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Senior Occupational Therapist

Employer
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
Location
London
Salary
£42,471 to £50,364 a year pa inclusive
Closing date
11 Oct 2024
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Profession
Occupational therapist
Grade
Band 6
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time
Fast forward your Occupational Therapy career at Imperial. With five world-renowned hospitals, we are full of opportunity for Occupational Therapists who are looking for progression to develop new skills, get involved in quality improvement and collaborate with leading multidisciplinary teams.

Our trust wide specialist rotation in Stroke, Neurosciences and inpatient and community Neurorehabilitation currently has a vacancy for a permanent dynamic and motivated band 6 Occupational Therapist.

Our Occupational Therapists are an integral part of the multi-disciplinary teams across neurosciences. As a successful candidate, you will have the opportunity to provide high quality occupational therapy to patients with diverse presentations and complex conditions, to develop and deliver an individualised treatment programme whilst growing your specialist experience and leadership skills in a welcoming and supportive environment.

Each specialty has support of both band 7 & 8 Clinical therapists to support your clinical and professional development in addition to your peer group with regular peer support meetings and buddy system to support your transition into the trust. We actively support CPD through an established performance development review (PDR) system, in-service training and external courses. There are also opportunities to undertake formal postgraduate study.

We also have roles that can be offered as fixed term contracts available within the neurosciences services.

Main duties of the job

  • To provide high quality Occupational Therapy to patients at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. To participate in a cross site rotational scheme, providing a high standard of Occupational Therapy to patients within the neurosciences rotations. To perform Occupational Therapy assessment of patients with diverse presentations and complex physical and psychological conditions, to develop and deliver an individualised treatment programme.
  • To undertake a significant clinical caseload working as an autonomous practitioner at a specialist level with other health professionals.
  • To support service development within the team, to implement policy and policy changes within the clinical area in partnership with MDT colleagues.
  • To present a positive and inspirational role model for all team members as well as supervising band 3, 4 or 5 staff members and participating within the student fair share model of offering practice placements.
  • The job holder is required to work at weekends covering stroke weekend service as part of their contracted hours of work (specific rota details are held locally within departments).


About us

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.

Job description

Job 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

  • 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).


Desirable

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


Experience

Essential

  • Recent experience in relevant occupational therapy specialities and clinical settings
  • Experience of working as part of an occupational therapy and multidisciplinary team
  • Experience of clinical education of staff, students or assistants.
  • Experience of supervision of students/ therapy support workers, with development of basic supervision skills


Desirable

  • 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


Skills

Essential

  • Competent IT skills
  • Good presentation skills


Desirable

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


Employer details

Employer name

Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

Address

Charing Cross Hospital

London

W6 8RF

Any attachments will be accessible after you click to apply.

290-MIC-1373

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