Senior Occupational Therapist | Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 17 April 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £42,471 - £50,364 Pa Inclusive |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 17 May 2024 |
| Location: | London, W2 1NY |
| Company: | IMPERIAL COLLEGE HEALTHCARE NHS TRUST |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6235248/290-MIC-1084 |
Summary
Are you looking for a Band 6 role to enhance your clinical skills and leadership development in an acute setting?
We have a full time rotational band 6 opportunity in our acute, emergency and specialist medicine team at St Mary’s Hospital, Paddington.
Wards covered in the nine months rotations are: Accident and Emergency, Acute Assessment wards, Hepatology, Gastroenterology, Infectious diseases and medicine for the elderly wards. You will work in a large dynamic and friendly integrated therapy team, and will have an opportunity to work with an effective MDT on the wards to provide a safe and high quality care for our patients.
You will be required to work closely with band 7 OT and band 5 rotational OT to plan and co-ordinate discharges for patients on medicine and medicine for the elderly wards. The post holder will be liaising with community Home first teams, Adult Social Care teams and Complex discharge teams; supervising and supporting band 5 OT staff and educate OT students on placements.
The successful applicant will have a broad range of clinical experience at band 5 level. It includes carrying out home and access visits, assessing for wheelchairs and equipment provision, co-ordinating safe and effective discharges and completing referrals to community teams for follow-up.
• This is a rotational post across the different specialities within the Medical Occupational Therapy Team at St Mary’s Hospital. Opportunities on this rotation include; Specialist Medicine, Elderly Medicine, Acute Medicine and Emergency Medicine. This role involves working on a 7 day rota.
• The Specialist Medicine Occupational Therapy Team work across the Specialist Medicine wards at St Mary’s Hospital. Patients present with a wide range of medical conditions including frailty, falls, infectious diseases, gastro and endocrine, hepatology and multiple medical pathologies and life limiting conditions. The team’s aim is to maximise the patient’s functional ability, taking a rehabilitative approach to acute care to ensure their preferred discharge destination is achieved.
• The Emergency Medicine Occupational Therapy Team provides a 7 day extended hours service to the A&E department and Clinical Decisions Unit (CDU). The client group includes patients presenting with a range of acute and chronic impairments, such as orthopaedic injuries, falls, neurological and other medical conditions. The aim of the service is to prevent unnecessary admission to hospital and to promote a safe and timely discharge to home. Working in the Acute Medicine rotation takes a similar approach in addition to commencing the rehabilitative approach to care and informing the patients’ onward journey (either discharge or admission to specialist wards)
At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care. Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You’ll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.
Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities. We encourage staff to have the Covid vaccination to protect themselves, patients, other colleagues as well as the wider community.
Please note it is an operational requirement to comply with infection prevention and control procedures within the Trust such as lateral flow testing, handwashing and the wearing of masks, according to the procedures in place at any time or location.
As part of our continued response to Covid19 we are still conducting the majority of our interviews virtually.
We welcome discussions about flexible working and encourage a range of flexible working opportunities wherever we can.
It is important that the successful applicant is a team player with a positive outlook, enthusiasm and ability to learn and develop new skills. You must be able to demonstrate sound knowledge and experience in a relevant clinical setting, possessing highly specialist assessment, treatment and risk management skills. The ability to work autonomously, but also well within a multi-disciplinary team is essential, as is the ability to promote the role of Therapies and the implementation of evidence-based practice. In addition to the clinical caseload, the post holder will have the opportunity to play a key part in the development of the Therapy service and the team.
You will be supported by band 7 OT for clinical and professional development. We actively support continuing personal and professional development through an established performance development review (PDR) system, in-service training and external courses. We can support you to undertake quality improvement projects so you will learn the methodology and gain experience by doing it at work.
If you think you are a suitable candidate with dedication, passion and the ability to take on this role, please apply.
For further details / informal visits contact:Nicola Crossey, Clinical Lead for OT & Physio Acute and Emergency Medicine on 07775227975 / or emailnicola.crossey@nhs.net
This advert closes on Monday 29 Apr 2024