Band 5 Rotational Occupational Therapist

The closing date is 13th Feb 2023

Job summary

Calling all enthusiastic and motivated occupational Therapists! University Hospitals Birmingham (UHB) are recruiting to our established and ever-expanding Band 5 rotation across Heartlands, Good Hope & Solihull Hospitals including Solihull Community Services. UHB NHS Trust is based in the vibrant city of Birmingham.

Opportunities are available for positions based across all sites providing intervention to adults across a variety of clinical areas, such as: Stroke & Neurology, Trauma & Orthopaedics, Health Care for Older People, Medical, OPAL, Respiratory, Specialist Surgery, Infectious Diseases, Renal, Solihull Community; with planned expansion of the rotation to cover specialist areas such as: Macmillan, Rheumatology & more. Providing a variety of clinical experience to consolidate and develop your skills supporting successful career progression within the Trust.

Perhaps you are an established Band 5 OT wishing to experience different clinical fields or in the final year of your degree? You will be joining a large and supportive therapy team, with excellent training and development opportunities and robust supervision and appraisal systems. Coupled with the opportunity to work alongside highly specialist colleagues and integrate into a variety of specialist multidisciplinary teams.

The Trust provides a 7 day service; successful candidates will be required to participate in 7 day working rotas.

Main duties, tasks & skills required

CLINICAL RESPONSIBILITIES:

1Caseload Management

*To be responsible for managing his/her own caseload with clinical supervision from Senior Occupational Therapists

*To use this support to reflect and learn from practice

2.OT Role

*To be demonstrate confidence in the O.T role within the multi professional team

*To recognise the role of other members of the multi professional team, to have knowledge of and use the resources of each service in the team appropriately

*To demonstrate the application of the OT process to patient care

*Recognise when it may be necessary to carry out Access, Home and follow up visits with guidance from senior colleagues

*Carry out straightforward home, access and follow up visits in discussion with senior colleagues, once confidence and the necessary skills are acquired over time

3OT Intervention

*To identify all patients requiring OT intervention and prioritise them according to the OT guidelines, with the support of senior colleagues

*Carry out all necessary assessments of the patient's needs in self-care, productivity & leisure

*To establish plans of intervention and carry them out according to OT standards, adjusting them as necessary

*To organise discharge plans for patients, with guidance from senior colleagues

*To learn and understand about options for patient care in relation to the clinical area

Please see the job description for further detail

Lorraine Garratty, Therapy Clinical Team Leader, 0121 424 7798 or email

lorraine.garratty@uhb.nhs.uk

About us

We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this.

Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to:

Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can;
Offer our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives.

UHB is committed to ensuring that our staff are treated fairly and feel that they belong, by creating a kind and inclusive environment. This is about equity of opportunity; removing all barriers, including discrimination and ensuring each individual member of staff reach their true potential, achieve their ambitions and thrive in their work. This is more than words. We are taking action. Our commitment to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation where every voice is heard, driven by our diverse and active staff networks, and at Board level by the Fairness Taskforce led by our CEO. We nurture a culture which empowers staff to challenge discriminatory behaviours and to enable people to bring their 'whole self' to a kinder, more connected and bold place to work.

Job description

*Please Note : For a specific detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description* 

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential

DIP RCOT/Degree in Occupational Therapy

HCPC membership

Experience

Essential

Student placement in an area with transferrable skills

Knowledge of an Acute Hospital Setting

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants.

UK Professional Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

For help with your application, contact: 

Lorraine Garratty 

lorraine.garratty@uhb.nhs.uk 

01214247798 

Pay scheme

Agenda for Change 

Band

Band 5 

Salary

£27055.00  to £32934.00 Yearly 

Contract

Permanent 

Working pattern

Full-Time, Flexible Working 

Reference number

304-43902GB1 

Job locations

Trustwide 
Mindelsohn Way 
Birmingham 
West Midlands 
B15 2TH 

Attachments

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