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About
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT) provides integrated community and mental health, learning disability and social care services of the highest standard due to our continued commitment to quality and service improvement. We aim to support people of all ages to achieve the very best they can for their health and well being. To ensure that we achieve this goal we look to recruit candidates of a high calibre that share our passion for delivering excellent service user care, research and education.
Specialist Neuro Rehab/Stroke ESD Occupational Therapist
Accepting applications until: 06-Aug-2024 23:59
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 06-Aug-2024 23:59
Key details
Location
- Site
- Doddington Hospital
- Address
- Benwick Road
- Town
- Doddington
- Postcode
- PE15 0UG
- Major / Minor Region
- Cambridgeshire
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Salary
- Salary
- £28,407 - £42,618 per annum, pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (Band 5/6)
Specialty
- Main area
- Integrated Stroke ESD and Community Neuro Rehabilitation Service
Job overview
This is a Development Role
We are seeking an enthusiastic Occupational Therapist to join the Integrated Stroke Early Supported Discharge and Community Neuro Rehabilitation Service in a Band 5 -6 development role.
The Integrated service provided both stroke rehabilitation and community neuro rehabilitation supporting service users with a variety of complex needs.
This is an exciting opportunity to join an established multi-disciplinary team to develop and enhance your skills. The team is comprised of Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, Speech and Language Therapists, Psychologists, Specialist Nurses, and Neuro Rehab assistants.
This role requires the successful candidate to manage a clinical caseload across the county of Cambridgeshire. Their base will be Princess of Wales Hospital, Ely.
The role involves visiting patients in their homes, wards, or community gyms. There may be times when there is a requirement to provide clinical cover elsewhere within Cambridgeshire. The role requires agile working often using virtual consultation to manage a caseload.
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You will provide comprehensive assessments and deliver evidence-based specialist neuro occupational therapy programmes. You will work as part of a multidisciplinary team in supporting patients with physical, cognitive, and psychosocial needs to achieve their potential.
We pride ourselves on the development of our workforce and provide a variety of internal and external training opportunities. The successful post holder will receive and provide clinical supervision and an annual appraisal.
The ideal candidate should be flexible and adaptable to support service delivery.
The successful post holder must be able to travel independently across their work locality, have a valid driving licence and access to a car for work purposes.
Working for our organisation
Cambridgeshire & Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health & social care organisation dedicated to providing high quality care with compassion to improve the health & wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting & empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.
Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services not only via inpatient and primary care setting but also with the community. These services include Children, Adult & Older Peoples mental health, Forensic & Specialist mental health, Learning Disabilities, Primary Care & Liaison psychiatry, Substance misuse, Social care, Research & Development.
To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high calibre candidates that share our vision & values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including disabled people & members of our ethnic minorities & LGBTQ+ communities.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please note for this role you will be required to travel independently around the county meeting strict time deadlines. You will need to hold a full UK driving licence* and have use of a vehicle. You cannot use public transport for this role as this is not a reliable form of transport and will not allow you to meet service needs. Please confirm in your application that you meet the specified criteria.
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities.
- To provide a high standard of Neuro Occupational Therapy, performing assessments of patients and to deliver an individual treatment programme.
- To provide ESD in-reach to the community beds for patients under the ESD service and work with patients in their own homes for both ESD and Neuro rehab patients.
- To hold responsibility for own caseload and be responsible for a defined area of the service working unsupervised within the multi-professional Integrated Stroke ESD and Community Neuro Rehabilitation Team.
- To be accountable for assessing, interpreting, planning, implementing, and evaluating treatment to patients under the care of the Integrated Stroke ESD and Community Neuro Rehabilitation Team within professional guidelines, with the support of Specialist and Advanced Practitioners within the team. Providing appropriate equipment and rehabilitation programmes and making referrals on to other professionals and agencies as appropriate in order to meet the identified needs.
- To identify patient needs, agree goals and provide appropriate therapy interventions relating to their physical, functional, and psychological needs.
- To be involved in providing 6 month reviews for stroke survivors.
- To be professionally and legally accountable for all aspects for your own and delegated work.
- To work within Trust, RCOT, and HCPC guidelines and to have a good working knowledge of national and local standards of practice in line with legal and operational requirements and use own professional judgement to vary from established practices where required.
*DVLA have a number of reciprocal arrangements with overseas countries, for further information please visit the DVLA website
Here at Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT) we are dedicated to providing high quality care with compassion. We deliver many of the NHS services that are provided outside of hospital and in the community such as physical, mental health and specialist services.
We are a health and social care organisation, offering a wide range of services, including:
- Integrated physical and mental health services for adults and older people;
- Specialist mental health and learning disability services;
- Children and young people’s mental health services;
- Children’s community services in Peterborough;
- Social care;
- Ground-breaking research
We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including disabled people and members of our ethnic minorities and LGBTQ+ communities. For further information about our positive equality, diversity and Inclusion work, please visit https://www.cpft.nhs.uk/equalityanddiversity.
CPFT is looking to build upon its pool of temporary workers with Temporary Staffing Services (TSS). You will be asked at interview if you would be willing to register with TSS. This is an excellent opportunity for those looking to take on additional hours that are flexible around your personal circumstances.
Please be advised that in line with the WHO Health Workforce Support and Safeguards List, 2020 Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust currently are unable to accept applications from overseas candidates whose country of residence is classed as a ‘Red List’ country.
Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process.
Applicants who require entry into the UK will be required to provide a valid police certificate from the relevant authority from each country (except the UK) where the applicant has been present for 12 months or more, 10 years before the date of visa application, while aged 18 or over.
If you are successful at interview you will be subject to pre-employment checks, including a DBS (if appropriate), references and Occupational Health. To ensure a smooth process please bring all identity documents to your interview. A list of required identity documents will be attached to your interview invitation.
All communications will be sent to you via TRAC Systems. By applying for this post you are agreeing to CPFT transferring the information contained in this application to TRAC. If you are made an offer, information will also be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.
Please be advised we reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date should we receive sufficient applications.
Applicant requirements
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.
Person specification
Education & Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Degree or equivalent, e.g. BSc, MSc or Diploma entry level qualification into the OT profession.
- Current HCPC registration.
- Documented evidence of own continuing professional development
Desirable criteria
- Member of RCOT
Experience
Essential criteria
- A broad range of undergraduate placements completed including stroke and/or neurology
- Experience of working in the NHS
Desirable criteria
- Clinical experience including neurology and/or stroke.
- Community experience.
- Acute setting experience
Skills & Abilities
Essential criteria
- Able to demonstrate commitment to high quality care and service provision
- Ability to work flexibly as part of a team.
- Able to assess plan and implement care.
- Effective communication skills and report writing including standard keyboard skills and ability to communicate through IT using packages such as Word
- Ability to support non-registered staff.
- Good organisational skills utilising time Management and prioritisation skills
Desirable criteria
- Understanding of clinical supervision
- Motivated to learn and develop as a professional practitioner
- Ability to communicate with patients with impaired communication abilities
Knowledge & Understanding
Essential criteria
- Accepts responsibility and accountability for own work and can define the responsibilities of others .
- Recognises the limits of own authority within the role and seeks and uses professional support appropriately.
- Understanding of relevant outcome measures.
- Demonstrate proactive response to maintaining registration with HCPC and/or other professional bodies.
Desirable criteria
- SystmOne
- Relevant outcome measures
Physical Requirements
Essential criteria
- Kneel, bend & stoop, and work in cramped environments.
- To use moving and handling equipment to manoeuvre patients.
- Must have access to a personal car and the ability to drive independently around the locality, due to the radius covered and lack of public transport in some areas.
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- David Rose
- Job title
- Service Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07842 300908
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