Sanctuary Personnel, a dedicated and award-winning recruitment agency with a TrustPilot score of 4.9/5 and nearly 1000 reviews is currently looking for an experienced and dedicated Band 7 Occupational Therapist to take on a new locum role.
Location: Kettering
Contract Type: Locum ongoing contract
Pay Rate: £30 per hour (assignment rate)
Benefits of working with us:
- Effortless Registration: Say goodbye to paperwork! Our fully online and paperless registration service streamlines the process, making it convenient and hassle-free for you.
- Compliance Made Easy: Enjoy peace of mind with our free DBS and compliance service, which includes paid-for mandatory e-learning and practical training modules tailored to your needs.
- Exclusive Opportunities: Unlock access to prestigious Occupational Therapist roles that you won't find elsewhere. From collaborating with NHSBT to supporting vital projects at The Home Office and Vaccination Centres or relocating candidates to Australia, The Falkland Islands and many other destinations, our network opens doors to diverse and impactful assignments in the UK and globally.
- Expert Guidance and Support: Benefit from personalised clinical governance and revalidation support from our in-house qualified health professional with over 15 years of experience. We're here to ensure you're always on top of your game.
- Rewarding Referral Program: Spread the word and reap the rewards! Refer an Occupational Therapist and receive a generous £250 bonus once they've completed just 100 hours of work. The best part? There's no limit to how many Occupational Therapists you can refer.
- Professional Development: Working as a locum Occupational Therapist provides opportunities for continuous professional development. You may encounter new challenges, technologies, and best practices in different settings, which can enhance your clinical skills and knowledge.
Duties of the Occupational Therapist:
- To provide a highly specialised Therapy service to professional standards within Urgent Care and Acute Medicine.
- This includes urgent care and acute medical wards alongside their MDT colleagues. They will provide advice and guidance as required.
- The post holder will be an experienced therapist who will act as the advanced specialist within the Urgent Care and Acute Medicine Team.
- Work both autonomously to assess patients which will include initial history, functional based assessment, intervention, equipment provision and recommendations to address any care needs identified within the MDT.
- Demonstrate safe, senior clinical decision making and expert patient care.
- To work across traditional boundaries and must be able to make informed decisions within their speciality and scope of practice / competencies that have been completed to achieve this.
- Demonstrate critical thinking in the clinical decision making process.
- Work collaboratively within the ward MDT to meet the needs of the patients and will be expected to play a key role in the service delivery and adhere to policy and procedure. They will be expected to partake in the education of staff in the speciality of Urgent Care and Acute Medicine and will be actively involved in evidenced based care, audit and service development.
- Attend designated Urgent Care and Acute Medicine meetings with the sole aim of implementing and improving services for our patients.
- Provide high quality and evidence based care across the seven day service.
Requirements of the Occupational Therapist:
- Degree or equivalent in Occupational Therapy
- Recent UK experience working as an Occupational Therapist
- Recent NHS experience
- Registered with the HCPC
Contact:
This Occupational Therapist job is advertised by Alex Blackwel; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.
We welcome applications from Band 5 Occupational Therapists aswell as Band 6 & 7 as we have multiple vacancies that could be suitable. NHS experience is very desirable for many of our jobs.
Regretfully we are only able to respond to candidates who meet these requirements for this Occupational Therapy role as we need to meet our clients requirements.
Reasonable Adjustments:
If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into you work placement.
