Band 5 - Rotational Occupational Therapist, Inpatient Physiotherapy

This is an exciting opportunity to start or progress your Occupational Therapy career within our friendly, supportive and dynamic Therapy Service at Watford General Hospital.

The post holder will gain experience across a variety of rotations, including Stroke, Care of the Elderly, Medicine, Surgical and Orthopaedics.

We offer an award-winning preceptorship programme to support you within your first 12 months of starting in a newly qualified role.

We have access to bespoke online training to assist the transition from university to the workplace.

We also offer a supportive programme for international occupational therapists who are new to living in the UK and working in the NHS.

The role would be ideal for final year students or apprentices looking to secure their first qualified role. It would also be ideal for those who have left the HCPC register and are looking to return to practice.

The Trust has one of the largest Acute Assessment Units, which provides opportunities for comprehensive assessments to help support patients to the most appropriate place of care.

We have established relationships with our community teams, including rapid response and early supported discharge for stroke.

We also run a Frailty Service. We additionally have Dementia and Delirium specialist therapists in both Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy, who can help develop and support our Band 5's, with any complex patients in the acute setting.

Main duties of the job

On each rotation, the post holder will be supported by experienced team members to develop their individual learning needs. We have an excellent supervision and appraisal process to facilitate this.

You will have access to In-Service training opportunities within our teams and there are also opportunities for study leave and course funding both internally and externally.

The department is a 7 day working service (frequency of 1:4 - 1:6 weekends) with rest days in the following week. This is underpinned by a competency framework.

With a new hospital planned for Watford and work underway to update theatres at St Albans City Hospital, this is an exciting time to join us.

We are building on the success of our award-winning virtual hospital and re-imaging models of care, working ever more closely with partners and making the most of advances in digital healthcare.

Staff wellbeing and development are a priority at our Trust, as is the role of innovation in improving clinical care, outcomes and patient experience.

Our vision is Excellent patient care, together and our values are to be empowered, compassionate, professional and inclusive. They capture an important balance across what we must all do as individuals and to support others.

At West Herts we offer a variety of flexible working options as we recognise the importance of a good work life balance and the ability to work flexibly. https://www.westhertshospitals.nhs.uk/flexibleworking/.