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Job overview

The Occupational Therapy department has an opportunity available for an enthusiastic and experienced Occupational Therapist to join our integrated Acute Inpatient Therapy team at PAH.

This is a specialist post within our Emergency Department (ED), Short Stay assessment wards and Frailty service. We pride ourselves on delivering a high-quality service in a fast-paced, challenging environment. We provide comprehensive assessments and treatment plans with the aim of preventing deconditioning, unnecessary admissions and facilitating timely discharge.

You will work collaboratively with key stakeholders to further develop innovative ways of working that align with the NHS 5 year plan, this includes participation in workstreams including virtual frailty clinic, involvement in the implementation of discharge home to assess model within the OT service and development of meaningful activities programme within the Frailty Assessment Unit.

You will work closely alongside other therapists within the integrated therapy model, developing further skills and knowledge. You will have the opportunity to support junior team members within formal and informal supervision. You will be expected to support students on clinical placement.

We are looking for a skilled, passionate, confident OT to join us to become part of an innovative and friendly team, to share in our trust values of patient at heart in everything we do and to promote Everyday Excellence and creative collaboration.

Main duties of the job

You will be responsible for providing a high standard of assessment, advice, treatment and evaluation of patients in the Emergency Department, Frailty Assessment Unit and Short Stay  Assessment Units. This may include patients with diverse presentations and complex physical and psychological conditions.

You will work as part of an MDT to support patient flow, working across ED and Frailty assessment unit using clinical reasoning to identify appropriate frailty patients and facilitating patient transfers where possible, this will be dependent on their individual presentation and needs. You will be responsible for a clinical caseload involving complex case management and the facilitation od challenging discharges.

You will also have the opportunity to build on your previous experience to further develop your clinical and managerial competencies to be part of a dynamic team to drive forward future developments.

It is required that you work as an autonomous professional according to the Royal College of Occupational Therapy Professional Conduct and Standards, and the Health Care Professions Council's regulations.

Working for our organisation

Our Organisation

The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust (PAHT) provides a full range of general acute, outpatient and diagnostic services at The Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow, the Herts and Essex Hospital in Bishop’s Stortford, and St Margaret’s Hospital in Epping.

We employ 3,500 staff and serve a local population of around 350,000 people living in west Essex and east Hertfordshire, centred on the M11 corridor and the towns of Harlow, Bishop’s Stortford and Epping. Our extended catchment area incorporates a population of up to 500,000 and includes the areas of Hoddesdon, Cheshunt and Broxbourne in Hertfordshire.

Our Values

The Princess Alexandra Promise to our patients as identified by our 3 values which will contribute to improving our patient experiences:

Patient at heart – Always holding the patient and their wellbeing at the centre of our thoughts and efforts

Everyday excellence – Sharing and celebrating our successes, being honest when we get it wrong, giving us the ability to learn from both

Creative collaboration – Knowing strength comes from diversity, we combine our experiences, skills and talents, working together to find new and better ways to care

The Trust believes in investing in all our staff and rewarding high standards of care whilst building for excellence and in return we expect our staff to uphold the Trust values to the highest level.