Senior Occupational Therapist - Peterborough

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Critical Care Team at Peterborough City Hospital. We are looking for an experienced, enthusiastic and motivated Band 6 Occupational Therapist to join our team which provides acute inpatient services to Critical Care Unit, Respiratory and Cardiac wards as well as a Pulmonary Rehabilitation service.

This role is for you if you like a fast paced and busy ward. As part of the multi-disciplinary team you will be required to apply your knowledge and clinical reasoning to rehabilitate patients and support safe, effective and timely discharges from hospital, liaising with a variety of community and voluntary services as well as identifying and providing equipment needs for discharge.

Modern healthcare delivery requires a 7 day service and therefore some weekend and on call working may be required.

Therapy Services sits as part of the wider Rehabilitation Service which includes Dietetics and Speech & Language Therapy. You will be joining a well-established multi-disciplinary service. You will be encouraged and supported to develop your clinical and teaching skills and be actively involved in service development. We offer clinical and managerial supervision and performance appraisals.

The post is based at Peterborough City Hospital within our Acute Medicine Team. The team consists of a combination of Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, Technicians and Assistants who are committed to joint working to deliver a high quality service and support discharge.

Successful candidates need to be fully qualified with experience in an Acute Hospital environment and HCPC registered. You should be forward thinking, dynamic and have the desire to develop and improve patient care.

Our teams work hard to be flexible and promote a health work/home life balance and so, agile working options are automatically considered for all roles within the Trust.

We welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly encourage applications from disabled, Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) and candidates from our local communities.

Your package with us includes a lot more than just your pay and here are a few of the additional benefits that are available to you as an employee:

• Access to the NHS Pension Scheme
• Relocation allowance in line with the Trust policy
• Generous Holiday Entitlement, starting at 27 days a year (for full time workers) plus bank/public holidays
• Free staff car parking on all our hospital sites during this financial year
• In-house Physiotherapy Services
• Career development and training opportunities
• Emotional Wellbeing Service covering a range of online support, access to mobile apps and 24/7 counselling services
• Subsidised meals at our hospital restaurants
• Access to exclusive discounts, cashback and vouchers via NHS Discounts and Blue Light Card

If you share our values and vision and are passionate about working with people on what matters to them, you could be a real asset to Team North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust.

Be professionally and legally accountable and responsible as an autonomous practitioner and to undertake a significant clinical workload, providing care to patients with a range of psycho-social, physical and emotional problems.

Review referrals for appropriateness, and then assess and treat accordingly.

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