Advanced Occupational Therapist – Intensive Care Unit (ICU)

Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust; London; On-site; GBP 51,000 - 59,000; Full time

Job summary

An established healthcare provider is seeking an Advanced Occupational Therapist for their Intensive Care Unit. This role involves delivering specialized therapy interventions, leading assessments, and collaborating with a multidisciplinary team. The ideal candidate will possess strong interpersonal skills and a commitment to patient care, ensuring high standards in a fast-paced environment. Join a dedicated team focused on improving patient outcomes and tackling health inequalities in the community. This position offers a full-time contract with a competitive salary and opportunities for professional development.

Qualifications

• Must have significant post-graduate clinical experience in relevant areas.
• Registration with HCPC is essential for this position.

Responsibilities

• Deliver advanced Occupational Therapy interventions in ICU.
• Lead cognitive/functional assessments and treatment for patients.

Skills

Interpersonal Skills

Clinical Reasoning

Teamwork

Time Management

Problem Solving

Education

BSc in Occupational Therapy

HCPC Registration

Postgraduate Study Equivalent to MSc

Job description

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Advanced Occupational Therapist – Intensive Care Unit (ICU)

NHS AfC: Band 7

Main area Occupational Therapy - Critical Care Grade NHS AfC: Band 7 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (participation in seven day working roster) Job ref 391-NMUH-7038694-B

Site North Middlesex University Hospital Town London Salary £51,883 - £58,544 per annum inclusive of HCAs Salary period Yearly Closing 14/05/2025 23:59

The North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust is a medium-sized acute and community trust with over 525 beds and over 600 community staff, serving more than 600,000 people living across Enfield and Haringey and the surrounding areas, including Barnet and Waltham Forest.

The hospital has been on its present site for over 100 years and was established as an NHS trust by statute in December 1990. The Trust’s services are provided on the North Middlesex University Hospital site as well as a range of community sites across the London Borough of Enfield, including at partner hospitals. They provide services in collaboration with a range of partners, including local GPs, acute, mental health and other community health service providers across North Central London.

In the year ending 31 March 2022, the Trust reported a turnover of £419.7m and employed almost 4,000 staff. Following the transfer of Enfield Community Services on 1st April 2023, this has increased as we have welcomed over 600 new staff including District Nurses, Community Matrons, Community Physiotherapists, Psychologists and many more across a wide range of adult and children’s community services in Enfield. It is an exciting time to join North Mid as we continue our journey to become an integrated care organisation to deliver high quality, seamless care in our local communities, with a focus on tackling health inequalities.

Job overview

Are you looking for a new challenge in a fast moving ICU/Respiratory setting? If you are an exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Band 6 or Band 7 Occupational therapist with relevant experience. You will be a valued member of the integrated OT/PT therapy respiratory team as well as working closely with specialist SLTs and Dietitians.

We are looking for a candidate with e xcellent interpersonal skills, an ability to facilitate change and development and a flexible approach are essential. Clinical knowledge and e xperience working with critical care and respiratory patient cohorts is essential.

The successful candidate will be expected to have excellent teamworking skills and experience of service development in this area is desirable.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be:

Delivering advanced Occupational Therapy intervention for our 21 bedded general Critical Care Unit and 22 bedded respiratory ward.

Taking a lead role in advanced cognitive/functional assessment and treatment of patients, who frequently have complex, acute and/or chronic conditions. This may include psychosocial /emotional and cognitive issues.

R esponsible for participation in service reviews, audits and implementation of Evidence based therapy practice/standards alongside Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist, Highly Specialist Speech and Language therapist and Dietitian.

Providing formal supervision to Band 5/6 Occupational therapists and/or therapy assistants/students and informal support to band 5/6 physiotherapists

Working for our organisation

North Mid is part of North Central London integrated care system – consisting of the NHS and Local authority organisations in Camden, Islington, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey. As with other ICS’s, we are working increasingly closely with partners and indeed many of our financial and performance objectives are measured at this system level. Whilst all organisations remain as standalone, statutory bodies we have an ICS infrastructure for making shared decisions and agreeing shared approaches.

We are proud of our staff and want to ensure their training allows them to provide excellent clinical care. We are also a training unit for medical students from UCL and St George’s University Grenada, and for nursing and midwifery students from Middlesex and City Universities.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For detailed information and a job description which outlines the main responsibilities, please refer to the attached Job description.

Person specification

Education & professional Qualifications

• BSc in Occupational Therapy or equivalent.
• Registration with HCPC
• Undertaken post graduate study equivalent to MSc level study relevant to the area of practice/in depth post graduate training relevant to area of practice
• Field work Educator qualification.
• Member ship of special interest group
• Membership of RCOT

Trust Values

• Demonstrate ability to meet Trust's values

Experience

• Significant post-graduate clinical experience in working in relevant clinical area.
• Evidence of extensive post-graduate clinical training.
• Evidence of advanced clinical reasoning skills required to deal with complex conditions and plan OT treatment independently.
• Experience of organising, writing and presenting in-service training programmes.
• Experience of supervising Junior and non-qualified staff, including participation in personal development reviews
• Experience of clinical governance initiatives.
• Evidence of understanding the needs of the service users and their families/carers, and to be able to explain the role of the OT to them.
• The post holder will require highly skilled time management and prioritisation skills due to frequent interruptions of job tasks during the working day and balancing of clinical and operational duties, including service development.
• Able to communicate highly complex and sensitive information in written, verbal and presentational form to patients, staff and senior managers within the Trust and across other organisations.
• Highly developed problem-solving skills for highly complex situations, which may include clinical or organisational issues

Skills and aptitudes

• Skilled ability in leading and working as a team member and developing team spirit.
• Highly developed organisational and planning skills.
• Able to assimilate and analyse complex clinical information.
• Able to identify and recognise when to seek advice and support concerning clinical, managerial, professional and organisational issues.
• Able to identify your own and your staff’s training needs
• Well-developed counselling and advocacy skills to support staff, patients and carers
• Able to employ motivational and influencing skills with staff, patients, carers and other professional

Personal Qualities & attributes

• Commitment to lifelong learning.
• Willingness to work flexibly, both independently and as part of a team.
• Positive attitude to and ability to cope well with change to maintain and sustain positive working relationships.

We reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once a sufficient number of applications have been received.

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If you are offered a role with one of the NLPSS partner trusts, as part of pre-employment checks youridentity and right to work documentation will be verifiedremotely (in most circumstances), using a certified identity verification service provider TrustID. You will be asked to capture an image of the relevant documents as well as a “selfie” using your smartphone/tablet (if available) for facial matching. TrustID will also perform a digital address check using Trunarrative and Equifax, which is a soft check and does not leave a footprint on your credit rating. For more information, visit www.trustid.co.uk

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Application numbers

We reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once a sufficient number of applications have been received.