Rotational Senior Occupational Therapist - Derby, Derbyshire, United Kingdom - Wales Medicines Strategy Group

Description

Main area Occupational Therapy Grade Band 6 Contract Permanent Hours

• Full time
• Part time

Employer University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Florence Nightingale Community Hospital Town Derby Salary £35,392 - £42,618 pro rata pa Salary period Yearly Closing 22/05/2024 23:59 Interview date 05/06/2024

Rotational Senior Occupational Therapist - Neurological Rehabilitation Band 6

As a trusted organisation at the heart of our communities, we recognise the important role we can play in supporting the public, patients, our own people and local partners in achieving the best of health for the local population and the communities in which they live by providing Exceptional Care Together.

Our fundamental Values of Compassion, Openness and Excellence underpin how we intend to work as a Trust and the associated behaviours are becoming embedded in all aspects of how we work.

With over 13,000 members of staff you can expect huge variety and new opportunities every day Our staff go above and beyond and take pride in caring for our patients.

University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust is fully committed to promoting inclusion, equality, diversity and human rights in employment and delivery of its services. The Trust is committed to providing an environment where all employees, patients, carers and visitors experience equality of opportunity by means of understanding and appreciating the value of diversity.

As a Trust we promote an inclusive environment and welcome applications from a diverse pool of talent and backgrounds. All individuals are valued and given every opportunity to succeed based on merit.

The Trust actively encourages applications from members of our Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities. These groups are under-represented in our organisation, and it's important to us that our workforce reflects the diversity of our communities as much as possible.

The Trust is a Disability Confident Employer and committed to both employing and retaining people with disabilities.

Join us and help make a real difference to our Trust.

Here's more about the role and what we're looking for;

Job overview

There is an exciting opportunity for a full time Senior Occupational Therapist to join our Band 6 Neuro Rotation. We are looking for someone who is enthusiastic and hardworking to join our dynamic and friendly teams and would welcome interest from full and part time applicants.

The yearly rotations are based across Royal Derby Hospital and Florence Nightingale Community Hospital. The rotations include Kings Lodge Neuro Rehab Unit, Stroke Unit, Neuro Outpatient Service, Neuro In-Reach Team and Acute Neurology.

You will require experience and skills in the assessment and treatment of patients with neurological conditions. You will be responsible for contributing to the delivery of Occupational Therapy within these teams, as well as having opportunities to support operational management and leadership of the services you are working within.

Main duties of the job

We offer a multidisciplinary induction followed by regular supervision and appraisal. There are internal and external training opportunities to support your ongoing learning and professional development, which includes a Band 6 Neuro rotation peer support and education group.

You will need to have experience as an occupational therapist within neurological rehabilitation and be able to demonstrate good communication skills. You must have highly developed interpersonal skills with a commitment to providing excellent patient centred care and multidisciplinary working is essential.

Closing date of applications: 22 May 2024

Interview date: 5 June 2024

Working for our organisation

As a trusted organisation at the heart of our communities, we recognise the important role we can play in supporting the public, patients, our own people and local partners in achieving the best of health for the local population and the communities in which they live by providing Exceptional Care Together

Our fundamental Values of Compassion, Openness and Excellence underpin how we intend to work as a Trust and the associated behaviours are becoming embedded in all aspects of how we work.

In return we will offer:

• Development opportunities, both professional and leadership development
• On-going support from recruitment to when you join our team and beyond.
• Staff benefits including employee assistance programme, discounted gym membership, onsite fitness classes, car schemes

Key Facts:

• We see on average 4810 OP appointments a day.
• We are the 4 th busiest Trauma & Orthopaedic outpatients department in England – an average of 2077 per week.
• An average of 1115 patients are seen in A&Es across our network every day – 3rd largest in the country.
• Our hospitals admit an average of 195 emergency patients daily.
• Last year we undertook almost 33,700 planned surgical operations in our 57 operating theatres.
• We are one of only 7 Trusts nationally with more than 50 operating theatres.
• We carry out more than 140 elective procedures each working day.
• UHDB is a research active University Hospital with a large and varied portfolio of clinical trials and research opportunities for all staff.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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• Occupational Therapy degree or equivalent diploma
• State registration
• Evidence of CPD specifically related to neurology
• Current driving licence
• Accredited fieldwork educator

Knowledge & Experience

• Basic understanding of a variety of neurological conditions
• Clinical experience through a wide variety of rotations to include neurology and rehabilitation
• Experience working within a multidisciplinary team
• Understand clinical governance and its implications for services
• Experience of supervision and appraisal
• Experience of administering and analysing a variety of cognitive and perceptual assessments

Skills and Ability

• Ability to use analytical and judgement skills to make decisions regarding patients' diagnosis, prognosis and inform treatment programmes
• Planning and organisational skills to enable effective management of own patient workload.
• Able to move and handle patients safely for self and others as part of the rehabilitation process
• Ability to use a risk assessment approach to maximise patients' function and safety
• Ability to fabricate and clinically reason a range of splints and casts
• Previous experience of teaching
• Able to work in a flexible manner adapting to changing situations constructively
• Able to motivate, demonstrating empathy and reassurance
• Communicate concisely and clearly to ensure others' understanding
• Able to present all levels of information using a range of technology

Our Trust aims to provide the highest quality care to patients within Derbyshire and South East Staffordshire and we want the very best people to work with us.

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IMPORTANT INFORMATION

If we receive a high number of applications for this position we reserve the right to withdraw the post before the closing date, therefore it is advisable that you apply as early as possible to avoid disappointment.

At UHDB , we offer different ways to work flexibly to each and every one of our colleagues, many of whom already work flexibly at all sites of the Trust.

For our roles we are open to discussing the possibility of part-time/ reduced hours/ compressed hours/ flexible start and finish times/ fixed/flexible shifts/annualised hours/ term time hours/ hybrid working – working partly in the trust/partly at home.

Why don't you talk to us at interview about the flexibility you would like to explore and what it means to you, and we will discuss what's possible for the job and team, and the opportunities we might be able to create together.

We can't promise to give you exactly what you want, but we do promise to work with you to look at all the available options.

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Name Zoe Zydzienowski Job title Clinical Specialist Occupational Therapist Email address Telephone number Additional information

If you would like to discuss any aspects of the job or visit, please contact Zoe Zydzienowski (Clinical Specialist OT) on or Rose Kershaw (Clinical Specialist OT) on

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