Senior Occupational Therapist - Band 6

Package Description:
As a Senior Occupational Therapist Band 6 within our within our Mulberry Ward Chippenham Community hospital, we value you and your contributions, offering a range of benefits to support your professional growth and personal wellbeing:

• Band 6 AfC Salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover lifes emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
• Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our Outstanding learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
• An open, just culture where youre encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
• The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding good or outstanding ratings from the Care Quality Commission

Job Introduction
Are you an innovative, enthusiastic, organised and experienced Occupational Therapist with at least 18 months post registration experience and a strong interest in rehabilitation?

Would you like to work in a friendly and supportive inpatient team within a community hospital?

We are currently looking for a Band 6 Occupational Therapist , to join our inpatient therapy team on Mulberry ward at Chippenham Hospital in Wiltshire. This role offers an excellent opportunity to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team delivering holistic, patient centred and evidence-based care.

HCRG Care Group is a forward thinking, innovative service provider delivering treatment and care for a wide-ranging population across a mixture of rural and suburban settings. The service provides support to three acute trusts and is constantly developing new services to provide the best level of care to the people of Wiltshire.

Mulberry ward is a 20 bed IP ward with a multi-disciplinary approach to the patient stroke pathway. Patients are admitted to our ward from 3 acute hospitals for ongoing specialist rehabilitation following their stroke.

If you would like to discuss the post please contact Jo Reed or Jane Fitz-james: Inpatient Therapy Leads at View email address on meeveem.com or View email address on meeveem.com

Recruitment Advisor: Louise Ledward on View phone number on meeveem.com or View email address on meeveem.com

We are happy to answer any questions that you may have.

Main Responsibilities
To be successful in the post you must demonstrate a keen interest in care of the older person and be able to deliver high quality patient rehabilitation and discharge planning of complex patients within a community hospital ward environment using evidence-based practice. You must be able to prioritise and organise your caseload, support in the development of B5 OT staff, students and be experienced in supporting and delegating to therapy assistants.

You will be an excellent communicator, enthusiastic, flexible, work autonomously using strong clinical assessment and reasoning skills as well as supporting and leading on complex discharges.

You will demonstrate a desire to work creatively to bring about innovative service development and commit to putting the patient at the centre of your work.

Please see the attached job description for a full list of job responsibilities.

The Ideal Candidate
Essential

• HCPC Registered
• Professional Qualification in Occupational Therapy
• Evidence of ongoing education
• Minimum of 2 years postgraduate experience as an Occupational Therapist
• Experience of working in a range of clinical specialties with particular focus on complex discharge planning
• Prescription of daily living equipment
• Broad range of occupational therapy skills gained through post-registration experience
• Ability to manage complex situations
• Ability to use initiative
• Excellent communicator
• Excellent time management

Desirable

• Fieldwork supervisors or mentorship course
• MSK / Community / Acute work-based training
• Leadership Training
• Participating in clinical and/or operational audits /evaluations
• Experience working as part of a multi-disciplinary team in hospital and community settings
• Supervision of other staff
• Ability to delegate clinical work
• Use of electronic records
• Access to a vehicle that can be used for business purposes and hold a full and valid driving licence.

About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care. Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency, and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. Were a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

While it doesnt happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and well need to close it earlier than the date weve shown here. If youre keen to join our team, wed love to hear from youso please apply as soon as you can.

As youd expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.

Finally, we need to let you know that the company youll work for is part of HCRG Care Group Holdings Limited and by applying for this job well need to process and hold information about you. If you would like to know a little more about how we use your information, please see our website's privacy policy.

Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential

• Essential qualifications include HCPC Registration, a Professional Qualification in Occupational Therapy, evidence of ongoing education, & minimum 2 years postgraduate experience.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Applicants must have current UK professional registration.