Rotational Occupational Therapist

We are a leading NHS Foundation Hospital Trust at the forefront of delivering high quality acute services at a local, regional and national level.

We are a leading NHS Foundation Hospital Trust at the forefront of delivering high quality acute services at a local, regional and national level.

We are seeking to appoint a proactive Band 5 Occupational Therapist to join our current dynamic and motivated group of therapists on the rotational scheme.

You will be based within a specialist team at one of our locations within the Trust providing Occupational Therapy assessment and intervention for patients within the defined specialist clinical area, gaining experience of working in a variety of settings and working as an integral member of the multidisciplinary team.

The variety of specialities included on the Band 5 rotation include Medicine (Including Older People’s Medicine) Surgery (Vascular, Plastics and General Surgery), Orthopaedics (Trauma and Elective), Major Trauma Rehabilitation, , Paediatrics, Neurosciences, Hyper acute Stroke and Stroke rehabilitation, Adult Oncology .

Band 5 rotational posts are designed to consolidate and build on graduate skills and academic knowledge, giving the newly qualified occupational therapist a broad practical experience of a range of patients and conditions and areas of work.

Post 1 - Full Time permanent

Post 2 - Full Time fixed term 12 months

Post 3 - Full Time fixed term 6 months

To identify appropriate patients and carry out OT assessments and interventions to promote independence and facilitate discharge from hospital.

To be responsible for your own caseload.

To work as part of the wider multi-disciplinary team to ensure the highest quality, holistic, patient centred care.

To provide support to student practitioners and support staff.

To actively participate in learning opportunities within the department.

To identify appropriate patients and carry out OT assessments and interventions to promote independence and facilitate discharge from hospital.

To be responsible for your own caseload.

To work as part of the wider multi-disciplinary team to ensure the highest quality, holistic, patient centred care.

To provide support to student practitioners and support staff.

To actively participate in learning opportunities within the department.

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

With around 2 million contacts with patients every year, we deliver care from:

• Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI)
• Freeman Hospital
• Newcastle Dental Hospital
• Cramlington Manor Walks
• Urgent treatment centres
• Newcastle Fertility Centre
• Northern Centre for Cancer Care, North Cumbria
• Northern Genetics Service

These include a range of flagship services which deliver cutting-edge care (supported by state-of-the-art diagnostic services in both radiology and pathology) and are a catalyst for innovation to support pioneering clinical practice in the NHS.

We also have offices at Regent Point in Gosforth and community sites.

Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust under ‘Documents to download’ or ‘Supporting documents’.

For further information on The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust please visit:
Careers | Newcastle Hospitals | NHS | Newcastle Hospitals and Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

You will receive a structured…