Senior Occupational Therapist

Reference

PRI90765

Location

Priory Hospital Arnold, Ramsdale Park, Calverton Road, Arnold, Nottinghamshire NG5 8PT

Priory Group Division

Healthcare

Salary

£35,392

Hours

37.5 hours

Vacancy Type

Sessional

Job Advert Role Description

Priory Hospital Arnold, near Nottingham, provides acute and psychiatric intensive care services to those in need across Nottinghamshire. We work closely with referring Trusts to achieve minimum lengths of stay, and are able to provide an extension to NHS care pathways during times of fluctuating demand. The service offers a multidisciplinary team approach, working collaboratively to support patients through periods of crisis. The hospital comprises of 4 wards, 2 Acute wards and 2 PICU wards with a total of 52 inpatient beds

We are looking to recruit an Occupational Therapist to join the OT team at Priory Hospital Arnold.

As an Occupational Therapist you will be working across our Acute and PICU services within the Hospital. You will be expected to work autonomously, as well as part of a team to provide high quality and patient centred care.

Your role as the Occupational Therapist will be to provide a high quality assessment and treatment programme for the patients that you work with in line with their needs and strengths in a recovery focused manner, whilst also keeping the patient safe.

The OT team is part of the wider Therapies Team at the hospital with a variety of disciplines.  We provide regular clinical and management supervision and support and we also offer in-service training. 

Good time management, motivation, and interpersonal skills are required alongside an appropriate professional Occupational Therapy degree.

All applicants must be HCPC registered.

Division DBS info

About us

As one of the UK’s leading providers of behavioural care and specialist support services, Priory promise a challenging and fulfilling career with the support of a world class organisation willing to invest in your development. 

Across our network of hospitals, residential care homes and supported living services, we are making a real and lasting difference to the lives of the people we support.

Priory maintains that vaccination remains our very best line of defence against COVID-19 and believes that our colleagues working with vulnerable individuals have a professional duty to be vaccinated.  As part of our wider infection control efforts, and to meet our commissioner and customer requirements, we continue to record vaccination status for all colleagues and we therefore request that you disclose this information as part of your application. Your vaccination status will not affect any offer of employment and will be held in line with GDPR requirements.  We thank you for your understanding. 

Disclosure

All roles will be subject to a successful disclosure at an appropriate level from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS), Access NI or Disclosure Scotland. We are an equal opportunities employer. Priory will cover the cost of a DBS check.

Closing Date

31/05/2024