BAND 8A

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Occupational Therapist to join our acute therapies management team. We are looking for an experienced OT with strong clinical skills and management experience to join our supportive therapy management team. This may be your first experience in a management role or you may have lots of experience.

ESSENTIAL CRITERIA

• Clinical leadership skills
• Effective communication skills
• Ability to influence and problem solve
• Positive attitude to change and flexible approach
• Ability to prioritise and work independently
• Committed to an integrated approach
  Your application: Please ensure that you have read the job description and person specification and that your supporting statement reflects these, as your application will be assessed and scored against these criteria.
  References: You will be required to provide 3 years of employment/educational history. We do not accept references from personal email addresses such as Hotmail, Gmail etc. therefore please ensure you are providing professional working email addresses within your application form. If you are unable to provide professional email addresses and are invited to an interview, please ensure you advise the interviewers of this - otherwise, this may delay your pre-employment checks.
  Closing date: In order to streamline recruitment within our Trust, we reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications.
  Shortlisting: You will only be contacted via e-mail/SMS by the SWL Recruitment Hub if you are successfully shortlisted for this post. Please ensure that you check your Trac registered e-mail regularly.
  DBS: We are committed to safeguarding children and adults who are at risk of abuse. As such, if this post will have access to children or vulnerable adults, you will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check. However, all employees have a responsibility for safeguarding children and vulnerable adults in the course of their duties and for ensuring that they are aware of the specific duties relating to their role.

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APPLICANT REQUIREMENTS

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

MAIN DUTIES OF THE JOB

To provide a high quality and responsive patient focused service to the patients of Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust resulting in good evidenced based outcomes.
The acute therapy service achieves this through providing assessment, diagnosis and effective treatment and management of patients accessing Occupational Therapy services in Epsom Hospital and St Helier Hospital and enabling access to community and other services for patients with Physiotherapy requirements.
To reduce length of stay, reduce duplication, increase response rates and single assessment processes across the patient pathway
To be the Professional Lead for acute Occupational Therapy
To operationally lead and develop Acute Occupational Therapy services on the acute sites for both adults and paediatrics.

Acute Therapy services comprise the following teams:

• Occupational Therapy
• Physiotherapy
• Dietetics
• Speech and Language Therapy
• Admin Team

The post holder is will have primary operational responsibility for Occupational Therapy. However it is expected that the post holder will work closely with the other Acute Therapy Managers and professional leads to provide cross cover for each other as required.

DETAILED JOB DESCRIPTION AND MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

Please see the attached supporting job description and person specification document which contains more information about the role and requirements. Please ensure your application refers to the job description and person specification.
The recruiting team reserve the right to close this advertisement early once applications reach maximum limit.