Senior Occupational Therapist - Vascular, Surgery & Amputees

Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust; London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust seeks a highly skilled Band 7 Occupational Therapist to join their dynamic surgery team. The role focuses on providing specialized care for complex vascular surgery cases while managing a small team and ensuring high standards of patient care. Ideal candidates will have extensive clinical experience, leadership skills, and a proactive approach towards rehabilitation and discharge planning.

Benefits

Career development

Flexible working

Wellbeing initiatives

Qualifications

• Significant recent clinical experience in vascular surgery and teamwork.
• Evidence of a broad base of clinical experience at Band 6 level or equivalent.
• Experience of multidisciplinary goal planning and implementing training programmes.

Responsibilities

• Perform advanced assessment of patients with diverse presentations.
• Lead a team and provide advanced care to patients.
• Contribute to planning and evaluation of therapy services.

Skills

Teamwork

Clinical Reasoning

Critical Thinking

Education

Degree in Occupational Therapy

State registration with the Health Professions Council

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

St Mary's Hospital is an internationally recognised centre for vascular surgery and the only centre in the UK currently providing endo-robotic surgery for aortic, carotid and peripheral vascular interventions; as well as providing open thoracoabdominal aneurysm repair using techniques such as left heart bypass and full motor and sensory spinal monitoring.

We are developing into a National centre and North West London Hub for Vascular Surgery so receive patients for complex vascular treatment from all over the London and the UK.

We require a highly specialised and skilled Band 7 Occupational Therapist, to work within the surgery team, alongside a Band 7 in T&O. The ideal candidate will have previous experience working in the areas of vascular surgery, plastic, trauma, orthopaedic, and general surgery. They will support and manage a complex caseload, using advanced clinical reasoning, critical thinking, reflection and analysis.

This post will develop experience in wheelchair assessments, comprehensive complex equipment assessments, home access visits, adaptation of ADLs following upper and lower limb amputations.

We conduct acute rehab following surgery and coordination of client centred discharge planning within post-surgical restrictions, capacity complications and socio-environmental concerns. They will be supported by the Clinical Lead Therapist to develop and enhance their leadership and clinical management skills to manage a small team of occupational therapists.

Main duties of the job

• The post holder will be responsible for performing advanced assessment of patients with diverse presentations and complex medical, physical and psychological conditions, to develop and deliver an individualised management/treatment programme.
• Following assessment the post holder will be responsible for making therapeutic and/or clinical diagnoses and treating their own caseload of specialised and complex patients/clients and maintaining associated records.
• The post holder may lead a team and be responsible for providing an advanced standard of care to patients at Imperial College NHS Healthcare Trust, which covers a multi-cultural and diverse population.
• The post holder will supervise the work of other more junior staff and support workers.
• The post holder may be rotational and will be expected to work across all sites of the ICHNT.
• The post holder will assist the Clinical Lead in contributing to the planning, coordination, development and evaluation of the service.
• Together with other senior staff, you will act as a resource of specialist advice to the rest of the therapy service and other professions.

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 Professions Council
• Evidence of CPD through maintenance of a portfolio, especially in the relevant clinical area
• Clinical Educators course or equivalent

Desirable criteria

• Membership of the Professional Organisation
• Membership of Professional special interest groups relevant to speciality
• Relevant Postgraduate clinical qualification
• Management skills or leadership training

Experience

Essential criteria

• Significant recent clinical experience in relevant clinical area
• Evidence of a broad base of clinical experience at Band 6 level or equivalent
• Significant experience of working as an integral member of a multidisciplinary team and inter-agency working
• Experience of multidisciplinary goal planning, development of care pathways and using outcome measures
• Experience of organising and implementing training programmes for therapists, MDT members, support workers, students and apprentices
• Experience of service development/change management
• Experience in implementing evidence based practice in speciality
• Experience of on-call and weekend working in an acute hospital (if required for job role)

Desirable criteria

• Previous Band 7 or equivalent experience in relevant post
• Leadership of a therapy team
• Recent, relevant work in an NHS environment
• Experience of using clinical governance framework to monitor and improve quality of patient care
• Clinical research experience
• Experience of planning and managing service improvement activities

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

• Job description (PDF, 752.5KB)
• FRF Form (PDF, 272.6KB)
• Our Strategy 2023-25 (PDF, 230.4KB)