Job summary
- Main area
- Occupational Therapy
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 391-RFL-7248237
- Employer
- Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Royal Free Hospital
- Town
- Hampstead
- Salary
- £54,320 - £60,981 Per annum inclusive of HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 20/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Band 7 Highly Specialist OT – Rapids in Emergency and Acute Medicine
NHS AfC: Band 7
The North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust is a medium-sized acute and community trust with over 525 beds and over 600 community staff, serving more than 600,000 people living across Enfield and Haringey and the surrounding areas, including Barnet and Waltham Forest.
The hospital has been on its present site for over 100 years and was established as an NHS trust by statute in December 1990. The Trust’s services are provided on the North Middlesex University Hospital site as well as a range of community sites across the London Borough of Enfield, including at partner hospitals. They provide services in collaboration with a range of partners, including local GPs, acute, mental health and other community health service providers across North Central London.
In the year ending 31 March 2022, the Trust reported a turnover of £419.7m and employed almost 4,000 staff. Following the transfer of Enfield Community Services on 1st April 2023, this has increased as we have welcomed over 600 new staff including District Nurses, Community Matrons, Community Physiotherapists, Psychologists and many more across a wide range of adult and children’s community services in Enfield. It is an exciting time to join North Mid as we continue our journey to become an integrated care organisation to deliver high quality, seamless care in our local communities, with a focus on tackling health inequalities.
Job overview
Band 7 Highly Specialist Occupational Therapist for Emergency and Acute Medicine
37.5 Hours
7 day working with extended hours
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and committed individual to join our unique and vibrant therapy team at the Royal Free Hospital, Hampstead, part of the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust.
We are looking for an experienced Occupational Therapist with an extensive range of clinical and leadership skills to work across our emergency department, adult and medical assessment units.
You will be expected to provide clinical leadership and operational management to the team and manage a clinical caseload of patients requiring complex case management in order to facilitate early discharge, to promote independence and improve patient health outcomes.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will promote the Homefirst mindset with a passion for admission avoidance and will utilise rapid response and discharge to assess pathways to ensure that patients leave hospital in a safe and timely way and that there is safe and effective patient flow. The role will require you to work on a 7 day working roster with extended hours (inclusive of bank holidays).
The Therapies team at the Royal Free is innovative, creative and truly inter-disciplinary, focused on delivering high quality, patient centred care. Our team is friendly and supportive with a strong emphasis on supportive supervision, an active learning environment and a focus on staff welfare and teamwork using the “What matters to you?” framework.
You will need relevant clinical post registration experience of delivering Occupational Therapy in complex assessment and treatment intervention within the acute hospital setting, and state registration through the Health Care Professions Council. This position also requires excellent communication skills and experience working within an inter-disciplinary team and interagency collaboration.
Are you looking for an innovative role in a multidisciplinary team? This fantastic opportunity awaits a dynamic, motivated Occupational Therapist looking to develop clinical, operational and leadership skills.
Working for our organisation
North Mid is part of North Central London integrated care system – consisting of the NHS and Local authority organisations in Camden, Islington, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey. As with other ICS’s, we are working increasingly closely with partners and indeed many of our financial and performance objectives are measured at this system level. Whilst all organisations remain as standalone, statutory bodies we have an ICS infrastructure for making shared decisions and agreeing shared approaches.
We are proud of our staff and want to ensure their training allows them to provide excellent clinical care. We are also a training unit for medical students from UCL and St George’s University Grenada, and for nursing and midwifery students from Middlesex and City Universities.
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached job description for more information about this role and working at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust.
Person specification
Royal Free World Class Values
Essential criteria
- • Demonstrable ability to meet the Trust Values
Education & professional Qualifications
Essential criteria
- • BSc Degree in Occupational Therapy or Diploma or equivalent
- • Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) registration for profession
- • Evidence or portfolio of post-graduate continued development in specialist clinical area
Desirable criteria
- • Evidence of study or intention to study at masters level
- • Membership of specialist interest group
Experience
Essential criteria
- • Substantial postgraduate experience at a Band 6 level, predominately working with patients with physical and cognitive disabilities
- • Experience of working with elderly patients
- • Experience and ability of working in an acute setting
- • Experience and ability of working within the emergency department and acute medicine
- • Experience of teaching and supervising less experienced staff
- • Experience of teaching and supervising students
- • Demonstrated ability to work autonomously and use own initiative
- • Motivational Interviewing/ Behaviour Change training (CBT or facilitation skills)
- • Experience of multidisciplinary and interagency working
- • Experience of leading a team
- • Experience of clinical audit and/or research
- • Experience of teaching to uni-disciplinary/ multidisciplinary groups
- • Evidence of active involvement in service development & contribution to change within the workplace
Skills
Essential criteria
- • Able to display transdisciplary working competencies across Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy
- • Ability to carry out ward based respiratory assessment and treatment
- • Ability to identify deteriorating patient
- • Evidence of understanding the skills required for service development and evaluation
- • Experience of working effectively and efficiently as part of a multidisciplinary team
- • Ability to demonstrate a commitment to best practice and awareness of relevant national standards/guidelines
- • Knowledge of quality assurance and audit programmes in line with requirements for Clinical Governance
- • Ability to demonstrate self-direction in thought and practice
- • Knowledge of research and development process
- • Evidence of Continuing Professional Development
- • Ability to lead a team
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
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Lindsay Sanders
- Job title
- Clinical Lead Occupational Therapist
- Email address
- [email protected]
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