Band 6 Occupational Therapist Specialist inLoughborough inLoughborough PUBLISHED TUE 3 DEC 2024

Welcome to the Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre at Stanford Hall. We are an inclusive and dedicated organisation working to provide excellent care to our entitled personnel.

Are you an enthusiastic, dedicated Occupational Therapist Specialist looking for an exciting new role helping to support our armed forces? We'd love to hear from you.

We are looking to recruit a dynamic, organised and enthusiastic Band 6 Occupational Therapist Specialist to join our vibrant and fast paced organisation that seeks to sustain and improve the operational efficiency of injured service personnel by the provision of high-quality targeted rehabilitation.

This is a full time role consisting of 37.5 hours per week. If this sounds like it could be for you, please apply.

Benefits

• An NHS Pension
• An inclusive working environment
• Access to the gym and swimming pool, including running track and outdoor training facility
• Cafe and coffee shop on site

DMRC is a vibrant, fast paced organisation that seeks to sustain and improve the operational efficiency of injured service personnel by provision of high-quality targeted rehabilitation. We provide consultant led medical rehabilitation for patients with complex needs who may have sustained multiple injuries; this includes neurological injury and complex trauma. Additional rehabilitation services within DMRC include Spinal and upper quadrant rehab, Lower Limb rehab and Specialist Rehabilitation.

The Occupational Therapy Service is staffed by qualified Occupational Therapists (OT) and support staff to provide a highly specialist clinical service to military personnel.

We are looking to recruit a Band 6 Occupational Therapist Specialist who will be working within our Neurology department here at DMRC Stanford Hall.

Our chosen candidate will deliver Occupational Therapy to service personnel with complex clinical needs within the Neurology Rehabilitation service (supporting both inpatient and outpatient services). This includes the exciting opportunity to rotate between delivering bespoke Neuro Rehab and specialist Vocational OT with the Neurological OT rehab team.

The post holder will work autonomously and be accountable for own professional actions and of those staff who they line manage. To also provide full support to the Band 7 OTs, Team Manager and OT Professional Lead Advisor in the provision of a comprehensive, evidence based and professional OT service within clinical area.

About us

The duties and responsibilities of the role include, but are not limited to:

• Assessing complex patients with a range of neurological diagnoses, implementing appropriate specialist rehabilitation programmes underpinned by sound theory and evidence-based practice.
• Maintaining up to date, accurate patient records in line with professional practice guidelines and produce specialist reports where appropriate.
• Supporting the Interdisciplinary Team (IDT) in the interpretation of assessment results and recommendations based on clinical need as part of the larger rehabilitation process.
• Using your skills at assessing and interpreting a range of complex factors relating to the patients condition which will impact on their ability to carry out their activities of daily living including their ability to return to work.
• Being a highly effective communicator demonstrating skills in empathy, reassurance and the ability to motivate others.
• Carrying out environmental assessment such as home and/or workplace visits where appropriate. This may involve working alone away from main place of employment, making complex clinical decisions and writing specialist reports for IDT, line managers and other Military of Defence (MOD) and external agencies.

Please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification for further details.

Selection Process and Further Information

The sift will be completed within 5 working days of the vacancy closing date. Interviews will be held on a date to be confirmed.

There will be no reimbursement for any travel expenses for the interview.

Requests to work flexibly and/or part time will be considered, taking into account business needs.

Please note the salary will be pro-rata where part time hours are undertaken.

All employees joining Ministry of Defence who are new to the Civil Service will be subject to a 6-month probation period (unless otherwise advised) effective from the employment start date.

Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check.

Please ensure you demonstrate that you have the required skills, knowledge, experience, qualifications and memberships in the CV section of the application form.

To be considered for this role, qualifications and memberships detailed must be held in full, prior to submitting your application.

The selection at sift stage will be based on your CV. At interview, you will be tested against the following NHS Knowledge and Skills Framework:

• NHS Core NHSC1 Communication
• NHS Core NHSC2 Personal & People Development
• NHS Core NHSC3 Health, Safety & Security
• NHS Health & Wellbeing HWB6 Assessment & Treatment Planning
• NHS Health & Wellbeing HWB7 Interventions & Treatment

And the following Civil Service Behaviour:

• Leadership

Access to the NHS pension scheme is available to the successful candidate.

If found successful for this position, you will be required to provide evidence of your immunity to Hepatitis B. Please note that evidence of your vaccination is not a proof of your immunity, but your serology levels will be required. Failure to provide sufficient evidence may result in the offer of employment being withdrawn.

There is no requirement to deploy as this is met by our uniformed personnel, but you will form the continuity of care required by our patients when based at home.

Please see the link to our YouTube channel for advice preparing your best responses with some hints and tips on answering behaviour-based questions. Hints and tips such as: Your behaviours can be based on situations from work, volunteering or home; match your situation to the behaviour requested and how to use your 250-word limit. www.jobsincare.com/job/jbnsKhnG post does NOT offer relocation expenses (move of home, excess fares or temporary transfer). Non-Standard move applicants will be eligible for the full package, subject to eligibility.

We encourage all our employees and prospective ones to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 subject to any exemptions that may apply. Please see the attached further information document for full details.

As a result of the changes to the UK immigration rules which came into effect on 1 January 2021, the Ministry of Defence will only offer sponsorship for a skilled worker visa under the points-based system, where a role has been deemed to be business critical. This role does not meet that category, and we will not sponsor a visa. It is therefore NOT open to applications from those who will require sponsorship under the points-based system.

Should you apply for this role and be found to require sponsorship, your application will be rejected, and any provisional offer of employment withdrawn.

This vacancy is part of the A Great Place to Work for Veterans initiative, www.jobsincare.com/job/jbnsKhnG Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equality of opportunity. There is a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

If you need to advise us that you need additional help or reasonable adjustments for the recruitment process, please contact

The Ministry of Defence is committed to providing a safe and healthy working environment for its staff which includes educating them on the benefits of not smoking, protecting them from the harmful effects of second-hand smoke and supporting those who want to give up smoking. Under the Smoke-Free Working Environment policy, Smoking and the use of all tobacco products (including combustible and chewing tobacco products) will not be permitted anywhere in the Defence working environment. The policy is Whole Force and includes all Defence personnel, contractors, visitors and other non-MOD personnel. All applicants seeking, considering, or accepting employment with the Ministry of Defence should be aware of this policy and that it is already in place at a number of Defence Establishments.