Job overview

Band 4 OT Assistant Practitioner – Orthopaedics & Surgical Services

(Prior experience as an OT assistant is essential).

Are you:

• passionate about top class patient care with a belief that everyday matters,
• ready for a new challenge,
• driven to promote the value of Occupational Therapy and therefore influence the narrative of OT for future generations,
• committed to making the NHS having a brighter future

Do you want:

• to learn in a fast-paced hospital setting,
• grow your knowledge about equipment provision and your clinical skills,
• work with a diverse team with wide knowledge and experience,
• develop your knowledge and skill with support from peers, specialists, clinical educators, and experienced Occupational Therapy leaders

We can offer:

• a great opportunity to mix patient facing assessment skills and equipment provision,
• excellent learning opportunities with a high level of support, supervision, and appraisal from senior colleagues,
• generous training opportunities
• a great enthusiastic friendly team to work along side

To find about more about the additional things we can offer apply for our post and meet the team. We would love to talk to you.

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.

The post is a key part of the OT discharge service supporting registered staff with the assessment and rehabilitation 

This role includes :-

• Assessment of trauma and elective patients who have been referred Occupational Therapy
• Taking equipment out to patients’ homes and fitting items (training will be given)
• Setting up / providing follow up visits for prescribed equipment,
• maintenance of stock,
• Liaison with outside agencies and patients’ families,
• Teaching patients and their families how to use and fit the equipment
• Undertaking falls assessments

The post is based at Frimley Park Hospital but applicants must be able to travel between all Frimley Health's hospitals and patient's homes.

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 APH practice development lead and clinical flow lead.

Working for our organisation

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.

We provide a service to Frimley Park, Wexham Park, Farnham and Heatherwood Hospitals, as well as our local community team. This offers great development opportunities in a fast-paced settings which provide seven-day services to our patients. 

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.

We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital's NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties

In the Therapies Directorate we have a strong Equality Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) culture and welcome applicants who will continue to contribute to the power of diversity we want in our teams to help us deliver our best services to our population