East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust
Specialist Occupational Therapist
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About the Role
We are looking for an experienced, motivated clinician to join our team.
You will be a registered Occupational Therapist with demonstrable expertise in goal focused rehabilitation, supporting patients to become experts in their own care and to remain in their own homes.
Responsibilities
- Have excellent communication skills
- Enjoy working with a variety of service users of different age groups
- Have good self-management skills
- Ability to prioritize your case load
- Experience of working in a variety of clinical settings with knowledge of the challenges of community working
Requirements
- Essential: Car driver with access to a vehicle for work
- Expected to travel across the North East Essex area
Job Details
- Fixed term position until 27th September 2027
- Proposed Interview date: 3rd August 2026
Key Objectives
- Provide goal focused rehabilitation
- Support patients to become experts in their own care and to remain in their own homes
- Provide holistic assessments and interventions for this care group
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As a Specialist Occupational Therapist
- Opportunity to undertake a leadership role in planning, coordinating, delivering and evaluating the rehabilitation provided
- Responsible for the supervision of junior staff and students
- Ability to build networks and relationships over a number of sites and different clinical teams
- Embrace innovation and integrated working
- Committed to delivering excellence in care alongside other OTs, Physiotherapists, Associate Practitioners and Assistant Practitioners
About Us
We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients’ own homes.
- One of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff
- Offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options
- Generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts
- Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offers a variety of services
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Our Philosophy
- Time Matters to everyone
- Focus on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients
- Partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic
- Digital transformation will bring what’s widely regarded as the world’s best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients
Contact
If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.
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For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Portia Gandari
- Job title: Highly Specialist Occupational Therapist
- Email address: portia.gandari@esneft.nhs.uk
- Telephone number: 07766733469
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