Occupational Therapist – Band 6

Package Description

As a Band 6 Occupational Therapist, you’ll be part of our valued team at our service in Trowbridge.

You will feel valued as an Occupational Therapist within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including: 

• £37,338 - £44,962 Band 6 with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
• Free tea, coffee, and milk at your base location 
• Plentiful on site-parking
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
• Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling 
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise 
• An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year

Job Introduction

To provide support and assistance as a Children’s Occupational Therapist working with children in Wiltshire aged 0-19. As part of Children’s Integrated Therapy team to autonomously manage a complex caseload of children with a range of varied and complex needs. This will involve specialist assessment, treatment, and management of children with complex needs. You work in various community localities to include clinic settings, nurseries, schools, and client’s homes across Wiltshire. Helping to assess and treat your own caseload of patients and to maintain own records as an autonomous practitioner and provide clinical and peer supervision and contribute to the overall service delivery model and team advancement.

Main Responsibilities

Patient/client care

• You will complete comprehensive assessments of needs for the children.
• Communicate effectively with patients and carers to maximise functional potential and to ensure understanding of condition. Communication skills of motivation, explanation, empathy and gaining informed consent will be used with a wide variety of patients.
• Be able to effectively communicate with children and young people, families and other professionals to agree joint goals for therapy.

Operational and Administrative Responsibilities

• Be responsible and accountable for all aspects of own work, including the management of patients in your care.
• You will also accept clinical responsibility for a designated caseload of patients and to organise this efficiently and effectively with regard to clinical priorities and use of time. To ensure a high standard of clinical care for the patients under your management, and support junior staff to do likewise.

Financial and physical resources

• To be responsible for ensuring the effective selection and use of all treatment resources available in the department
• Arrange and attend a variety of appointments and equipment, including treatment sessions, equipment appointments etc

The Ideal Candidate

Degree/diploma equivalent

• HPCP registration
• 2 years Post grad Occupational Therapy experience
• Work experience with children in the wider setting
• Broad knowledge of current best practice
• Competent to use standardised assessments and outcome measures
• Able to act independently and on own initiative but recognise limitations.
• Have strong problem solving/analytical skills
• Articulate and good communication skills
• Self-directed in learning and commitment to CPD

About The Company

We change lives by transforming health and care.

Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.

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