Job overview

An excellent opportunity exists for an enthusiastic Occupational Therapist to gain employment at Queen Victoria Hospital .

This post incorporates three ongoing rotations of 8 months, one in Hand Therapy,  second on the Burns/Plastics/ Head and Neck wards and the third in community rehabilitation team. All teams are friendly and dynamic and look forward to welcoming a new member.  We operate a Monday to Friday service and have no plans currently to undertake 7 day working.  You will receive excellent supervision in both teams from experienced and long-standing senior staff.   Opportunities are given for external training as well as a comprehensive in-house package.   Previous experience in these specialist area's is beneficial but not essential.

We can offer you the opportunity:

• to work in departments with an excellent international reputation and wide variety of caseload
• to work with strong clinical and managerial supervision and leadership
• for excellent CPD activities – In-service training, doctors teaching, library support, regular supervision, funding to attend courses and conferences as well as extra 1:1 support when first starting the role.
• to take initiative with service development projects and audit in collaboration with other team members
• to work within effective, supportive and cohesive multi-disciplinary teams

Main duties of the job

The Hand Therapy rotation involves the assessment, diagnosis and formulation of hand therapy treatment to both inpatients and outpatients, referred from Consultants & GP’s, in order to maximise patient recovery and function. 

The Burns/Plastics/Head and Neck rotation involves the assessment, diagnosis and formulation of therapy treatment to both inpatients and outpatients (adults and paediatrics) to the burns and plastics unit and plastics wards, in order to maximise patient recovery, function and safe discharge.  This will include the Critical Care Unit and Enhanced Recovery Area.

The Community Rehabilitation team treat a caseload of patients as outpatients attending the unit in single session or group and also delivers rehabilitative therapy within patients residences in the local area. The majority of the caseload is a mixture of frailty patients or those with chronic conditions including falls patients. A smaller portion of the caseload also includes those with neurological disorders and anxiety.

Working for our organisation

Rated GOOD overall with outstanding care by the CQC. A specialist NHS hospital providing life-changing reconstructive surgery, burns care and rehabilitation services across the South of England and beyond.

A centre of excellence, with an international reputation for pioneering advanced techniques and treatments. Everything we do is informed by our passion for providing the highest quality care and the best clinical outcomes.

At QVH we are proud of our achievements and our specialist services continue to record excellent clinical outcomes for patients. We regularly receive excellent results from patient satisfaction surveys and on average 98% of inpatients say they would recommend the hospital to their family or friends.

Our success is underpinned by the skills and enthusiasm of our staff and a strong culture of partnership. We are fully committed to training and development of the workforce with support for continuing education and learning.