Senior Occupational Therapist – Band 6 - Cedar Ward in Chippenham

As a Senior Occupational Therapist Band 6 within our Cedar Ward Chippenham Community hospital, we value you and your contributions, offering a range of benefits to support your professional growth and personal wellbeing:

• Band 6 AfC Salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life's emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
• Online and face-to-face help with your mental and physical wellbeing from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post-trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well as career coaching and counselling
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our Outstanding learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
• An open, just culture where you're encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
• The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding good or outstanding ratings from the Care Quality Commission

Are you an innovative, enthusiastic, organised and experienced Occupational Therapist with at least 18 months post-registration experience and a strong interest in rehabilitation? Would you like to work in a friendly and supportive inpatient team within a community hospital? We are currently looking for a Band 6 Occupational Therapist to join our inpatient therapy team on Cedar ward at Chippenham Hospital in Wiltshire. This role offers an excellent opportunity to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team delivering holistic, patient-centred and evidence-based care.

Cedar ward is a 17 bed IP ward with a multi-disciplinary approach to patient rehabilitation. Patients are admitted to our ward from 3 acute hospitals for ongoing specialist rehabilitation following their stroke.

Main Responsibilities:

• Demonstrate a keen interest in care of the older person and be able to deliver high-quality patient rehabilitation and discharge planning of complex patients within a community hospital ward environment using evidence-based practice.
• Prioritise and organise your caseload, support in the development of B5 OT staff, students and be experienced in supporting and delegating to therapy assistants.
• Be an excellent communicator, enthusiastic, flexible, work autonomously using strong clinical assessment and reasoning skills as well as supporting and leading on complex discharges.
• Demonstrate a desire to work creatively to bring about innovative service development and commit to putting the patient at the centre of your work.

The Ideal Candidate:

• HCPC Registered Professional Qualification in Occupational Therapy
• Evidence of ongoing education
• Minimum of 2 years postgraduate experience as an Occupational Therapist
• Experience of working in a range of clinical specialties with particular focus on complex discharge planning
• Prescription of daily living equipment
• Broad range of occupational therapy skills gained through post-registration experience
• Ability to manage complex situations
• Ability to use initiative
• Excellent communicator
• Excellent time management

Desirable:

• Fieldwork supervisors or mentorship course
• MSK / Community / Acute work-based training
• Leadership Training
• Participating in clinical and/or operational audits/evaluations
• Experience working as part of a multi-disciplinary team in hospital and community settings
• Supervision of other staff
• Ability to delegate clinical work
• Use of electronic records
• Access to a vehicle that can be used for business purposes and hold a full and valid driving licence.

We change lives by transforming health and care. Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency, and improved outcomes.

We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We are a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

As you'd expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.