Bank Occupational Therapy Assistant - Band 3

Bank Occupational Therapy Assistant - Band 3 Redhill, South West England, England

Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust
Full Time Redhill, South West England, England 11.67 GBP HOURLY Today
Job description

Welcome to a new career in the NHS, a rewarding career in Occupational Therapy. Occupational therapy is based on the belief that a persons health and wellbeing is maintained by their ability to participate in activities that are important to them. That is what we support our patients to do. We work together to ensure an individual’s full potential and functional independence is developed or maintained while with us in hospital and onwards into their journey home.

Our department operates an integrated therapy service, where Occupational Therapists and Physiotherapists work alongside each other in each of the clinical areas. The culture of multi-disciplinary working is well established and respected within the hospital.

  • To undertake specific support work to aid the rehabilitation and discharge of patients on our acute in patient wards under the guidance of qualified therapists or as directed by set standards and protocols.
  • To carry their own caseloads following treatment plans as put in place by a qualified therapist
  • To carry out this specific work with patients and report progress back to the therapists, informing of any problems.
  • To support the therapy team with non-clinical tasks, including equipment and administration tasks.
  • To ensure the individuals full potential and functional independence is developed or maintained.
  • To contribute to service development and be responsible for their own development.
  • To participate in rostered seven day and extended hours working as needed.
For further information, please see the attached trust job description and person specification for a full list of duties and responsibilities.

We provide emergency and non-emergency services to the residents of East Surrey, North-East West Sussex, and South Croydon, including the major towns of Crawley, Horsham, Reigate and Redhill; a community of over 535,000 people. We provide acute and complex services and a range of outpatient, diagnostic services whilst Crawley Hospital and Horsham in West Sussex and Caterham Dene Hospital and Oxted Health Centre in Surrey provide less complex planned services. In 2019 the Care Quality Commission (CQC) rated our services as ‘Outstanding’ and we are one of the best performing Trusts in England:
  • Winners of Health Service Journal Acute Trust of the year award 2021
  • National Patient Safety Awards winner and strive to be a beacon for safety in all that we do
  • We are in the top 20% nationally for staff recommending the Trust as a place to work or receive treatment
  • Our staff rate us the best in the country among comparable acute trusts when asked if they would recommend the Trust as a place to work and when asked whether care of patients is the organisation’s top priority
  • Our workforce are amongst the most motivated in the country; we achieved the top acute hospital score in the country for staff engagement in the last national staff survey
Once you understand the requirements outlined in the advert, please ensure your application accurately reflects where you match them. For further information regarding the role please read the attached Job Description and Person Specification.

Bank Occupational Therapy Assistant - Band 3
Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust

www.surreyandsussex.nhs.uk
Redhill, United Kingdom
Michael Wilson
$25 to $50 million (USD)
1001 to 5000 Employees
Hospital
Healthcare Services & Hospitals
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