Vacancies

Band 6 Occupational Therapist- Recruitment Open Day

Main Responsibility

As a Occupational Therapist you will:

• Assess patient understanding of treatment proposals, gain valid informed consent and have the capacity to work within a legal framework with all patients.
• To perform comprehensive assessment of patients with diverse presentations, complex physical and psychological conditions and multi-pathologies using clinical reasoning skills. 
• Formulate and deliver specialised individual occupational therapy treatment programmes based on a sound knowledge of evidence-based practice and treatment options using clinical assessment, reasoning skills and utilizing a wide range of highly specialized physical, sensory and cognitive treatment skills following analysis of information received from the patient, carers and referrer, including any other professional involved.
• Formulate accurate prognoses for rehabilitation and recommend best course of intervention, developing comprehensive discharge plans, liaising with relevant professionals and more senior colleagues as appropriate.
• Evaluate patient progress, reassess, and alter treatment programmes if required.
• To represent the therapy team/service internally and externally regarding Occupational Therapy services in their clinical area.
• To manage clinical risk within own patient caseload.

The Ideal Candidate

You will be HCPC registered and have a BSc/Diploma in Occupational Therapy

On the day we will have recruitment advisors hiring managers, and colleagues from each banding range. You will be able to discuss with colleagues how they have progressed through the bands and how we have been able to support with professional development. As we will have recruitment advisors available on the day we can talk you through interviewing techniques and support you with the writing of your CV and how to best display your skillset. If you have your CV please bring this long, we can even offer interviews on the day with our hiring managers!

Package Description

We are holding a Recruitment Open Day in Kent on Wednesday 11^th September 2024; this is a great opportunity for you to come and see all the great work the services at HCRG Care Group in Kent provide. You will be able to discuss opportunities with the management team get an understanding for the type of work we do and how you could be an integral part of this.

As a Band 6 Occupational Therapist you will receive Agenda for Change Terms and Conditions and an NHS pension as well as having access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
• Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
• An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year 
• The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with 100% of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission

About the Company

We change lives by transforming health and care. 

Established in 2006 we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do. 

We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone. 

While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can. 

As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks. 

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