Band 5 Rotational Occupational Therapist
Torquay, England, United Kingdom Full-time Posted 1 week ago
Are you a newly qualified or early-career Occupational Therapist looking for a role where you can grow, explore and truly make a difference?
This is more than just your first job , it’s a supported development journey.
We are delighted to offer an exciting opportunity to join our Band 5 Rotational Occupational Therapy Programme at Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust. This structured rotation provides the ideal environment to build confidence, develop a broad range of clinical skills, and discover the career path that’s right for you.
We offer a comprehensive Preceptorship Programme, giving you the time, support and guidance to grow into a confident, capable Occupational Therapist within a supportive team environment.
Based in the beautiful Torbay and South Devon area, you’ll be working across a diverse patch that includes stunning coastline, rural communities and vibrant towns. Our services span hospital and community settings, giving you the opportunity to work with a wide range of populations and truly understand whole-system care across urban and rural environments.
You will gain experience across a wide range of services including acute hospital care, community teams, intermediate care and specialist areas, working with people at every stage of their recovery journey to support independence, wellbeing and meaningful participation in daily life.
We provide an excellent opportunity for you to develop your skills and gain the foundations for your future career! Our rotation of 13 different placements, offers the opportunity to work in a variety of locations in the stunning South Devon area covering coast, countryside and urban working in a variety of practice areas such as acute and community hospitals, social care, paediatrics and intermediate care teams.
Our staff workforce is caring, committed, inclusive and focused on quality. We focus on solutions and people’s strengths, and encourage outside the box thinking and embrace innovation and change wherever it can drive improvement.
If you share our values and vision and are passionate about working with people on what matters to them, you could be a real asset to Team Torbay and South Devon.
Why work with us
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Adele Friend Job title: Head of Occupational Therapy Services Email address: adele.friend@nhs.net Telephone number: 07833192109
This is more than just your first job , it’s a supported development journey.
We are delighted to offer an exciting opportunity to join our Band 5 Rotational Occupational Therapy Programme at Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust. This structured rotation provides the ideal environment to build confidence, develop a broad range of clinical skills, and discover the career path that’s right for you.
We offer a comprehensive Preceptorship Programme, giving you the time, support and guidance to grow into a confident, capable Occupational Therapist within a supportive team environment.
Based in the beautiful Torbay and South Devon area, you’ll be working across a diverse patch that includes stunning coastline, rural communities and vibrant towns. Our services span hospital and community settings, giving you the opportunity to work with a wide range of populations and truly understand whole-system care across urban and rural environments.
You will gain experience across a wide range of services including acute hospital care, community teams, intermediate care and specialist areas, working with people at every stage of their recovery journey to support independence, wellbeing and meaningful participation in daily life.
- Informal conversations are actively encouraged, please contact get in touch to discuss the role.
- To provide high quality, safe Occupational Therapy services in the right place, at the right time to support the people of Torbay and South Devon to live their lives , with meaningful occupation and purpose.
- This will involve working with individuals to assess their needs and develop plans to support them to achieve their aims, whilst working as part of a multidisciplinary team. As a member of the rotation you will change your work area every 6 months.
- Under the supervision of a Band 6 Occupational Therapist to work as a member of a multi-disciplinary team in the specified area providing specialist occupational therapy input aimed at achieving maximum independence for all patients in order to meet their occupational needs in a meaningful and purposeful manner. To work in accordance with the professional code of conduct and standards of practice and operational policy for this service.
We provide an excellent opportunity for you to develop your skills and gain the foundations for your future career! Our rotation of 13 different placements, offers the opportunity to work in a variety of locations in the stunning South Devon area covering coast, countryside and urban working in a variety of practice areas such as acute and community hospitals, social care, paediatrics and intermediate care teams.
Our staff workforce is caring, committed, inclusive and focused on quality. We focus on solutions and people’s strengths, and encourage outside the box thinking and embrace innovation and change wherever it can drive improvement.
If you share our values and vision and are passionate about working with people on what matters to them, you could be a real asset to Team Torbay and South Devon.
Why work with us
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Adele Friend Job title: Head of Occupational Therapy Services Email address: adele.friend@nhs.net Telephone number: 07833192109
