision and appraisal from senior colleagues,
- Peer support from a large group of colleagues on the rotation
To find about more about the additional things we can offer get in touch.
Main duties of the job
To provide excellent, high-quality person-centred clinical care that advocates for patients; strive to provide a service fit for today and the future; develop personal leadership to support clinical growth. Every rotation (12 months) brings duties specific for that speciality and team.
Our teams across all sites have a friendly, supportive atmosphere and a real team ethic. We know how to look after our staff - making sure they achieve the ideal work-life balance. As a Trust we offer a multi-professional preceptorship programme. In addition, we offer excellent training opportunities supported by an AHP practice development lead and clinical flow lead.
Working for our organisation
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS services for across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.
Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
If you are inspired to know more about this opportunity and our team, please see the job description attached, which outlines the main duties of this post. There may be opportunities to consider a static positions in medicine so please enquire.
Person specification
Qualification
Essential criteria
- Degree or Diploma in OT
- HCPC registration
Desirable criteria
- Fieldwork educators course
- Evidence of post graduate CPD
Skill
Essential criteria
- Ability to work single-handedly with individuals and groups
- Ability to manage own workload and determine priorities
- able to work under pressure
- Ability to reflect and critically appraise own performance
Desirable criteria
- Training and facilitation skills
- Use of an electronic patient record
Experiene
Essential criteria
- knowledge of evidence based practice
- Understanding of professional ethics and their application in practice
- Ability to clinical reason/ plan intervention independently
- RElevant experience
Desirable criteria
- Experience of research and audit
- Advice and informal supervision to support staff and students
Special
Essential criteria
- Willingness to rotate clinical area of work
- Must be able to travel between sites
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
- Tanya Trussler
- Job title
- Principal Occupational Therapist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0300 6134421
- Additional information
Email and telephone enquires are welcome.
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