Band 7 Advanced Occupational Therapist – Neuro Rotation

Barking Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust; Romford; Presencial; GBP 43.000 - 52.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Barking Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust is seeking a Band 7 Advanced Occupational Therapist to rotate across neuro services (HASU/ASU, Stroke Rehabilitation, ESD and Acute Neurosciences).

You will provide specialist assessment and treatment, lead MDT guidance and coordinate OT services across two main sites: KGH Goodmayes and Queen’s Hospital Romford, driving patient independence and carer education.

Responsabilidades

• Provide specialist assessment, treatment and advice to patients within your area of speciality.
• Give highly specialist guidance and advice to MDT on matters relating to your specialist area.
• Plan, co-ordinate and evaluate the Occupational Therapy service within the acute stroke unit/Neurosciences on a day-to-day basis.
• Negotiate and enable changes in the patient’s quality of life by developing their transition between roles and promoting independence.
• Support the patient’s carer/relative and educate them on rehabilitation techniques to optimise independence.
• Work across HASU/ASU, Stroke Rehabilitation, ESD Stroke Service and Acute Neurosciences as part of a Band 7 rotation.

Descripción del empleo

Band 7 Advanced Occupational Therapist – Neuro Rotation

Company:

Company: Barking Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust

A Vacancy at Barking Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust.

To contribute to the development, implementation and monitoring of the provision of services to clients with a diagnosis of stroke and neurological conditions. This post is part of a Band 7 rotation which includes: Hyper Acute Stroke Unit (HASU)/Acute Stroke Unit (ASU), Stroke Rehabilitation, Early Supported discharge (ESD) Stroke Service and Acute Neurosciences (including support to Neuro Outliers service).

To provide specialist assessment, treatment and advice to patients within your area of speciality, facilitating and maximising patient potential within service boundaries.

To give highly specialist guidance and advice to other members of the Multidisciplinary Team (MDT) on matters relating to your specialist area.

To plan, co-ordinate and evaluate the Occupational Therapy service provided to patients within the acute stroke unit/ Neurosciences, on a day-to-day basis.

To negotiate and enable changes in the patient’s quality of life, by developing their transition between roles and optimising purposeful, meaningful activity. This involves assessment, practice of functional tasks, counselling, motivating and reintegration back into the community and includes supporting the patient’s carer/relative and educating them on specific rehabilitation techniques to optimise independence.

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 Queen’s 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 Queen’s 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 Women’s Health Hub in Ilford; an Ageing Well Centre in Hornchurch; and Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) at Barking Community Hospital and at St George’s 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. We’re proud to be a London Living Wage employer.

For further information on this role, please see the attached detailed Job Description and Person Specification.

The person specification listed below is not the full specification requirements for the role. Please ensure you review the full specification on the job description prior to submitting your application.

All new staff appointed at the Trust are subject to a probationary period.

Barking Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust

Barking Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust

Barking Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust