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Salary An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Critical Care Team at Peterborough City Hospital. We are looking for an experienced, enthusiastic and motivated Band 6 Occupational Therapist to join our team which provides acute inpatient services to Critical Care Unit, Respiratory and Cardiac wards as well as a Pulmonary Rehabilitation service.
This role is for you if you like a fast paced and busy ward. As part of the multi-disciplinary team you will be required to apply your knowledge and clinical reasoning to rehabilitate patients and support safe, effective and timely discharges from hospital, liaising with a variety of community and voluntary services as well as identifying and providing equipment needs for discharge.
Modern healthcare delivery requires a 7 day service and therefore some weekend and on call working may be required.
Therapy Services sits as part of the wider Rehabilitation Service which includes Dietetics and Speech & Language Therapy. You will be joining a well-established multi-disciplinary service. You will be encouraged and supported to develop your clinical and teaching skills and be actively involved in service development. We offer clinical and managerial supervision and performance appraisals.
The post is based at Peterborough City Hospital within our Acute Medicine Team. The team consists of a combination of Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, Technicians and Assistants who are committed to joint working to deliver a high quality service and support discharge.
Successful candidates need to be fully qualified with experience in an Acute Hospital environment and HCPC registered. You should be forward thinking, dynamic and have the desire to develop and improve patient care.
We are committed to ensure a work-life balance to all our staff by offering full time and part time roles, flexible working hours on a shift pattern to fit around your family life.
We welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly encourage applications from disabled, Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) and candidates form our local communities.
Benefits to you
27 days annual leave for new starters, rising to 29 days after five years of service and 33 days after 10 years of service, plus 8 Bank Holidays (pro-rata for part time staff);
NHS Pension Scheme:
Flexible working opportunities;
Increased hourly rates for unsociable hours e.g. night shifts, weekends, bank holidays;
Career development and training;
Wellbeing support and activities;
In-house physiotherapy Service;
On-site canteens with subsidised meals;
Subsidised staff parking (currently free).
Free Stagecoach Bus Travel to and from work within Cambridgeshire and Peterborough
Be professionally and legally accountable and responsible as an autonomous practitioner and to undertake a significant clinical workload, providing care to patients with a range of psycho-social, physical and emotional problems.
Review referrals for appropriateness, and then assess and treat accordingly.
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