Specialist Occupational Therapist | Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 28 March 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £42,471 - £50,364 p.a inc. HCA |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 27 April 2024 |
| Location: | London, SW16 2DQ |
| Company: | Guys and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6174739/196-LIS8334 |
Summary
Are you an enthusiastic and dynamic Occupational Therapist looking to be part of the Rehab and Reablement team that regularly celebrates success and positive outcome and were recently nominated for the Guy’s and St Thomas’ (GSTT) award “strive to be the best”?
Embracing the power of technology in enhancing patient care, we use EPIC, Rover and Dragon, to enable us to take “on-the-go “notes. This reduces the level of paperwork that builds up and managing workload evenly throughout the day, allowing us to focus on the most important aspect of our role, our patients. We work along a diverse team that mirrors the Lambeth community that we serve.
We are an integrated health and social care MDT, working with adults over the age of 18 who have experienced a recent change in their function secondary to physical and/or cognitive changes. We provide up to 6 weeks of tailored rehabilitation that optimises their engagement and independence of their ADL’s.
As part of the Kings health trust, working at GSTT provides opportunities for comprehensive training and development to continuously improve patient care and employee career progression.
Intermediate Care Lambeth provides integrated health and social care at home to adults aged 18 years & older who live in the borough of Lambeth. The people that we support have a range of diagnoses and clinical presentations.
Our service aims to:
• Facilitate the safe discharge of people from healthcare in hospital to healthcare at home.
• Provide intensive, short term multi-disciplinary rehabilitation & care support to promote functional independence.
Our Professional Offer to You:
• Further develop your clinical skills, e.g. assess for suitable equipment, minor home adaptations, cognitive assessment, functional and Moving & Handling assessments.
• Develop your skills in holistic assessment, problem solving and joint working with other health and social care colleagues.
• Develop management and operational skills
• Access appropriate GSTT leadership development training courses to support career development.
• Support you to be involved in OT meetings.
• Provide you with supervision and clinical support.
At GSTT we are committed to providing:
• Professional expert advice, including access to our Professional Leads in our Community and Hospital settings.
• An annual appraisal and PDR.
• Structured in-service development programs and supervisions.
• Support to undertake research, audit and service evaluation.
• Training links to London Southbank and King’s College Universities.
• Support to develop your skills in preparation and presentations
Guys and St. Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust:
From our 5 main hospitals, and in the community, we provide a full range of lifelong, general and specialist care, as well as clinical research, innovation, education and training.
We're a diverse and welcoming organisation, and are incredibly proud of our 25,500 staff and the dedication they show to our patients and each other.
We aim to be outstanding in everything we do and to provide high quality and compassionate care and experience to all of our patients and families.
As a leading centre of clinical research with a long history of innovation and medical firsts, we are able to provide the latest and most advanced treatments. We're ranked top in England for the number of trials open for patients to join and in the top 10 for the number of patients recruited to help us in our research.
Together with our partners in King's Health Partners, we form 1 of the UK's 8 Academic Health Science Centres.
Our world famous teaching hospitals train the doctors, nurses and healthcare professionals of the future. GKT School of Medical Education is our medical school, run jointly with King's College London and King's College Hospital.
We're guided by our valuesin everything we do and, as one of the largest employers in London, we reflect the diversity, opportunity and ambition of our communities and the people we serve
Job Summary
-To have responsibility for specialist rehabilitation and therapy assessment,
specialist intervention, care planning and review of individual clients on
caseload.
-To delegate rehabilitation and care tasks to RSWs and Senior RSWs.-To provide case management for adults and older people through
intensive short term support and rehabilitation programmes. Goal setting
with clients in order to maximise their independence in the community,
facilitate early discharge from hospital, reduce reliance on care and
reduce admissions to long term domiciliary care.
-To work, frequently as a lone practitioner and at times in conjunction with
team colleagues, across a variety of locations within the community
including client’s homes and residential care settings to meet the
individual needs of the multi-cultural population in an inner city area.
-To work as an autonomous practitioner complying with the standards set
by the regulatory body (Health Professions Council), professional body
(Chartered Society of Physiotherapy), government, Trust and department,
thereby being professionally and legally responsible and accountable for
all aspects of own work and to meet the requirements for professional
registration.
-To work as part of a flexible multidisciplinary team, across traditional
professional boundaries to meet the needs of clients using a holistic and
client centred approach
-To be responsible for practice, education, assessment, mentorship and
preceptorship of students and new/junior members of staff. To work
towards organisational priorities and achieving service aims.
-To support the department’s commitment to meeting patient needs and
delivering excellence it is essential the post holder be able to work their
hours flexibly and contribute fully to both existing and new rotas over a 7
day week, including weekday and weekend on call shifts.
This advert closes on Sunday 14 Apr 2024