Are you an Occupational Therapist with HCPC registration? Are you a student looking for your first job as a qualified Occupational Therapist ?
Join our large and inspirational Adult Therapies Service at Bristol NHS Foundation Trust - City and Weston as a Band 5 Occupational Therapist, where you will develop your career in-line with the RCOT Career Framework!
Our team is made up of 400 colleagues who collaboratively work across City & Weston sites.
You can find out more about the Adult Therapies Service here: Therapies - UHBW Careers
This is an exciting cross-site rotational role where you will gain specialist skills and knowledge to help develop and guide you through your career.
We have full time/ part time and fixed term vacancies available.
Face-to-face interviews will be held in Bristol or Weston.
Main Duties And Responsibilities
Within this role, you will rotate across a variety of specialities and sites across both City & Weston. These rotations include:
- Medicine
- Trauma and Orthopaedics
- Critical Care, Cardiac and Surgery
- Older Person Therapy including Front Door
- Stroke
- Paediatrics
Benefits
During your rotation, you’ll be building relationships with new teams and adapting to new environments, all that offer unique benefits and incentives such as:
- Preceptorship programme
- Supportive, integrated team working
- IST/journal clubs/ research opportunities
- Protected and regular Clinical supervision from a Senior OT /Team Lead OT/ Clinical Specialist OT
- Service development and QI projects
- Cake rotas
Want to hear more about the benefits of working at UHBW? Click here for more staff benefits: https://www.uhbwcareers.nhs.uk/staff-benefits
Bristol NHS Foundation Trust brings together more than 28,000 staff to deliver over 160 clinical services across thirteen hospital locations, operating from three main sites at Southmead, Bristol city centre and Weston.
With an annual turnover of £2.3 billion, we are now one of the largest NHS trusts in the United Kingdom. Our hospitals are spread across Bristol and Weston, join us and you can enjoy the very best of both worlds; city living within a stone’s throw of the countryside or beside the seaside, both with easy access to all that the South West has to offer.
Bristol NHS Foundation Trust values all people as individuals. As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them. Anonymous information will be used from your application in order to ensure we’re meeting our pledge.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Claire Hayward Job title: Occupational Therapist/ Pathway Lead Email address: clairex.hayward@uhbw.nhs.uk Telephone number: 01173421469
We encourage you to get in touch with Occupational Therapist and Pathway Lead – Claire, for an informal chat on 0117 342 1469 or email Claire.haywardx@uhbw.nhs.uk.
Fancy meeting in person? Please get in touch and ask for a tour of the department!
Or Charlotte Ballantine, Team Lead OT, charlotte,ballantine @uhbs.nhs.uk
0117 342 1469
