Senior OT (Inpatient Rehab)

We are looking for an enthusiastic Occupational Therapist who is passionate about rehab to join our team at Farnham Hospital. We work across two wards, each with 21 patients, and are proactive members of the MDT along with our Physios and Assistants, the nursing and medical teams, pharmacy and social care.
You will receive direct line management from the team's B7 OT Lead, who works in partnership with the team's B7 PT Lead. We work collaboratively with the other therapists in the hospital and share learning, IST and clinical skills, knowledge and experience.
We strive for continuous improvement, benefiting both the patients and the team and currently are focusing on refreshing our rehab model whilst preparing for winter.
You will be supported with regular 1:1s and CPD and service development opportunities. You will line manage junior staff and support students on placement., 1. To undertake holistic OT assessment, clinical diagnosis and individualised treatment plans for patients on the caseload. These patients may have complex and/or chronic presentations and diagnoses, with varied rehabilitation potential, including palliative patients
2. Case management, providing expert clinical advice and therapy to patients with a variety of complex conditions
3. To provide supervision, support and line management to junior staff, and mentorship to students
4. To work with senior staff to develop a comprehensive service in partnership with Integrated Care Teams and all relevant stakeholders.

Working for our organisation
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.
We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough.
Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.
We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital's NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties, 1. To provide holistic OT assessment, goal setting, individualised treatment programmes, care planning and delivery.
2. Regular review and discharge of patients.
3. To manage a varied caseload, seeking support from senior staff where necessary to ensure the provision of a timely, clinically effective service based on evidence based practice.
4. Complex moving and handling
5. Complex discharge planning
6. To be actively involved in, and lead on, projects towards the development & delivery of the service and to contribute to new developments and initiatives.
7. To provide standardised cognitive assessments and treatment programmes as required.
8. To provide comprehensive environmental and functional assessments and treatment programmes, including home visits and access visits.
9. To educate and provide necessary interventions around management of anxiety and fatigue.
10. To provide comprehensive manual handling care plans in a timely manner to ensure the effective and safe delivery of care plans.
11. To identify, assess and manage risk.
12. To triage new referrals, manage handovers and allocate work accordingly.
13. To contribute to interdisciplinary working by teaching and education of professional skills & techniques as defined by an agreed competency framework, both personally and for other staff and students.
14. Where appropriate to take responsibility for the application of new skills to rehabilitation programmes.
15. To provide line management and supervision to junior staff and practice placement students as appropriate.
16. To maintain excellent clinical practice through the CPD process, and taking part in relevant research, audit and development activity as directed.
17. To work closely and jointly at times with the MDT to ensure a timely, holistic and effective care plan is provided to the patient.
18. To be responsible for the day-to-day management and prioritisation of your caseload and be able to respond to urgent referrals and an unpredictable workload. This could require prolonged concentration in an unpredictable environment.
19. To be able to manage potentially stressful, upsetting or emotional situations in an empathetic manner when imparting bad news regarding rehabilitation potential. To ensure this is communicated sensitively to all parties concerned.
20. To keep yourself well at work both physically and emotionally, to access peer, clinical and management support when needed and to be aware of own limitations and escalate accordingly.
21. To report risks and harm to patients using the Trust reporting system.
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.
We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.
We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR - Epic - went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.
Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.