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Rotational Occupational Therapist

Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Chester

Rotational Occupational Therapist

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Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Chester

  • Full time
  • Temporary
  • Onsite working

Posted today, 30 Oct | Get your application in now to be one of the first to apply.

Closing date: Closing date not specified

job Ref: 8563a5a673414757bea5e2d8ae6d74b3

Full Job Description

  • To work as an autonomous practitioner to perform a specialist occupational therapy assessment of patients with diverse presentations. To use clinical reasoning to provide a diagnosis and develop, deliver and adapt individualised treatment programmes.
  • To implement monitoring and evaluation of treatment in order to measure progress and outcomes to ensure effectiveness of interventions and service delivery.
  • To be professionally and legally accountable for all aspects of own work and that of supervised physiotherapists and assistants, and hold responsibility for own caseload for a specialist area of the service, working without direct supervision.
  • To provide clinical cover, as appropriate during staff absence with guidance and support of a senior member of staff if required.
  • To participate in 7 day working as per service requirements, in evening and/or weekend duty rotas and/or emergency/on call rotas. To provide treatment to patients and to provide advice to medical and nursing staff and other members of the multidisciplinary team without direct supervision.
  • To identify and carry out Home Visits in accordance with Trust and Professional standards and to assess patient condition and suitability for discharge and where appropriate supervise physiotherapists and assistants in these tasks (If applicable)

    We are looking for a motivated, enthusiastic and dynamic Rotational Occupational Therapist who integrates quickly into a team setting and who will support in driving service provisions forward., Good time management skills, organisational skills and an ability to work under pressure are essential requirements to this post.

    The Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust provides services to West Cheshire and to Welsh patients covered by Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board. The Trust works collaboratively within the wider Cheshire and Merseyside Health and Care Partnership. Its services are provided from three locations:
  • The Countess of Chester Hospital: providing 438 general and acute beds
  • Ellesmere Port Hospital: providing 56 beds as a rehabilitation, intermediate and outpatient facility
  • Tarporley War Memorial Hospital: a base for community services which serve the local rural population.
    • The Trust employs over 6258 staff (headcount) which includes temporary bank staff and provides acute emergency and elective services, primary care direct access services and obstetric services to a population of approximately 407,000. This includes 357,000 residents in Chester and West Cheshire which includes Ellesmere Port and Neston as well as the Deeside area of Flintshire which has a population of approximately 50,000. The Trust is a busy district general hospital and in 2022/2023, there were more than 503,342 patient attendances (inpatient, outpatient and diagnostic) ranging from a simple outpatient appointment to major cancer surgery. This is an increase of nearly 10,000 compared to the previous year when there were 494,387 patient attendances.

  • Good team support
  • A supportive and reflective learning environment
  • Regular formal and informal supervision provided by experienced Occupational Therapy staff
  • Opportunity to engage in Service wide clinical governance activities
    • Clinical areas include Medical/Surgical Rehab, Neurology, Rapid Response, and Community. The post holder will provide specialist Occupational Therapy to the allocated rotational areas. Applicants must be experienced Occupational Therapists with HCPC registration and able to demonstrate they have successfully completed a broad range of rotations at Band 5 grade within the NHS.

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