Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Bank Occupational Therapist
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Want to progress in your career whilst still building on your experience in a range of clinical areas?
Looking to develop your managerial skills in a positive and supportive team?
We are looking for motivated and enthusiastic individuals to join us as Bank Occupational Therapists across Hampshire Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.
We are excited to be able to expand our current rotations and as a result, recruit to our Bank Occupational Therapist posts across Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust [HHFT]. This is a 9 monthly rotational post, with a diverse range of clinical areas to work within.
There are opportunities to rotate across our Winchester (RHCH), Basingstoke (BNHH) and Andover (AWMH) sites on a variety of rotations and specialties throughout the patient pathway. These settings include:
- Front door (Emergency Department & Acute Assessment Unit) – RHCH & BNHH
- Medicine – RHCH & BNHH
- Coronary Care, Oncology & Gynaecology – BNHH
- Surgery – RHCH & BNHH
- Long Term Conditions and Elderly Care – RHCH & BNHH
- Inpatient rehabilitation – Kingfisher ward, AWMH
- NEW Therapy Supported Discharge outreach team – RHCH
- Stroke
- Orthopaedic
If you have excellent communication skills, are passionate about providing outstanding patient care, have experience within the acute setting and are looking to further your career in a supportive and friendly environment, then please do get in touch as we would love to hear from you.
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The successful candidate will have a broad range of relevant clinical experience and able to demonstrate a real passion for the inpatient acute hospital setting, acute rehabilitation, and complex discharge planning from a therapy perspective.
You will work as part of the acute therapy team within a multidisciplinary team consisting of Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, Therapy Practitioners and Therapy Assistants. You will be promoting patient independence with the focus on providing early acute inpatient rehabilitation, assessing patients’ current needs, ongoing acute therapy interventions and discharge planning. Your therapy assessments will inform appropriate discharge planning from the hospital setting, according to the patients’ holistic needs.
As a Band 6 at HHFT you can expect to receive robust peer support from fellow Band 6's and regular formal supervision and clinical supervision by a Band 7 therapist. You will have opportunities to lead on service improvement projects, to supervise therapy colleagues and to provide clinical support and guidance to Band 5 occupational therapists, physiotherapists, Band 4 therapy practitioners, Band 3 therapy assistants and therapy students from our partner universities.
You will notice that there are jobs listed under Winchester / Basingstoke, please only apply once as applications for all sites will be considered for the cross-site rotation.
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Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital is on the edge of the lovely town of Basingstoke, approximately 50 miles from London and 30 miles from the south coast. It is easily reached from the M3 and is accessible by public transport (although you will need to hold a manual driving licence for this position).
Royal Hampshire County Hospital is located in the vibrant city of Winchester. It is a historic city with lots to offer and events throughout the year.
We are committed to supporting professional development, with a strong supervision structure in place. Hampshire Hospitals NHS foundation Trust places a strong emphasis on supporting staff to be the best they can be in order to deliver their vision of outstanding care for every patient.
Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of approximately 600,000 people across Hampshire. Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust's vision is to provide outstanding care and strive for excellence, whilst incorporating the trusts CARE values of Compassion, Accountability, Respect and Encouraging and challenging each other to always do our best.
For further details / informal visits contact:
Name: Ruth Lloyd
Job title: Acute Therapies Service Lead
Email address: ruth.lloyd@hhft.nhs.uk
Telephone number: 01962 825420
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