Specialist Occupational Therapist

Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust; Greater London; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an Occupational Therapist for community-based care near Enfield Town. The role involves assessing diverse patient groups, delivering individualised OT treatment plans, and working within a multidisciplinary team to provide comprehensive care to patients and carers.

The post requires autonomous practice, engagement in supervision, and potential involvement in audits or service development under senior guidance.

Responsibilities

• Providing care to a multi cultural and diverse population, to deliver a high standard of occupational therapy care to patients and their carers.
• To perform comprehensive OT assessment of people with diverse presentations and complex physical and psychological conditions.
• To use this to provide a clinical diagnosis and deliver an individualised treatment program.
• To hold responsibility for your own caseload and, working without direct supervision but together with the other members of the MDT, deliver a comprehensive package of care to patients and their carers. Supervision takes the form of regular formal training and clinical reasoning sessions, peer review, case review and case conferences. Access to advice and support from a more senior occupational therapist is available.
• To undertake all aspects of clinical duties as an autonomous practitioner.
• With support from more senior staff, to undertake evidence-based audit and or research projects to further own and teams clinical practice. Make recommendations to clinical lead/manager of service for changes to practice by the team. May contribute to the implementation of specific changes to practice or contribute to service protocols.
• To be aware of and to highlight to your line manager any clinical governance issues pertaining to your role and practice.
• To contribute to the delivery of health promotion activities within the service and wider Trust initiatives.
• To provide cover for OTs in the service as required.

Job description

About the Role

We are a friendly, supportive, growing OT community who report high levels of job satisfaction. We offer professionally led services, in-service team training, effective supervision and external training opportunities through the Trust.

We are offering an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated Occupational Therapist who wishes to develop skills within a community service. We are looking for a creative, friendly and enthusiastic OT to join our exsisting team. The services are located near Enfield Town, with easy commuter links from central London/Hertfordshire and proximity to M25.

A car driver/owner is essential due to the nature of the role, community based home visits.

Key Responsibilities

• Providing care to a multi cultural and diverse population, to deliver a high standard of occupational therapy care to patients and their carers.
• To perform comprehensive OT assessment of people with diverse presentations and complex physical and psychological conditions.
• To use this to provide a clinical diagnosis and deliver an individualised treatment program.
• To hold responsibility for your own caseload and, working without direct supervision but together with the other members of the MDT, deliver a comprehensive package of care to patients and their carers. Supervision takes the form of regular formal training and clinical reasoning sessions, peer review, case review and case conferences. Access to advice and support from a more senior occupational therapist is available.
• To undertake all aspects of clinical duties as an autonomous practitioner.
• With support from more senior staff, to undertake evidence-based audit and or research projects to further own and teams clinical practice. Make recommendations to clinical lead/manager of service for changes to practice by the team. May contribute to the implementation of specific changes to practice or contribute to service protocols.
• To be aware of and to highlight to your line manager any clinical governance issues pertaining to your role and practice.
• To contribute to the delivery of health promotion activities within the service and wider Trust initiatives.
• To provide cover for OTs in the service as required.

Our Organisation

North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Hospital Trust (NMUH) is one of London's busiest healthcare providers, providing hospital care and community services for the 350,000 people living in Enfield, Haringey and beyond.

Our specialist services include HIV, cardiology, blood disorders, diabetes, fertility, sickle cell and thalassemia. In addition to a full range of cancer diagnosis and treatment services, the Helen Rollason Cancer Support Centre is based on-site and provides services to support cancer patients' wellbeing.

We also provide community services and have a dedicated 0-19 service for children and young people in Enfield so that they can get the best possible start in life. This includes health visitors and school nurses who are delivering the national Healthy Child Programme, which provides a structured framework for the delivery of key interventions to support the health and wellbeing of children and families from 0 to 5 and school aged children from 5-19. The 0-19 service aims to improve pathways and partnerships with services in the hospital and deliver excellent care for the children and families.

Further Information

For more information, please access the following link: https://www.northmid.nhs.uk/