Band 7 Advanced Occupational Therapist – Neuro Rotation
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This exciting Rotational B7 post is a chance to work within our highly specialist teams within Queen’s Hospital Hyper-Acute Stroke unit and our Regional Neurosciences Centre. You will have opportunity to use high level clinical skills across the Stroke pathway: Hyper-acute stroke unit (HASU), Acute Stroke unit (ASU), Rehabilitation ward (Daisy) and our Early Supported Discharge (ESD) community service.
Within Neurosciences you will experience a wide range of elective and acute conditions across our wards, including; acquired brain injury, TBI, neuro-oncology, acute neurology, spinal trauma and spinal cord injury.
The post-holder will be delivering clinical care, providing team support and helping to develop the service across acute wards, critical care, elective and community pathways across our sites. Queen\'s is a busy new-build hospital situated on the fringes of London with access also into the countryside of Essex. If you want a rewarding opportunity where you will be encouraged to influence and develop whilst being valued and supported then apply today.
To perform a highly advanced Occupational Therapy assessment of patients with diverse presentations and complex physical and psychological conditions, to provide an accurate clinical diagnosis and develop and deliver a highly specialised treatment plan. To hold responsibility for own caseload and assist and monitor the caseload of your team.
On rotations you will acquire a wide range of clinical skills and experience across a range of speciality areas including: acute /sub-acute Stroke, neuro-rehabilitation and (ESD) community provision. You will develop your use of specialist cognitive assessments, upper-limb management and splint use, seating, and tone management.
We’re an organisation that is getting better and better and our improvements are driven by a determination to deliver care we’re proud of and our patients are happy with. We’re no longer in special measures; we’ve opened two new theatres at our Elective Surgical Hub in King George Hospital (KGH); and, in recognition of our progress, we’ve been shortlisted for Trust of the Year at the Health Service Journal Awards.
We operate from two main sites – KGH in Goodmayes and Queen’s Hospital in Romford. We have two busy emergency departments with more than 330,000 people visiting them last year. We’re campaigning to secure the £35m we need to transform the A&E at Queen’s and get rid of corridor care.
Our patients are benefitting from our Women’s Health Hub in Ilford; an Ageing Well Centre in Hornchurch; and Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) at Barking Community Hospital and at St George’s Health and Wellbeing Hub. These CDCs are open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week and are providing an extra 94,000 scans a year.
The majority of our 8,000 staff – who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. Many can work flexibly and more than 400 of them are on our Ofsted accredited apprenticeship programmes. We’re proud to be a London Living Wage employer.
We’re looking forward to introducing an electronic patient record that will be transformative for our staff and beneficial for our patients.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Mark Mainwood Job title: Clinical Lead Therapist Email address: mark.mainwood@nhs.net
Responsibilities
* Deliver clinical care on the Neuro Rotation across HASU, ASU, Daisy Rehabilitation Ward and ESD community services.
* Perform highly advanced OT assessments for patients with diverse presentations and complex physical and psychological conditions; provide diagnoses and develop/deliver specialised treatment plans.
* Hold responsibility for own caseload and assist/monitor the team\'s caseload.
* Develop clinical skills across acute/sub-acute stroke, neuro-rehabilitation and community provision; use specialist cognitive assessments, upper-limb management, splinting, seating and tone management.
About the organisation
We operate from two main sites – King George Hospital (KGH) in Goodmayes and Queen’s Hospital in Romford. We have two busy emergency departments and are pursuing improvements in facilities; we have opened two new theatres at the Elective Surgical Hub in KGH and have been shortlisted for Trust of the Year at the Health Service Journal Awards.
Location & sites
Queen’s Hospital (Romford) and King George Hospital (Goodmayes), London region
Notes
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