Team Lead Occupational Therapist – Paediatrics
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We are recruiting a 12-month Fixed Term contract Band 7 Team Lead Occupational Therapist to join our Inpatient Paediatric Therapy Team. The post holder will have joint responsibility for the therapy team with the Team Lead Physiotherapist and will carry a clinical caseload. The team provide advanced assessment and treatment of patients aged 0 - 24 within General Paediatrics, Paediatric Oncology, Radiotherapy, Proton Beam Therapy and the Teenage Cancer Trust unit.
We are seeking an Occupational Therapist with relevant clinical experience, looking to develop in a supportive environment. The role is ideal for an experienced Band 6 or a Band 7 looking for a new challenge. The successful candidate will be welcomed into the UCLH Paediatric & Teenage Cancer Therapy Service and the wider Cancer Therapies Team. You will have the chance to develop expertise in paediatric and teenage cancer care alongside nurturing your highly specialist occupational therapy skills as well as the opportunity to build clinical leadership skills.
The post holder will be joining an innovative and award winning Paediatric and Teenage therapy team. The Trust is the largest paediatric and young adult centre for radiotherapy in the UK with a close partnership with Great Ormond Street Hospital. Our Teenage Cancer Trust Unit is the UK’s first and largest unit.
* To provide high quality occupational therapy assessments and treatments independently managing a caseload of patients and ensuring an excellent standard of clinical care.
* To provide expert advice, guidance, and information to patients, carers, schools and other health care professionals.
* To work with patients and families to agree the best course of occupational therapy management and to develop patient centred discharge plans in conjunction with the MDT.
* To facilitate effective and timely management of patients at various stages of the cancer trajectory.
* To understand and apply national guidelines and legislation relating to health and social care, occupational therapy practice and the care of paediatric patients.
* To work with the MDT to incorporate and contribute to the evidence base for this clinical specialty.
* To be jointly responsible for co-ordination, delivery, evaluation, and development of the Inpatient Paediatric Therapy Team at UCLH, with the Team Lead Physiotherapist.
* To ensure effective induction, supervision/appraisal and training of qualified and non-qualified (support staff and students) within the Inpatient Paediatric Therapy Team.
* To maintain high professional standards, continuously promoting and developing the occupational therapy profession.
* To be responsible for your own professional development.
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) is one of the most complex NHS trusts in the UK, serving a large and diverse population. We provide academically led acute and specialist services, to people from the local area, from throughout the United Kingdom and overseas. Our vision is to deliver top-quality patient care, excellent education, and world-class research.
We provide first-class acute and specialist services across eight sites:
* University College Hospital (incorporating the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Wing)
* National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery
* Royal National ENT and Eastman Dental Hospitals
* University College Hospital Grafton Way Building
* Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine
* University College Hospital Macmillan Cancer Centre
* The Hospital for Tropical Diseases
* University College Hospital at Westmoreland Street
We are dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of many complex illnesses. UCLH specialises in women’s health and the treatment of cancer, infection, neurological, gastrointestinal and oral disease. It has world class support services including critical care, imaging, nuclear medicine and pathology.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Nomi Tysman Job title: Team Lead Paediatric Physiotherapist Email address: nomi.tysman@nhs.net
For Further Details Please Contact
Sophie Stockwell - Team lead Occupational Therapist - Sophie.stockwell4@nhs.net
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