Senior Occupational Therapist -Neurology.

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see additional attached documents for further detailed job description information and main responsibilities.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Dip COT or BSc (Hons) in OT
• HCPC registration

Desirable criteria

• Practice educators certificate

Experience

Essential criteria

• Experience working within an acute hospital environment
• Post graduate experience/ training in neurology, rehab and stroke
• Experience of supervision of staff or students.
• Experience of teaching/ training groups or individuals.
• Experience working as part of a MDT.

Desirable criteria

• Involvement in service improvement via project management or clinical audit.
• Experience working within the NHS

Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Remain up to date with professional practice and new research.

Communication

Essential criteria

• Excellent verbal and non verbal skills
• Ability to pass on skills / knowledge to others within formal and informal environments

Skills

Essential criteria

• Remain updated with professional practice and new research
• Understand the legal responsibilities of the profession
• Ability to organise, prioritise and delegate appropriately
• Ability to comprehend and work within the Trust's policies of data protection, equal opportunities and health and safety and meet the differing needs of the patients
• Ability to keep accurate and legible patient notes
• Competent IT skills
• Effective time management skills
• Ability to be highly organised and responsive to changing workloads and situations
• Ability to work to deadlines and under pressure
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced work environment

Physical

Essential criteria

• Able to carry out moderate to intense physical effort throughout the working day and carry out concurrent activities
• Able to cope with working in a stressful and unpredictable environment, requiring intense periods of concentration and with emotional or aggressive patients and carers

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.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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.

Documents to download

• Job Description (PDF, 232.4KB)
• Person Specification (PDF, 352.4KB)
• Functional Aspects (PDF, 152.6KB)
• 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)