Sanctuary Personnel, a dedicated and award-winning recruitment agency with a TrustPilot score of 4.9/5 and nearly 1,000 reviews is currently looking for an experienced and dedicated Band 5/6/7 Occupational Therapist to take on a new locum role.
Location: Doddington
Contract Type: Locum ongoing contract
Pay Rate: £24 - £35 per hour (assignment rate)
Benefits of working with us:
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- Effortless Registration: Say goodbye to paperwork! Our fully online and paperless registration service streamlines the process, making it convenient and hassle-free for you.
- Compliance Made Easy: Enjoy peace of mind with our free DBS and compliance service, which includes paid-for mandatory e-learning and practical training modules tailored to your needs.
- Exclusive Opportunities: Unlock access to prestigious roles that you won't find elsewhere. From collaborating with NHSBT to supporting vital projects at The Home Office and Vaccination Centres or relocating candidates to Australia, The Falkland Islands and many other destinations, our network opens doors to diverse and impactful assignments in the UK and globally.
- Expert Guidance and Support: Benefit from personalised clinical governance and revalidation support from our in-house qualified health professional with over 15 years of experience. We're here to ensure you're always on top of your game.
- Rewarding Referral Program: Spread the word and reap the rewards! Refer a friend and receive a generous £250 bonus once they've completed just 100 hours of work. The best part? There's no limit to how many friends you can refer.
- Professional Development: Working as a locum provides opportunities for continuous professional development. You may encounter new challenges, technologies, and best practices in different settings, which can enhance your clinical skills and knowledge.
Duties of the Occupational Therapist:
- To provide neuro advice to professionals from other disciplines.
- Provide support and education to peers, new staff, non-registered staff and students.
- To supervise physiotherapists, non-registered staff, overseeing patient intervention and ensure that they deliver high quality patient care.
- To be actively involved in training, teaching and supporting junior staff, non-registered staff to achieve competencies.
- To be accountable for a delegated caseload held by junior registered staff and non-registered staff in the team.
- To be involved in coordinating and providing 6-month reviews for stroke survivors.
- To build up and maintain key relationships with referring services and CNRS to facilitate appropriate referrals and an understanding of the roles within the ESD team.
- To take an active role in the clinical triage duty process within the ESD service to prioritise and ensure timely response for assessments.
- To be professionally and legally accountable for all aspects for your own and delegated work.
- To work within codes of practice and professional guidelines.
- To undertake specialist holistic assessment (including those with complex presentations and multi pathologies) making use of clinical reasoning skills.
- To use evidence-based practice, to ensure clinical care is effective and appropriate.
- To formulate and deliver an individual physiotherapy programme based on knowledge of evidence-based practice and treatment options.
- To evaluate patient progress, reassess and alter treatment programmes when required.
- To understand and be acutely aware of significant medical observations during assessment and treatment of patients and report significant changes in patients’ conditions to the appropriate medical professional e.g. named nurse, GP etc.
- To ensure smooth transfer of care which will include discharge from the acute or ESD services.
- To work within Trust, CSP and HCPC guidelines, demonstrate a good working knowledge of nation and local standards of practice in line with legal and operational requirements and use own professional judgement to vary from established practices where required.
- To promote independence and wherever possible to avoid hospital admission and reduce inpatient length of stay to ensure those patients receive the appropriate care in the most appropriate setting.
- Organise and manage own time, delegating work appropriately.
- To conduct and contribute to risk assessments and health and safety assessments and including immediately reporting any changes/newly identified risks.
- To be responsible for the implementation of resulting recommendations from risk and health and safety assessments.
- To demonstrate the importance of gaining patient and carer consent in all interventions.
- To effectively communicate verbally with patients, carers and colleagues using tact and persuasive skills. This may involve using skills where patients have difficulties in communication, e.g. hearing loss, diminished sight, depression, aphasia, speech problems, cognitive impairment, behavioural problems and pain.
- Take an active part in the development of the Service and in supporting the organisational aims and objectives of organisation’s models of care.
- To contribute to and work towards the service/organisational aims and objectives of the Integrated ESD and CNRS.
- To work effectively within the service and liaise appropriately with members of the MDT and other agencies by attending MDT meetings, case reviews.
- To ensure that accurate and timely written records are kept which comply with the Trust policy and HCPC guidance, reporting on any issues as appropriate.
- To provide specialist physiotherapy advice to all members of the MDT, service users and appropriate others of changes involving current care plans, patients progress and other relevant matters that pertain to the care of the patient.
Requirements of the Occupational Therapist:
- Degree or equivalent in Occupational Therapy
- Recent UK experience working as an Occupational Therapist
- Recent NHS experience
- Registered with the HCPC
Contact:
This Occupational Therapist job is advertised by Alex Blackwell; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.
We welcome applications from Band 5 Occupational Therapists aswell as Band 6 & 7 as we have multiple vacancies that could be suitable. NHS experience is very desirable for many of our jobs.
Regretfully we are only able to respond to candidates who meet these requirements for this Occupational Therapy role as we need to meet our clients requirements.
Reasonable Adjustments:
If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into you work placement.
