Job summary
- Main area
- Occupational Therapy
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent: Weekend working a part of a rostered working pattern
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 151-NM114
- Employer
- Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Wexham Park Hospital
- Town
- slough
- Salary
- £32,602 - £39,686 per annum incl HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 10/08/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Occupational Therapist - Rotational
Band 5
Job overview
Are you
- Passionate about top class patient care with a belief that every day matters.
- Qualifying this year, just starting your career or looking for new learning opportunities
- Ready for a new challenge
- Thinking about return to practice
- Driven to promote the value of Occupational Therapy and therefore influence the narrative of OT for future generations
- Committed to making a brighter future within the NHS
Do you want
- To learn in a fast-paced hospital setting
- Grow your leadership skills as well as 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:
- An acute and out patient rotation providing you with diverse experiences including Medicine, Orthopaedics, Surgery, Elderly Rehabilitation, A&E, Stroke, Hand Therapy, Community inpatient rehabilitation and Community based therapy (site dependent)
- 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
- A multi-professional preceptorship programme
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 (6 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 a practice development lead and clinical flow lead.
Working for our organisation
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.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Degree or Diploma in OT
- HCPC registration
Competencies
Essential criteria
- Good organisational skills
- Ability to work single-handedly with individuals and groups
- Effective written and oral communication skills
- Group work skills
- Ability to manage own workload and determine priorities, relevant to acute physical hospital setting
- Be able to work under pressure
Desirable criteria
- Presentation skills
- Training and facilitation skills
- Use of electronic pt record
Professional / Specialist / Functional Experience
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of evidence based practice
- Understanding of professional ethics and their application in practice
- Knowledge of UK health legislation in current practice and clinical governance
- Knowledge of risk assessment
- Experience of work as an OT or placement as an OT student within the acute hospital setting
- Documented evidence of CPD
- Worked (could be as a student) in some of the following areas:- Acute Medicine, Orthopaedics, Surgery, Elderly Care, A&E, Neurology, community rehab
Desirable criteria
- Experience of research and audit
Special Requirements
Essential criteria
- Willingness to rotate clinical area of work
- Willingness to work flexibly across a 7 day service
- 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
- Caroline Reynolds
- Job title
- Principal Occupational Therapist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0300 615 3144
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