Working closely with multi-disciplinary teams across health, social and voluntary sectors you’ll deliver high quality, individualised, evidence based care to all patients, maintain confidentiality, privacy and dignity of patients. You’ll care for patients and their families in the way that you believe is best, delivering our high service standards, sharing best practice, and actively improving the way we work.
As an Occupational Therapist you will work within the Intermediate Care Team, where you will work collaboratively with our team of Physiotherapists, OTs, Nurses and Rehab Assistants, to deliver high quality care to patients in the community by assessing their needs and implementing a treatment plan to encourage their independent living and prevent hospital admissions.
Package DescriptionAs a Band 6 Occupational Therapist, you’ll be part of our valued team at Camberley Health Centre
You will feel valued as an Occupational Therapist within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
£35,392 - £42,618 Band 6 with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
Free tea, coffee, and milk at your base location
Plentiful on site-parking
Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
Main ResponsibilitiesWithin this role, you will:
Delivery of high quality, individualised, evidenced based care to all patients
Teaching of patients, carers and peers
Ensuring that therapy input is integrated into the patients’ overall care plan
Operating as an autonomous practitioner working without direct supervision and at times lone working
Providing support to unqualified staff and students
Working with managers to develop the service in line with patient need, local and national developments
To maintain accurate records in line with local standards and The Royal college of Occupational Therapists standards.
Maintaining confidentiality, privacy and dignity of patients
Learning, developing and adapting to change evidenced in CPD
Operating in a team and contributing to team decisions
Managing own caseload and prioritising work
The Ideal CandidateYou will have:
HCPC (Occupational Therapy) registration
BSc/Diploma in Occupational Therapy or equivalent
The ability to work flexibly across specialities as need arises
The ability to carry out a range of assessments and procedures in order to write and evaluate treatment plans
The ability to identify and set clinical goals with patient and/or carer
Experience of working within a Health Care organisation at preregistration or post registration level
Knowledge of relevant national guidance and other relevant initiatives
The ability to work in multi-disciplinary teams across health, social and voluntary sectors
Excellent communication skills
Motivation, adaptability and innovation skills
Access to a car and hold a valid UK license
You will also need to be confident using IT systems and be able to demonstrate working knowledge of Microsoft Office packages i.e. Outlook, Word, Excel.
About The CompanyWe change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006 we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.
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