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Occupational Therapist
Grade
Band 7
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week (7 day rota)
Job ref
196-LIS8442
Employer
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
St Thomas' Hospital
Town
London
Salary
£51,488 - £57,802 p.a. inc. HCA
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
Today at 23:59

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Senior Specialist Occupational Therapist - Older Persons Unit

Band 7

Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.

Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.

Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions. 

Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.

In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.

We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.

Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.

The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.

We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.



Job overview

Senior Specialist Occupational Therapist – Older Persons Unit

An exciting B7 opportunity has arisen to join our well established  Older Persons Occupational Therapy service inpatient team. 

We are looking for an enthusiastic, dynamic, forward thinking and committed Occupational Therapist with strong clinical and people management skills to deliver high quality intervention to our older population. 

This post sits within a supportive occupational therapy management structure which welcomes innovation and quality improvement whilst prioritising staff well being. It provides the opportunity to develop complex assessment and intervention skills for frail, older people within a unit which advocates implementation of comprehensive geriatric assessment through close multidisciplinary team working.

The team comprises of both OPU and general medicine occupational therapists  allowing for joint in-service provision and education programmes for staff. Within this there is an expectation that informal support is provided across both services with potential to cross cover depending on service demands. The team is key to supporting patient flow through the acute medicine directorate and offers opportunities to be pro-actively identifying challenges and solutions in relation to the discharge pathway.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will have responsibility for overseeing an inpatient caseload, as well as providing supervision and leadership to the junior team. 

This post will allow you to develop and utilise your specialist clinical skills in the management of people with complex health, acute rehabilitation and social care needs. Whilst providing you with an excellent opportunity to develop your leadership skills, expand your professional development and participate in the wider local and national agendas for older people.

Please see attached job description for full details

 

 

Working for our organisation

Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust has embarked upon a comprehensive cancer strategy that will shape the future of services for the next generation of patients. We strive to be a world class cancer service, delivering internationally distinctive services that are patient centred, research driven and clinically led.

Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK’s best known hospitals – Guy’s, St Thomas’, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield – as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation.

We are among the UK’s busiest, most successful foundation trusts. We provide specialist care for patients including heart and lung, cancer and renal services as well as a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Lambeth and Southwark.

We have around 25,000 staff, making us one of the largest NHS Trusts in the country and one of the biggest employers locally. We aim to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve and continue to develop new and existing partnerships with local people, patients, neighbouring NHS organisations, local authorities and charitable bodies and GPs.

We strive to recruit and retain the best staff as the dedication and skills of our employees lie at the heart of our organisation and ensure that our services are of the highest quality, safe and focused on our patients.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see attached the job description and person specification documentation for further information on the role and its requirements.

Person specification

Education/Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Diploma or Degree in Occupational Therapy
  • Masters level or equivalent training in specialist area or evidence of significant practical experience, research or publication in specialist area.

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Varied range of clinical experiences with a focus in an acute hospital setting and with older people/frailty
  • Experience of audit/quality improvement projects
  • Ability to supervise junior staff and students.
Desirable criteria
  • Experience with falls, palliative care, dementia, frailty

Skills, Knowledge and Abilities

Essential criteria
  • Specialist knowledge, understanding and application of Occupational Therapy process relating to client centred practice.
  • Specialist knowledge, application and analysis of standardised and non standardised assessment tools.
  • Ability to work autonomously, acting decisively on behalf of self and others, setting own priorities in both a hospital and patients home environment.
  • Ability to manage and recognise differences of opinion in both patient related and inter-professional settings, coping positively with inter-professional tensions/ barriers.
  • Ability to prescribe adaptive equipment, assistive devices, wheelchairs, pressure cushions for patients with a variety of complex conditions
  • Demonstrate sound techniques in applying a range of complex assessments and treatments including cognition.

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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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Teresa Meldrum
Job title
Clinical Specialist Occupational Therapist
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
020 7188 4176
Additional information

Please do not hesitate to contact 

Teresa Meldrum, Clinical Specialist Occupational Therapist

[email protected]       020 7188 4176

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