Job summary
- Main area
- Rehabilitation
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (Contract will end on the 9/6/26)
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job ref
- 812-PR-25-QVM-OT
- Employer
- Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Queen Victoria Memorial Hospital
- Town
- Welwyn
- Salary
- £37,338 - £44,962 pa pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 21/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Occupational Therapist
Band 6
Job overview
This is an exciting opportunity to make a real difference to patients' lives and to be part of a platinum accredited service providing excellent patient care.
QVM is a 21 bedded community hospital providing Rehabilitation for a wide range of conditions (medical, orthopaedic, neurological, falls, frailty) in a warm and friendly environment.
You will carry a caseload of patients as part of the inpatient therapy team, guiding their assessment, treatment, and discharge planning on a 17-42 day admission pathway.
Main duties of the job
· To undertake a significant clinical caseload to a high professional standard, using specialist knowledge and skills from theoretical and practical experience.
· To be responsible for the supervision, education and assessment of junior staff, technical instructors and students.
· To communicate with relevant medical and nursing staff, social workers, other health care professionals, patients, relatives and carers.
· To actively participate in Continuous Professional Development and departmental educational and training activities.
· To carry out accompanied home visits and unaccompanied access visits to assess the patients’ functioning in their own environment and communicate with relatives and carers regarding further care and/or treatment at home.
· To participate in departmental audit and research as required.
Working for our organisation
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
· To be professionally and legally responsible and accountable for, all aspects of your own work. To ensure a high standard of clinical care for the patients under your management.
· To hold clinical responsibility for a designated caseload of patients, and to organise this efficiently and effectively regarding clinical priorities and use of time, working without direct supervision.
· To independently undertake comprehensive and where applicable, standardised assessments of patients looking at all Occupational Performance areas including self-maintenance, productivity and leisure.
· To formulate soundly reasoned prognoses and recommend best course of intervention, developing patient centred goals to address occupational performance and skill deficits, enabling patients in the areas of self-maintenance, productivity and leisure.
· To facilitate educational and rehabilitative group sessions for selected patients.
· To undertake the continuous assessment and evaluation of the treatment programmes and modify the programmes according to the individual patient needs.
· To be actively involved in patient discharge planning.
· At all times to be aware of the needs of the patients and their carers and to promote and encourage patient independence and where possible restore functional ability.
· To assess and manage clinical risk within own patient caseload.
· To maintain comprehensive and accurate assessment and treatment records in line with legal and departmental and Trust requirements.
See Job Description for further details
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Occupational Therapy degree qualification
- Attendance at post graduate course(s) in relevant field
- Registered with HCPC
Desirable criteria
- Attendance at relevant post-graduate training courses e.g. Dementia, elderly care, frailty, stroke etc.
Experience
Essential criteria
- A minimum of 1 year’s post registration experience in a broad rotational post
- Appropriate in-patient rehabilitation experience
- Experience of working in the community
- Experience of complex discharge planning including access visits, home visits and equipment ordering
Desirable criteria
- Experience of supervising therapy assistants and/or students
- Involvement in service development and audits
Skills & Abilities
Essential criteria
- Ability to communicate complex and/or sensitive information requiring empathy and reassurance
- Ability to present information accurately, written and oral, in English
- Ability to perform specialist hands-on therapeutic interventions and moving and handling techniques
Desirable criteria
- Clinical problem solving ability in complex cases
Other
Essential criteria
- Hold a full, valid, UK driving licence and have access to a car to use for business purposes (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010)
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Susanne Jayasuriya
- Job title
- OT Team Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
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