Occupational Therapist

This role has a starting salary of £40,929 per annum based on working 36-hours per week.

Although this role is advertised as full time, we are also happy to consider part time applications and have a conversation about what this would look like.

This is a 12-month fixed term or secondment opportunity. For internal candidates interested in applying for this opportunity, please discuss with your Line Manager before submitting your application.

We are excited to be hiring a new Occupational Therapist to join our fantastic Frimley Park Hospital team (D2A). With guarantees of a supportive team, excellent training and development opportunities, and an agile working environment, Frimley Park Hospital and Surrey Heath Locality Team is a great place to be an Occupational Therapist!

We would love you to join us as we strive to best support our valued Surrey residents, ensuring no one is left behind. The service will be based within our Surrey Heath Locality and will support people being discharged from Frimley Park.

Rewards and benefits

• 26 days' holiday (prorated for part time staff), rising to 28 days after 2 years' service and 30 days after 5 years' service (pro-rata for part-time staff)
• Option to buy up to 10 days of additional annual leave
• An extensive Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) to support health and wellbeing
• Up to 5 days of carer's leave per year
• Paternity, adoption and dependants leave
• A generous local government salary related pension
• Lifestyle discounts including gym, travel, shopping and many more
• 2 paid volunteering days plus 1 team volunteering day per year
• Learning and development hub where you can access a wealth of resources

About the team

Frimley Park is a busy, acute hospital. The Hospital Social Work Team is dynamic and fast-paced, comprising of Social Workers, Social Care Assistants and Administrators that work with multiple professionals to ensure safe discharge and follow up care. The diverse team are committed to making a positive difference for our residents. In return we will provide you with the training, excellent supervision and development opportunities to progress your career.

Our Occupational Therapists have told us that career development is of huge importance to them. One step we have taken to address this is to develop, alongside our Social Work Academy, a 'Senior Readiness Programme', a programme designed to support Occupational Therapists to develop their skills and experience so that they can progress to become Senior Occupational Therapists.

About the role

As an Occupational Therapist with the team, you will support people in short term placements, offering robust rehabilitation programmes to enable them to return home after their rehabilitation.

Being an Occupational Therapist in our Frimley Park Hospital team will facilitate your development and equip you with a range of skills to enable you to undertake frontline holistic occupational therapy practice within a social care setting.

You will work alongside a variety of clients who have differing and/or complex needs by using a strength-based approach. Clients may be elderly and frail, experience a learning disability, physical or sensory impairment, or have ill mental health. This diverse role will facilitate your development and equip you with a large range of skills to enable you to undertake frontline holistic occupational therapy practice within a social care setting. You will have the opportunity to put into practice assessments, such as the moving and handling risk assessments and intervention, with the aim of supporting and empowering our clients to live meaningful lives within the community.

You will work closely with your team members, as well as with other organisations and agencies, to provide an integrated service in order to support vulnerable adults and their carers in a community-based setting. This community-based role requires you to visit clients in their homes, as well as other settings such as residential care and nursing homes.

Shortlisting Criteria

To be considered for shortlisting for this position, your application will clearly evidence the following:

• Professional qualification in Occupational Therapy and current registration with Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)
• Experience of working within a social care, health or community focused multi-disciplinary setting
• Ability to complete person centred and proportionate OT assessments
• Familiarity with moving and handling equipment such as hoists and stand aids
• Knowledge of medical conditions and the likely impact on the individual, carer and family
• Knowledge of current legislation, including the Care Act and the Mental Capacity Act and its application to practice in a social care setting

Surrey has both urban and rural areas and locality based social care workers will be expected to have a valid driving licence to drive in the UK, access to a vehicle and be willing to travel across a wide geographical area. Reasonable adjustments where needed will be made for successful applicants who have a disability or long term health condition to enable them to fulfil the requirements of the job.

Contact us

Please contact us for any questions relating to the role. This could be to discuss flexible working requests, transferable skills or any barriers to employment.

The job advert closes at 23:59 on 07.07.2024 with interviews to follow.