Senior Occupational Therapist - Complex Medicine

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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• Dip COT or BSc (Hons) in OT
• HCPC registration
• Evidence of CPD maintained in a portfolio including attendances at recent post graduate courses/ in-service trainings relevant to the speciality

• Membership of BAOT/RCOT or similar
• Experience in wheelchair prescription

• Experience of working in an acute hospital environment
• Evidence of broad based postgraduate experience to include experience in medicine or elderly care
• Experience of working as part of a multi-disciplinary team with example

• Knowledge and example of working in liaison with community therapy services and intermediate care services
• Experience of supervision of staff or students
• Experience with in the NHS

• Examples of organising, prioritising and delegating appropriately
• Ability to be highly organised and responsive to changing workloads and situations
• Ability to apply knowledge to achieve high standards of clinical practice / performance
• Developed working knowledge of broad range of illnesses, injuries and conditions. Particularly those relevant to the clinical setting

• Evidence of use of IT systems to support their work
• Understanding of resource management eg. equipment provision
• Knowledge/ use of SOAP notes

• Example of excellent verbal and non-verbal communication skills
• Example of where there may be barriers to understanding

It is an exciting time to join the newly formed Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. We run two busy hospital sites in Bedford and Luton. Our 7,500 staff provide high quality care for a growing population of around 700,000 across Bedfordshire and the surrounding areas.

You will be joining a friendly, high performing Trust committed to ensuring the health and wellbeing of staff. As one of the largest NHS Trusts in our region you will have access to a programme of high quality training and development to help you grow your career. Travel between hospital sites may be required. We have state‑of‑the‑art facilities placing us at the heart of cutting edge health care.

The Trust continues to be committed to delivering the best patient care using the best clinical knowledge and technology available.

All new staff will be subject to a probationary period covering their first six months in post.

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

• Job Description (PDF, 240.4KB)
• Person Specification (PDF, 144.4KB)
• Functional Aspects (PDF, 144.4KB)
• Band 5 OT JD (PDF, 224.4KB)
• Band 5 & 6 Person Specification (PDF, 152.4KB)
• L&D Hospital site map (PDF, 96.8KB)
• Disclosure & Barring Information and Recruitment of Ex-Offenders (PDF, 78.5KB)
• Staff Diversity Network (PDF, 140.3KB)
• Information for Disabled Applicants (PDF, 98.7KB)
• Staff Benefits (PNG, 1.6MB)