Occupational Therapist or Physiotherapist - Elderly Therapy

Are you an Occupational Therapist or Physiotherapist looking for an opportunity to develop your elderly frailty skills?

Are you keen to develop your leadership skills and have new opportunities?

Do you want to play a key role in improving the experience of our patients?

Do you want to be part of an innovative and highly motivated team, making positive changes happen daily?

This role offers the chance to experience clinical practice in Elderly Frailty, especially around preventing deconditioning. We have enthusiastic and experienced clinical teams, who will support your development.

You will have opportunities to support staff and students, as well as drive and lead in service development projects and quality patient care. The Trust actively promotes staff development through a structured support process, which will be available to you for both clinical and managerial supervision and encouragement to explore other learning opportunities.

If you have any queries or wish to discuss further, please do not hesitate to get in touch.

This post is not eligible for the Trust's relocation package.

If you are currently employed by the Trust and you wish to apply for this role on a secondment basis, you must seek permission from your current line manager before applying for the post.

Interviews for this position will be held face to face with no remote appointments available.

• To be a team member contributing to the delivery of therapy services across the Elderly speciality, alongside the senior leadership team.
• To provide specialist advice to therapy staff and other members of the multidisciplinary team and wider team.
• To use client-centred approaches to patient care.
• To participate in and provide clinical and management supervision.
• To contribute to multi-disciplinary team working.
• To contribute to and lead on service improvement and quality initiatives.
• To use the Trust electronic patient record system.
• To abide by all Trust policies and procedures.
• To be able to respond flexibly and creatively to challenges.

Trust Information Pack

https://yorkhospitals.pagetiger.com/hdjgxd

Our Benefits

We offer a range of benefits to support our staff including:

• Access to the NHS Pension Scheme, providing generous benefits upon retirement, as well as a lump sum and pension for dependants
• 27 days holiday rising to 33 days (depending on NHS Trust service)
• A variety of different types of paid and unpaid leave covering emergency and planned leave
• Confidential advice and support on personal, work, family and relationship issues, 24/7, from our Employee Assistance Programme
• NHS Car Lease scheme and Cycle to Work scheme
• An extensive range of learning and development opportunities
• Discounts on restaurants, getaways, shopping, motoring, cinema and finance from a range of providers

For further information on the fantastic range of benefits we offer please visit the Trust's dedicated Staff Benefits pages.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Andy Calvert Job title: AHP Team Manager Email address: [email protected] Telephone number: 07976670707