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Job Overview
Are you?
passionate about top class patient care with a belief that every day matters.
qualifying this year, just starting your career or looking for new learning opportunities
ready for a new challenge
thinking about return to practice
driven to promote the value of Occupational Therapy and therefore influence the narrative of OT for future generations
committed to making the NHS having a brighter future
Do you want?
to learn in a fast-paced hospital setting
grow your leadership skills as well as your clinical skills
work with a diverse team with wide knowledge and experience
develop your knowledge and skill with support from peers, specialists, clinical educators, and experienced Occupational Therapy leaders.
We Can Offer
an acute and community rotation providing you with diverse experiences including Medicine, Orthopaedics, Surgery, Elderly Rehabilitation, A&E, Stroke, Hand Therapy, Community inpatient rehabilitation and Community based therapy (site dependent)
excellent learning opportunities with a high level of support and supervision and appraisal from senior colleagues
peer support from a large group of colleagues on the rotation
a multi-professional preceptorship programme
The Trust runs an MDT Preceptorship programme to support newly qualified Therapy Staff in settling into their new role
Main duties of the job
To provide excellent, high-quality person centred clinical care that advocates for patients, strive to provide a service fit for today and the future, develop personal leadership to support clinical growth. Every rotation (6 months) brings duties specific for that speciality and team.
Our teams across all sites have a friendly, supportive atmosphere and a real team ethic. We know how to look after our staff - making sure they achieve the ideal work-life balance. As a Trust we offer a multi-professional preceptorship programme. In addition, we offer excellent training opportunities supported by an APH practice development lead and clinical flow lead.
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
Please note that we are unable to provide visa sponsorship for this position. Applicants must have the right to work in the UK.
Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
If you are inspired to know more about this opportunity and our team, please see the job description attached, which outlines the main duties of this post.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
Degree or Diploma in OT
HCPC registration
Competencies
Essential criteria
Problem solver
Good organisational skills
Ability to work single-handedly with individuals and groups
Effective written and oral communication skills
Computer literacy
Group work skills
Team Player – understanding team dynamics
Ability to manage own workload and determine priorities
Be able to work under pressure
Ability to reflect and critically appraise own performance
Desirable criteria
Presentation skills
Training and facilitation skills
Use of the Tiara Therapy Computer system
Professional / Specialist / Functional Experience
Essential criteria
Knowledge of evidence based practice
Understanding of professional ethics and their application in practice
Knowledge of health legislation in current practice and clinical governance
Knowledge of risk assessment
Experience of work as an OT or placement as an OT student within the acute hospital setting
Documented evidence of CPD
Worked (could be as a student) in some of the following areas:- Acute Medicine, Orthopaedics, Surgery, Elderly Care, A&E, Neurology, community rehab
Desirable criteria
Experience of research and audit
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 .
Job Overview
Are you?
passionate about top class patient care with a belief that every day matters.
qualifying this year, just starting your career or looking for new learning opportunities
ready for a new challenge
thinking about return to practice
driven to promote the value of Occupational Therapy and therefore influence the narrative of OT for future generations
committed to making the NHS having a brighter future
Do you want?
to learn in a fast-paced hospital setting
grow your leadership skills as well as your clinical skills
work with a diverse team with wide knowledge and experience
develop your knowledge and skill with support from peers, specialists, clinical educators, and experienced Occupational Therapy leaders.
We Can Offer
an acute and community rotation providing you with diverse experiences including Medicine, Orthopaedics, Surgery, Elderly Rehabilitation, A&E, Stroke, Hand Therapy, Community inpatient rehabilitation and Community based therapy (site dependent)
excellent learning opportunities with a high level of support and supervision and appraisal from senior colleagues
peer support from a large group of colleagues on the rotation
a multi-professional preceptorship programme
The Trust runs an MDT Preceptorship programme to support newly qualified Therapy Staff in settling into their new role
Main duties of the job
To provide excellent, high-quality person centred clinical care that advocates for patients, strive to provide a service fit for today and the future, develop personal leadership to support clinical growth. Every rotation (6 months) brings duties specific for that speciality and team.
Our teams across all sites have a friendly, supportive atmosphere and a real team ethic. We know how to look after our staff - making sure they achieve the ideal work-life balance. As a Trust we offer a multi-professional preceptorship programme. In addition, we offer excellent training opportunities supported by an APH practice development lead and clinical flow lead.
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
Please note that we are unable to provide visa sponsorship for this position. Applicants must have the right to work in the UK.
Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
If you are inspired to know more about this opportunity and our team, please see the job description attached, which outlines the main duties of this post.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
Degree or Diploma in OT
HCPC registration
Competencies
Essential criteria
Problem solver
Good organisational skills
Ability to work single-handedly with individuals and groups
Effective written and oral communication skills
Computer literacy
Group work skills
Team Player – understanding team dynamics
Ability to manage own workload and determine priorities
Be able to work under pressure
Ability to reflect and critically appraise own performance
Desirable criteria
Presentation skills
Training and facilitation skills
Use of the Tiara Therapy Computer system
Professional / Specialist / Functional Experience
Essential criteria
Knowledge of evidence based practice
Understanding of professional ethics and their application in practice
Knowledge of health legislation in current practice and clinical governance
Knowledge of risk assessment
Experience of work as an OT or placement as an OT student within the acute hospital setting
Documented evidence of CPD
Worked (could be as a student) in some of the following areas:- Acute Medicine, Orthopaedics, Surgery, Elderly Care, A&E, Neurology, community rehab
Desirable criteria
Experience of research and audit
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 .
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