Band 6 Specialist Occupational Therapist - Rotational

Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust; Romford; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

London Living Wage employer

Job summary

Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust is seeking a committed Occupational Therapist to join a Band 6 rotational programme. You will work across Goodmayes and Romford, including community settings, delivering holistic OT assessments and interventions.

The role includes mentoring junior staff, teaching placements, and contributing to service development within a busy NHS therapy service. A supportive Practice Development Facilitator team backs your growth.

Qualifications

• Registration with HCPC as OT is required.
• Ability to work across multiple sites and in the community.

Responsibilities

• Provide a high standard of Occupational Therapy via holistic care, maximizing patient potential.
• Participate in the Band 6 rotational scheme across sites and in the community.
• Fulfil teaching and supervisory duties with peers, junior staff and students.

Skills

Holistic OT delivery

Teaching/Supervision

Education

Registered Occupational Therapist (HCPC)

Job description

Are you a highly qualified, reliable and innovative Occupational Therapist.

We are looking to appoint people who are as passionate about high-quality care as we are.

Rotations include Stroke, Acute Frailty Therapy Team, Care of the elderly, Specialist haematology and oncology, Gastroenterology, Renal, Acute Respiratory, Orthopaedics, Surgical, Acute medical ward and Respiratory.

We have a philosophy of continuous learning to improve patient outcomes as well as developing the skills of our staff With the support of our Practice Development Facilitator for Therapies and our Senior Intern for Allied Healthcare Professionals, BHRUT is an ideal place to continue your growth in your career. We have an established in-service training programme. You will also be well supported by experienced Band 7 Occupational Therapists and Band 8a Clinical Leads in each rotational post.

To find out what is happening in BHRUT Therapies please follow us on Twitter:

@BHRUT_Therapies

Responsibilities

• Through a holistic approach, to provide a high standard of Occupational Therapy service, facilitating and maximising patient potential within the service boundaries.
• To participate in the Band 6 rotational scheme, this involves working across both sites and in the community.
• To fulfil a teaching and supervisory role with peers, junior staff and students on placement.

We're an organisation that is getting better and better and our improvements are driven by a determination to deliver care we're proud of and our patients are happy with.

They are benefitting from a new electronic patient record (we were the last acute trust in London to introduce one) and our maternity services have been rated good by the Care Quality Commission.

We operate from two main sites - KGH in Goodmayes and Queens Hospital in Romford. We have two busy emergency departments with more than 346,000 people visiting them last year. We're campaigning to secure the £35m we need to transform the A&E at Queens and get rid of corridor care.

We're proud of our regional Neurosciences Centre, Radiotherapy Centre and Hyper Acute Stroke Unit. We're also part of the North East London Cancer Alliance.

We run a Womens Health Hub in Ilford; an Ageing Well Centre in Hornchurch; and Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) at Barking Community Hospital and at St Georges Health and Wellbeing Hub. These CDCs are open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week.

The majority of our 8,400 staff - who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. Many can work flexibly and more than 400 of them are on our Ofsted accredited apprenticeship programmes.

Benefits

• We're proud to be a London Living Wage employer.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Kamalamalathi Baskaran Job title: Clinical Specialist OT Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 02089708184