Occupational Therapist/Physiotherapist – Home First

Sanctuary Personnel, a dedicated and award-winning recruitment agency looking for an experienced and dedicated Band 7 Occupational Therapist/Physiotherapist to take on a new locum role.

Location: Bletchley

Contract Type: Locum ongoing contract

Pay Rate: £30 per hour (assignment rate)

Benefits of working with us:

• Fully online and paperless registration service
• Free DBS and compliance service including paid for mandatory e-learning and practical training modules (if applicable)
• Exclusive access to roles that aren’t available with other agencies; NHSBT, The Home Office and Vaccination Centres (private and public) are just some of the projects we’ve recently recruited to.
• £250 refer a friend bonus once referral has worked 100 hours (uncapped – T&Cs apply)
• Registration body costs covered based on length of service (T&Cs apply)
• Find your own job bonus – Receive £250 for bringing your own position to us
• Clinical governance and revalidation support from an in-house qualified health professional with over 15 years experience
• Your own dedicated consultant with extensive experience within the healthcare sector
• Daily payroll and in-house payroll system

Duties of the Occupational Therapist/Physiotherapist:

• Provide expert clinical advice and support with complex hospital discharges.
• Responsible for the provision of leadership and clinical supervision of Therapists within the service.
• Work across health and social care to prevent avoidable, unplanned hospital admission and prevent re admission.
• Hold a caseload of patients.
• Provide professional and personal support for other Home 1st staff and colleagues to work to build and maintain a cohesive team focus.
• Assess and implement specialist Therapy treatments and programmes.
• To use analytical and judgment skills on a variety of Therapy related problems.
• To gain valid informed consent and have the capacity to work within a legal framework with people who lack capacity to consent to treatment.
• Encourage participation of people’s families and carers in decision making and planning mutually agreed objectives.
• Work in collaboration with other Home 1st Leads to ensure the delivery of a coordinated multidisciplinary activity, and organize changes to working practice.
• Propose and implement team polices/amends team policies, which may impact on other members of the Multidisciplinary team.
• Provide day to day Management support of the Therapy team, including participation in recruitment, appraisal and performance management.
• To be responsible for the safe and competent use of all appropriate equipment, to initiate regular audits, including training and competencies’ for unqualified staff.
• Updates client’s records using an electronic database.
• Have responsibility for the monitoring and prioritization and allocation of work across the Therapy team.
• Establish and maintain a high profile and proactive partnership with Milton Keynes University Hospital Foundation Trust (MKUHFT) and Milton Keynes Council (MKC) to support and contribute to the development of improved services for the people of Milton Keynes along with the achievement of organisational strategic objectives.
• To lead on CQC activity in partnership with the team including NICE guidance.
• Be responsible to ensure that appropriate systems are in place to ensure that there is effective assessment, care planning and review of people referred to intermediate care services. This will include supporting and implementing the principles of interdisciplinary working and person centred care planning.
• Acquire an understanding of clinical and HR policy and procedures within CNWL.
• Ensure Therapists working in the service have personal development plans and annual appraisals.
• Co-ordinate duty rotas, annual leave and training, in accordance with the relevant leave policy to ensure adequate staffing for the continued effective functioning of the service.
• To ensure all agreed policies and procedures are met, including Health and Safety

Requirements of the Occupational Therapist/Physiotherapist:

• Degree or equivalent in Occupational Therapy/Physiotherapy
• Recent UK experience working as an Occupational Therapist/Physiotherapist
• Recent NHS experience
• Registered with the HCPC

Contact:

This Occupational Therapist/Physiotherapist job is advertised by Alex Blackwell; 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.