Band 7 Occupational Therapist

Job Title:  Occupational Therapist – Band 7
Location:  East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust – Colchester General Hospital – Langham and Nayland wards
Area:  Suffolk/Essex NHS
Salary:  £negotiable
Job Type:  Locum
Contract length:  Ongoing
Job details:  JD available on request:

• To be responsible for providing specialist assessment and treatment for patients across the medical wards ensuring appropriate pathways of care and communications via liaison and referral to other agencies as required.
• To work with the professional leads, in planning, co-ordinating, delivery and evaluating the Physiotherapy service provided on a day-to-day basis.
• To co-ordinate and provide supervision, appraisals and training for junior staff.
• To take a major / lead role in the advanced assessment and highly specialist treatment of patients within the speciality who may have complex acute or chronic presentations, and to determine clinical diagnosis and physiotherapy occupational therapy treatment indicated, and to maintain records as an autonomous practitioner.
• To be an autonomous practitioner.

Working hours: 37.5 hours per week. Monday to Friday, 08.30 – 16.30.
Code: U.010009.B12940