Job description

Job responsibilities

All band 5 posts offer the opportunity to acquire specialist skills across the clinical settings, these posts are ideal in not just developing your clinical skills but developing key leadership roles in the service. The posts are full-time; however staff work across 7 days.

Return to Practice:

Occupational Therapists looking to return to practice - we have an exciting initiative to be able to provide a return to practice Band 5 Occupational Therapy post for Occupational Therapists who have had relevant previous experience in an acute setting and are ready to begin their return to practice. We will support you with experience working in different clinical settings and competencies to enable you to successfully complete your return to practice and re-registration with HCPC. You will initially be paid as a pre-registration Band 4 for 6 months until your return to practice process is completed and you have successfully gained your HCPC registration, when you will be re-graded as a Band 5 within the team.

For more information about this role and person specification, please refer to attached Job Description

Job responsibilities

All band 5 posts offer the opportunity to acquire specialist skills across the clinical settings, these posts are ideal in not just developing your clinical skills but developing key leadership roles in the service. The posts are full-time; however staff work across 7 days.

Return to Practice:

Occupational Therapists looking to return to practice - we have an exciting initiative to be able to provide a return to practice Band 5 Occupational Therapy post for Occupational Therapists who have had relevant previous experience in an acute setting and are ready to begin their return to practice. We will support you with experience working in different clinical settings and competencies to enable you to successfully complete your return to practice and re-registration with HCPC. You will initially be paid as a pre-registration Band 4 for 6 months until your return to practice process is completed and you have successfully gained your HCPC registration, when you will be re-graded as a Band 5 within the team.

For more information about this role and person specification, please refer to attached Job Description

Person Specification

Education, training and qualifications

Essential

• Professional Occupational Therapy Qualification
• HPC registered

Desirable

• Member of BAOT

Knowledge and Experience

Essential

• Broad range of student placements including both physical and mental health settings
• Experience of working within a multi -disciplinary team.
• Evidence of learning within student placements .
• O.T. models of practice and frames of reference
• Aware of national strategies .

Desirable

• Detailed knowledge of national strategies and impact on service provision.

Key competencies/Personal Qualities and Attributes

Essential

• Recognition of own future continuing Professional development needs.
• Good communicator - customer service problem solving skills.
• Able to continue to learn and develop in a clinical setting.
• Able to undertake moderate to intense physical effort throughout the day.
• Able to keep accurate and legible notes to professional standards.
• Understanding of legal responsibilities of the profession
• Ability to cope in stressful situations including emotional/aggressive patients/carers.
• Able to use own initiative
• Team player
• Punctual/Good timekeeper
• Good understanding of confidentiality
• Flexible/adaptable in order to gain good rotation base
• Ability to travel between venues
• Ability to motivate self and others
• Ability to present a professional image
• Respectful of:- rights of disabled people
• Respectful of- views and work of others
• Commitment to:- equal opportunities Commitment to:- social model of disability
• Is guided by standard operating procedures, good practice, established precedents and understands what results or standards are to be achieved. Someone is generally available for reference and work may be checked on a sample/random basis
• Responsible for data entry, text processing or storage of data, utilising paper or computer based data entry systems
• To provide high quality, evidence-based care across the seven-day service as the service requires

Desirable

• Evidence of post graduate training if not 1st post.
• Basic computer skills

Education, training and qualifications

Essential

• Professional Occupational Therapy Qualification
• HPC registered

Desirable

• Member of BAOT

Knowledge and Experience

Essential

• Broad range of student placements including both physical and mental health settings
• Experience of working within a multi -disciplinary team.
• Evidence of learning within student placements .
• O.T. models of practice and frames of reference
• Aware of national strategies .

Desirable

• Detailed knowledge of national strategies and impact on service provision.

Key competencies/Personal Qualities and Attributes

Essential

• Recognition of own future continuing Professional development needs.
• Good communicator - customer service problem solving skills.
• Able to continue to learn and develop in a clinical setting.
• Able to undertake moderate to intense physical effort throughout the day.
• Able to keep accurate and legible notes to professional standards.
• Understanding of legal responsibilities of the profession
• Ability to cope in stressful situations including emotional/aggressive patients/carers.
• Able to use own initiative
• Team player
• Punctual/Good timekeeper
• Good understanding of confidentiality
• Flexible/adaptable in order to gain good rotation base
• Ability to travel between venues
• Ability to motivate self and others
• Ability to present a professional image
• Respectful of:- rights of disabled people
• Respectful of- views and work of others
• Commitment to:- equal opportunities Commitment to:- social model of disability
• Is guided by standard operating procedures, good practice, established precedents and understands what results or standards are to be achieved. Someone is generally available for reference and work may be checked on a sample/random basis
• Responsible for data entry, text processing or storage of data, utilising paper or computer based data entry systems
• To provide high quality, evidence-based care across the seven-day service as the service requires

Desirable

• Evidence of post graduate training if not 1st post.
• Basic computer skills

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Kettering General Hospital

Rothwell Road

Kettering

NN16 8UZ

Employer's website

https://www.kgh.nhs.uk/working-for-us (Opens in a new tab)