Job overview

Part time (15  hours a week)  temporary 12 months contract occupational therapist. To work as part of the COPD team in the hospital and also out in the community at sports centers for pulmonary rehabilitation and also in patients homes.

Main duties of the job

• The post holder will provide an efficient and high quality therapy service for patients
• As an autonomous practitioner they will assess, diagnose and treat patients on their own case load of community patients in individual and group settings.
• Participate in pulmonary rehabilitation sessions, providing education sessions.
• Participate in Continuing Professional Development, clinical audit and in service training.
• To advise the multidisciplinary team about occupational therapy treatment.
• Be professionally and legally accountable for all aspects of their professional and clinical work, working to agreed national and professional standard

Working for our organisation

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trusts in England with a turnover of £2.8bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 30,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.

We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.

We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.