Are you an empathetic Occupational Therapist with a keen interest in acute care?
An exciting opportunity has become available for a Band 5 Occupational Therapist to join our fantastic NHS client’s acute care team based in Middlesex. This vacancy is available for the successful therapist to start as soon as possible, offering full time hours per week for an initial 3 month period.
The appointed Occupational Therapist will be required to perform assessment, treatment and discharge planning of patients within busy adult acute wards, working alongside other clinical staff such as physiotherapists, social workers and nurses. You will also need to ensure that you are proving a high quality, clinically effective and cost-effective service to all patients within the service. Applying therapists must have previous experience in working in acute.
Skills and experience needed:
- Previous experience within acute settings
- Previous discharge planning and Oncology experience
- Relevant degree/qualification in Occupational Therapy
- HCPC registration
Duties will include:
- Care-coordinating
- Attending MDT meetings
- Contribute to the holistic assessment of physical and mental wellbeing needs.
- Assessment and intervention of individual patients needs and progress.
- Treating patients for a range of moderate to complex mental health conditions
- Working with other healthcare professionals
What next?
If you are an Occupational Therapist that has excellent communication and rapport building skills and would like to create a positive change to those with mental health difficulties, we would like to hear from you as soon as possible.
Why Pulse?
- First class support and advice from our team of dedicated and experienced consultants
- £300 recommend a friend bonus scheme*
- Have access to ipoint our Electronic timesheet processing app
- Variety of work opportunities in both the NHS and private sectors
- Access to high-quality CPD training events
- Different payment methods available PAYE, Umbrella, PSC and LTD
*Terms and conditions apply
Not for you but know the ideal Occupational Therapist?
If you are registered with Pulse and recommend a friend to us, you can earn £300 per recommendation, once they have worked over 200 hours*.
We are unable to support or accept applications from candidates who are residents within the Red or Amber list of the Code of practice for the international recruitment of health and social care personnel in England, based on the World Health Organization (WHO) Workforce Support and Safeguard List.
