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Location

Amersham, Buckinghamshire | United Kingdom

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Job description

Make a Difference to Children and young people lives - Become a Highly Specialist OT at Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust.

Part-time/full time and flexible working will be considered.

Due to investment and expansion in our service, we are seeking an experienced and passionate Occupational Therapist to join our friendly team delivering specialist therapy services to children and young people across Buckinghamshire. This is an exciting opportunity to help shape and develop our school age therapy services across health, education and social care settings.

We offer:
• Excellent opportunities for CPD, secondments and career progression.
• Mentorship,
• Operational leads that are passionate about people, the service, growth and development.
• Creative, collaborative, and growth mindset space.
• Flexible working options including part-time hours.

As a Highly Specialist Occupational therapist you will:
• Work autonomously to assess and support children aged 4-19 with complex physical and psychological conditions. Design tailored intervention programmes to maximise their independence.
• Take a lead role in developing new care pathways, guidelines and training packages in specialist areas including chronic fatigue, DCD and high health needs.
• Provide expert coaching to guide therapists and nurture their development.
• Collaborate with our dedicated MDT to coordinate seamless care and achieve the best outcomes for your patients.
• To undertake accurate risk assessments in accordance with Trust policy and to ensure that risk to self, other staff and children/young people is always minimised . Risk assessments to include lone worker, work environments, and clinical risk when working with children & young people.
• To work at a highly specialist level in partnership with other members of the multidisciplinary team to manage complex cases
• To organise and manage appropriate delegation of patient care to specialist therapists and therapy assistants, acting as supervisor and mentor.
• Acknowledge physical and emotional demands of all aspects of the role and to utilise the procedures and systems that are in place to help manage this.
• To be responsible for the safe and competent use of all appropriate equipment.
• To maintain accurate and up to date documentation consistent with legal and organisational requirements.

Working for our organisation

Listen to why colleagues think we are a great place to work! -

What does Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust offer you?
• As part of our BHT family, you’ll benefit from learning and development opportunities to support your career progression.
• We offer flexible and agile working opportunities, alongside your NHS benefits of generous annual leave entitlement, pension and access to NHS discount schemes.
• We provide a range of health and wellbeing services to promote a healthy, happy workforce.

Why work for us?
• We’re committed to promoting inclusion and making sure all colleagues feel they belong. We encourage new colleagues from a diverse range of backgrounds to apply.
• As an employer, we aim to create a workplace where differences are valued and colleagues treat one another with dignity and respect.
• Greater diversity within our BHT family improves positive outcomes for the people and communities we serve.

What do we stand for?
• Our vision is to provide outstanding care, support healthy communities and be a great place to work.
• Our mission is to provide personal and compassionate care every time.

Our CARE values are collaborate, aspire, respect and enable

As a Highly Specialist Occupational therapist you will:
• Work autonomously to assess and support children aged 4-19 with complex physical and psychological conditions. Design tailored intervention programmes to maximise their independence.
• Take a lead role in developing new care pathways, guidelines and training packages in specialist areas including chronic fatigue, DCD and high health needs.
• Provide expert coaching to guide therapists and nurture their development.
• Collaborate with our dedicated MDT to coordinate seamless care and achieve the best outcomes for your patients.
• To undertake accurate risk assessments in accordance with Trust policy and to ensure that risk to self, other staff and children/young people is always minimised . Risk assessments to include lone worker, work environments, and clinical risk when working with children & young people.
• To work at a highly specialist level in partnership with other members of the multidisciplinary team to manage complex cases
• To organise and manage appropriate delegation of patient care to specialist therapists and therapy assistants, acting as supervisor and mentor.
• Acknowledge physical and emotional demands of all aspects of the role and to utilise the procedures and systems that are in place to help manage this.
• To be responsible for the safe and competent use of all appropriate equipment.
• To maintain accurate and up to date documentation consistent with legal and organisational requirements.

This advert closes on Friday 23 Feb 2024

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