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SalaryYou will be joining the Rehabilitation Service which includes Physiotherapy and un-registered staff, who are all working together with the vision of promoting therapy and patient independence across all areas of the Trust.
You will work collaboratively with other members of the multi-disciplinary team, including our community partners, to provide a holistic, patient centred Occupational Therapy service that empowers patients to achieve their goals.
You will have the opportunity to develop your skills within frailty, acute medicine, surgery, orthopaedics, and acute stroke with support from senior Occupational Therapists.
Each team are committed to supporting individuals with continued professional development, offering preceptorship, regular clinical and managerial supervision, and team development.
There is also an opportunity to take part in regular peer supervision, co-lead journal club and attend training sessions specifically for staff, led by senior staff.
If this sounds like the role for you, we would love to hear from you!
- Full functional assessment and analysis of patients’ physical presentation
- Assessments for activities of daily living which will incorporate home, work, school, and leisure activities
- Advice on energy conservation/adaptation. This includes transfers, mobility, personal care, and domestic activities
- Prescribing, and arranging provision of equipment. Educating patients and carers in safe use of equipment
- Adapting and evaluating rehabilitation treatment programmes which will include the assessment and fabrication of static hand orthoses
- Assessing patients requiring more than one member of staff for transfers
- Assessment of hoists and other patient handling equipment
- Facilitation of normal movement of upper limb
- Administering standardised assessments.
We provide a comprehensive range of specialist, acute, obstetrics and community-based healthcare services to around 331,000 people across west and north Norfolk, in addition to parts of Breckland, Cambridgeshire and South Lincolnshire.
We have more than 4,000 staff and volunteers, approximately 530 beds, and a helipad for air ambulances. We work with neighbouring hospitals for the provision of tertiary services, including as part of regional partnership and network models of care, such as the trauma network.
In February 2022 the significant progress that has been made at QEH was recognised by the Care Quality Commission who rated the Trust as ‘Good’ in all of the core services they inspected. They recommended the Trust moves out of the recovery support system (formerly special measures).
Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for further information about the role.
