Acute Rotation Occupational TherapistNHS

Job summary

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?
• To 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 rotation providing you with diverse experiences including Medicine (Respiratory, Frailty, Endocrine, Gastro), Orthopaedics, Surgery, Elderly Rehabilitation, A&E, Stroke and Hand Therapy (WPH only)
• Excellent learning opportunities with a high level of support and supervision and appraisal from senior colleagues
• Peer support
• A multi-professional preceptorship program

To find about more about the additional things we can offer, come and meet us.

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.

Job description

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.

About us

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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