East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust
Occupational Therapist (Rotational)- Therapy Service
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Occupational Therapist (Rotational)
We are recruiting for an Occupational Therapist (Rotational) who share our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.
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 and Elderly care.
Within the rotations, we provide strong and established professional leadership, excellent team support and 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.
You will be joining a proactive, integrated Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy service with excellent peer and senior support. We are looking for someone with sound clinical reasoning and communication skills, as well as an ability to work within a team and to use your initiative.
We would welcome applications from experienced occupational therapists and newly qualified.
At the heart of everything we do are our core values: Include, Respect, and Improve. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.
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Responsibilities
- Assess and treat your own caseload of patients and maintain your own records as an autonomous practitioner with access to a senior member of staff for advice and support on a daily basis.
- Communicate with relevant medical and nursing staff, social workers, and other healthcare professionals, patients, relatives, and carers regarding patient care.
- Undertake comprehensive and, where applicable, standardised assessments of patients looking at all Occupational Performance including self-maintenance, productivity, and leisure for patients.
- Undertake assessment and treatment of patients with diverse and complex presentations/multi-pathologies with supervision.
- Carry 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.
About Us
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.
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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
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.
Contact Information
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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