Senior Acute Occupational TherapistinSloughinSloughPUBLISHED MON 24 MAR 2025

Job Overview

Looking for a Band 5 or 6 Acute OT post?

Are you

• Passionate about top class patient care with a belief that every day matters?
• Looking for new learning opportunities to expand your competencies & skills?
• Ready for a new challenge?
• Driven to change the narrative of OT within the Trust and our wider communities to promote and develop a strong workforce now for future generations?
  
  

Do you want

• To learn in a fast-paced hospital and community setting?
• To work with a diverse team with wide knowledge and experience?
• To develop your knowledge and skill with support from peers, specialists, clinical educators, experienced Occupational Therapy leaders?
• To develop strong leadership skills to assist with service and people development
  
  

We Can Offer

• An acute rotation providing you with diverse experiences including Medicine (general medicine, Elderly, Respiratory and Cardiology), Orthopaedics, Surgery, Stroke, Neuro, Palliative care, hand therapy (correct at time of advertisement),
• 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 12 month multi-professional preceptorship programme (Band 5).
• We support OTs who are looking to Return to Practice
  
  

Main duties of the job

Main Duties of 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 6 monthly Band 5 or 12 monthly Band 6 rotation brings duties and learning opportunities specific for that 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 AHP practice development lead and clinical flow lead.

Working for our organisation

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.

Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.

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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. There may be opportunities to consider a static position in medicine so please enquire.

Person specification

Qualification

Essential criteria

• Degree or Diploma in OT
• HCPC registration
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Fieldwork educators course
• Evidence of post graduate CPD
  
  

Skill

Essential criteria

• Ability to work single-handedly with individuals and groups
• Ability to manage own workload and determine priorities
• able to work under pressure
• Ability to reflect and critically appraise own performance
• Good understanding of how the OT role relates within the acute NHS setting
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Training and facilitation skills
• Use of an electronic patient record
  
  

Experiene

Essential criteria

• knowledge of evidence based practice
• Understanding of professional ethics and their application in practice
• Ability to clinical reason/ plan intervention independently
• Relevant experience
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Experience of research and audit
• Advice and informal supervision to support staff and students
  
  

Special

Essential criteria

• Willingness to rotate clinical area of work
• Must be able to travel between sites
  
  

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 .

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