Senior Occupational Therapist

Your mission: You'll be providing an occupational therapy assessment and rehabilitation service to our patients.

Your Superpowers: You'll be an autonomous practitioner, managing your own caseload, assessing and treating patients, ensuring safe and effective discharges and adhering to professional standards and best practices.

Team working: You'll be building and nurturing strong relationships with your nursing, ACP, and AHP colleagues on the ward as well as your community colleagues in Adult Social Care and Community Therapy.

Guiding the Next Generation: You'll be supervising and supporting our therapy support workers and apprentices to build their skills by sharing your knowledge and experience.

We're seeking a motivated Occupational Therapist to join our supportive inpatient therapy team at Rutland Hospital, Oakham.

The role also includes working alongside colleagues at our Melton Mowbray site, only 20 minutes away, with free parking available at both sites.

What's the Deal?

Support galore: We have supervision and CPD opportunities that we encourage you dive into. You'll also be working closely with experienced colleagues who are ready to share their wisdom and help you shine.

Skills I need? Functional assessments of the older adult in an inpatient setting. Communication, teamwork and prioritisation skills. Positive attitude and can-do approach.

What will you develop? You will develop your prioritisation and time management skills as well as team working skills. You will also develop strong leadership skills supervising support workers and apprentices.

Patient group: Predominately older adults in a physical sub-acute / rehab setting. Wide variety of clinical conditions seen including amputees, fractures, frailty.

Be part of something bigger: You'll be a key player in our integrated and specialist community services, working alongside amazing teams and health and social care professionals.

Tech Savvy: You'll need to get comfortable with electronic patient records but don't worry, well give you all the training and support you need to become a digital whizz!, Experience: Previous work within an inpatient setting as a band 5 or band 6 Occupational Therapist is desirable for this role but not essential.

If you feel you have transferrable skills to support the assessment and rehabilitation of our patient group and to support a safe and effective discharge then have a chat with us about the post.

We may close the advert early, if we receive a sufficient number of applicants, so please apply as soon as possible. About Us Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) provides a range of community health, mental health and learning disability services for people of all ages. Delivered through over 100 settings from inpatient wards to out in the community, our 6,500 staff serve over 1 million people living in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland. We aim to develop a workforce that reflects our community. We actively implement equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and seek people who share our commitment. We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from underrepresented groups. Details of our benefits, leadership behaviours and other important information can be found in the Information for Applicants, please view the supporting documents. We will consider requests to work alternative hours or varied