Clinical Occupational Therapy Education Practitioner

Are you passionate about supporting, training and developing our new and existing occupational therapy workforce? If so, this is the role for you!, We are looking to employ a Clinical Practice Educator for Occupational Therapy, on a fixed term basis. The successful candidate will work with students, newly graduated and existing occupational therapy employees across all of our Trust sites to support their clinical development., You will be responsible for supporting the clinical development of Occupational Therapists and students in practice in partnership with their supervisors. Functioning as a practicing professional working directly alongside the Occupational Therapist in clinical practice is part of this role. You will lead on design and delivery of the induction of Occupational Therapists and co-ordinate occupational therapy student placements. Alongside the AHP workforce lead and other members of the development team, you will quality environment for learning and practicing is provided for occupational therapists and students. You will work with the AHP Workforce lead and HR to plan future roles for graduating occupational therapy students in order to retain them in the Trust or wider health system. Participating in the future planning and recruiting of cohorts onto the Occupational Therapy Apprenticeship programmes is also part of this role.

Ashford and St. Peters Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of more than 410,000 people living in North-West Surrey, parts of Hounslow and beyond. Over 3,700 highly trained doctors, nurses, midwives, therapists, healthcare scientists and other support staff make up our workforce, providing a wide range of services across our two hospital sites, Ashford, Surrey and St Peter's, Chertsey, Surrey. We also run many specialist clinics in the community and local community hospitals and other healthcare facilities. Our vision is to be one of the best healthcare Trusts in the country. There has never been a better time to join us in the NHS at ASPH. We are committed to providing continuous professional development and flexibility to shape our workforce around our patient care. We are expanding our theatres at Ashford Hospital and moving towards this becoming our dedicated elective centre. We want to create a state-of-the-art centre for excellence for planned surgical procedures.

We can offer you the full range of NHS benefits/discounts and in addition:

• Excellent pension scheme and annual leave entitlement
• On-site Nurseries
• On-site staff cafes
• On-site parking
• Support in career development
• Salary Sacrifice schemes including wage stream, lease cars, Cycle to Work schemes and home electronics