Senior Occupational Therapist

Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust; London; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare trust in London seeks an Occupational Therapist to join its integrated therapy team. The successful candidate will work with elderly patients, leading assessments and discharges on a ward. Applicants must have a degree in Occupational Therapy and HCPC registration. The role promotes career development, includes participation in weekend rotas, and offers flexible working options.

Benefits

Career development

Flexible working

Staff recognition scheme

Qualifications

• Degree in Occupational Therapy or equivalent.
• State registration with the Health Care Professions Council.
• Evidence of CPD through maintenance of a portfolio.

Responsibilities

• Lead the therapy team managing a variety of patients.
• Conduct comprehensive assessments of patients.
• Plan and prioritize caseload independently.

Skills

Team player

Positive outlook

Time management

Problem solving

Education

Degree in Occupational Therapy

State registration with Health Care Professions Council

Tools

Knowledge of treatment approaches

Competent IT skills

Job description

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Fulfil your potential in hospitals that make history:

Charing Cross, Hammersmith, St Mary's, Queen Charlotte's & Chelsea and Western Eye.

With five world-renowned hospitals, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is full of opportunity if you are looking to develop your healthcare career.

We are an NHS Trust of approximately 16,000 people, providing care for over a million and a half patients from north west London and beyond every year.

We have a rich heritage and an ambitious vision for the future of our patients and local communities.

With our partners, Imperial College London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, we form Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre, one of 6 academic health science centres in the UK, working to ensure the rapid translation of research for better patient care and excellence in education.

We are proud of our heritage in innovation and we are early adopters of new insights in technologies, techniques and treatments for improving health.

Job overview

A new opportunity has arisen for an experienced Occupational Therapist with an interest in specialist medicine and frailty to join our friendly integrated therapy team at Charing Cross Hospital. You will be based on one of our elderly medicine wards where you will lead the team seeing a variety of patients with a broad range of conditions, co-morbidities and complex social situations to manage. You'll form an integral part of the multidisciplinary team, helping plan timely and safe discharges.

If you want to develop more confidence in your prioritisation, time management and problem solving skills, then this is an ideal opportunity to gain more experience in these areas. Current therapists working within the team have said that they've gained an incredible amount of knowledge, skills and confidence which they will take forward to the next stages of their careers. In addition, you will have supervisory responsibility for a rotational Band 5 occupational therapist.

It is essential that you are a team player with a positive outlook, enthusiasm and the ability to learn and develop new skills. You will also have the opportunity to participate in the front door weekend rota, gaining skills in rapid assessment and admission avoidance. The ability to work autonomously, but also well within a multi-disciplinary team is required, as is the ability to promote the role of Therapies within specialist medicine and the implementation of evidence-based practice.

Main duties of the job

• To be professionally and legally accountable for all aspects of own work, including management of patients in your care.
• To undertake a comprehensive assessment and re-assessment of patients including those with diverse or complex presentation for a designated caseload to establish clients' physical, cognitive, perceptual, psychological and social functioning.
• To communicate effectively, using a range of verbal and non-verbal skills, with patients and carers/family to motivate, engage to participate in therapy and to ensure an understanding of their condition.
• To deal sensitively and constructively with patients and carers/family, who have high levels of anxiety frustration or aggression caused by a variety of issues, such as pain, poor prognosis or limited mobility.
• To plan and prioritise own caseload independently on a day-to-day basis to ensure patients are appropriately seen, in conjunction with the priorities of the team and to give assistance to other team members as required.
• To be flexible in the organisation of own caseload and to respond to predictable and unpredictable service needs throughout the day.
• To undertake the measurement and evaluation of your own work and current practice through the use of projects, audit or outcome measures, whether individually or with the support of senior staff.

Working for our organisation

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 are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share. Please talk to us at interview. .

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required.

For both overviews, please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.

Person specification

Education/ Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Degree (or equivalent) in Occupational Therapy.
• State registration with the Health Care Professions Council
• Evidence of CPD through maintenance of a portfolio
• Able to demonstrate specialist learning from band 5 rotations, formal post-graduate level learning and informal CPD (both general and specific to clinical fields of speciality).
• Demonstrate learning of personal effectiveness and first line leadership from experience and from both formal and informal CPD activity.

Desirable criteria

• Membership of the Royal College of Occupational Therapists (RCOT)
• Membership of RCOT special interest groups relevant to speciality
• Clinical Educators Course

Experience

Essential criteria

• Recent experience in relevant occupational therapy specialities and clinical settings
• Experience of working as part of an occupational therapy and multidisciplinary team
• To have participated in service development projects.
• Experience of clinical education of staff, students or assistants.
• Experience of supervision of students/ therapy support workers, with development of basic supervision skills.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the use of evidence based practice in speciality

Desirable criteria

• Previous experience in the NHS or social care as a qualified occupational therapist
• Previous experience of prescribing wheelchairs and seating and other specialist equipment
• Experience with splinting
• Previous Band 6 experience in relevant post
• Involvement with Clinical Governance issues and an understanding of their relation to patient care

Skills/Knowledge/ Abilities

Essential criteria

• Able to apply a range and depth of knowledge to this specialist area.
• Able to use knowledge of a range of treatment approaches in the specialist area.
• Able to make sound clinical decisions based on knowledge/ experience/circumstances and utilise advanced clinical reasoning skills.
• Able to carry out therapeutic handling, requiring skilful and strenuous physical effort during the working day.
• Ability to remain up to date with professional practice and research and integrate this into daily patient management.
• Ability to organise, prioritise and delegate as appropriate and manage time effectively.
• Ability to seek guidance and assistance when required and to be aware of personal limitations.
• Ability to cope with working in a stressful environment and with emotional or aggressive patients or carers.
• Competent IT skills.
• Good presentation skills.
• Remain updated with professional practice and new research
• To make sound judgments and reliable decisions in a variety of demanding situations.
• Self-motivated and able to work unsupervised.
• Able to work flexibly responding to the needs of the service.

Desirable criteria

• Evidence of CPD relevant to role and specialist area.
• Well-developed abilities for communication and consensus building skills

Please ensure you check your emails regularly as this is how we will communicate with you throughout the recruitment process. If you are shortlisted you will be contacted by email and text message (if you provide a mobile contact number).

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

• JD (PDF, 720.5KB)
• FRF (PDF, 232.6KB)
• Our Strategy 2023-25 (PDF, 230.4KB)
• Occupational Therapy Brochure (PDF, 1.0MB)