Job Description:

Bank Occupational Therapist

Cromwell Hospital, SW5 0TU

Bank role

Rate: Competitive rate of pay

We make health happen:

At Bupa, you'll have the freedom to develop new lines of care, with the flexibility and development opportunities to push your career further.

This is an opportunity for an enthusiastic and highly skilled Occupational Therapist able to become a part of our Therapy team. You will provide person-centred and evidence-based assessments, intervention, and discharge planning to adults with varied and often complex needs both in an inpatient and outpatient setting in the Hospital. You will receive referrals from the wards, Consultants, GP clinics, as well as other external routes including self-referrals.

Your role is to participate in the every-day management of the adult OT caseload, which covers neurology, oncology, orthopaedics, general medicine, and surgery. You may also have an opportunity to work in AICU setting and to contribute to service development and hospital-wide services/ projects.

You will have proven experience in neurology/ neurorehabilitation, complex discharge planning and equipment needs assessment, and have a sound knowledge of the NHS and UK Social Care systems, available services and referral processes.

You'll help us make health happen by:

• Acting as a resource of specialist advice for clients, customers, and colleagues within the scope of your experience and knowledge regarding your specialist area while working closely with your therapy colleagues and the wider teams in and outside the hospital.

• Supporting senior staff and management, and participate in service development, governance and quality assurance activities within your remit.

• Ensuring clear and efficient communication, whether verbal, non-verbal or written, both in expression and active listening, to facilitate comprehension of information.

• Adhering to local and professional standards of clinical care and documentation.

• Being responsible for participating in and encouraging continuing professional development and other activities to maintain evidence - based best practice.

Key Skills / Qualifications needed for this role:

• Degree in Occupational Therapy

• HCPC registration

• Evidence of experience managing a mixed caseload where demands for different skills are expected simultaneously.

• Able to work on own initiative, prioritise work and meet deadlines.

• Able to work autonomously as a part of a wider MDT

Benefits

Our benefits are designed to make health happen for our people. Viva is our global wellbeing programme and includes all aspects of our health - from mental and physical, to financial, social and environmental wellbeing. We support flexible working and have a range of family friendly benefits.

Joining Bupa in this role you will receive the following benefits and more:

• Discounted private medical insurance to help you keep fit and healthy
• Various family friendly benefits and discounts online from shopping, entertainment, eating out and insurance cover.
• Subsidised staff canteen and coffee shop lead by expert caterers.
• Subsidised gym membership to aid your physical and mental wellbeing

Why Bupa?

We're a health insurer and provider. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. Our people are all driven by the same purpose - helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We make health happen by being brave, caring and responsible in everything we do.

We encourage all of our people to "Be you at Bupa", we champion diversity, and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve. That's why we especially encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.

Bupa is a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer. This means we aim to offer an interview/assessment to every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the role. We'll make sure you are treated fairly and offer reasonable adjustments as part of our recruitment process to anyone that needs them.

At Bupa we strive to ensure all our of customers, patients and staff are safe. All employees have a duty to ensure that safeguarding children, young people and adults at risk is prioritised and acted on appropriately.

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