East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust
Occupational Therapist (Rotational)- Therapy Service
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Occupational Therapist (Rotational) Opportunity
We are recruiting for an Occupational Therapist (Rotational) who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.
About the Role
This post covers Acute Trust rotations at the Lister Hospital, Stevenage and includes:
- Stroke rehabilitation
- Acute Assessment unit
- General Surgery and Amputees
- Orthopaedics
- General Medicine
- Elderly care
Within the rotations, we provide:
- Strong and established professional leadership
- Excellent team support
- Opportunities to contribute to service and clinical development
The rotations are 4.5 months in length to provide the opportunity for you to gain valuable skills in a variety of clinical areas.
Key Responsibilities
- Joining a proactive, integrated Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy service with excellent peer and senior support.
- Sound clinical reasoning and communication skills.
- Ability to work within a team and to use your initiative.
- Assessing and treating own caseload of patients and maintaining own records as an autonomous practitioner.
- Communicating with relevant medical and nursing staff, social workers, and other healthcare professionals, patients, relatives, and carers.
- Undertaking comprehensive and standardized assessments of patients looking at all Occupational Performance including self-maintenance, productivity, and leisure for patients.
- Undertaking assessment and treatment of patients with diverse and complex presentations/multi-pathologies with supervision.
- Carrying out accompanied home visits or unaccompanied access home visits, to assess the patient/client’s functioning in their own environment and communicate with relatives and carers regarding further care and/or treatment at home.
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Our Core Values
At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general & specialist services we provide & our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible & innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.
We Run The Following Hospitals:
- The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
- New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
- Hertford County, Hertford
- Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood
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We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation; our staff & patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.
We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. Employees are entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns & we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made & considered formally, & will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.
Application Information
We would welcome applications from experienced occupational therapists and those who are newly qualified/qualifying.
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Emma Bates
- Job title: Clinical Therapy Lead
- Email address: emma.bates13@nhs.net
- Telephone number: 01438285275
Please contact Emma Bates on 01438 284148 if you have any queries or wish to find out more about the role.
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