Clinical Specialist Cardio-Respiratory Occupational Therapist
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A fabulous opportunity to work as a clinical specialist cardio-respiratory OT at The Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals. This post will include inpatient rehab with ECMO and VADs, Critical Care, Stroke patients, Cardiothoracic surgery and Respiratory Medicine and will work closely with other Allied Health Professionals within a multi-disciplinary team model. The post holder will need excellent communication and leadership skills.
As part of Guys and St Thomas Trust, we care about our staff. We offer:
* a free shuttle bus between hospital sites
* 10 days of study leave a year,
* excellent opportunities in research and quality improvement
* a comprehensive health and well-being service.
* Responsible for the management of a specialist Occupational Therapy service in conjunction with the Therapy Lead in their specialist area and contributes to/leads departmental management and Trust initiatives in strategic planning and development of a specialist Occupational therapist service across the whole organisation.
* Uses expert clinical reasoning skills to provide highly specialist support and advice to the occupational therapy team and other medical staff, whilst maintaining a clinical caseload of highly complex patients
* Professional and clinical Leadership in the development and implementation of a comprehensive training and personal development plan for all designated occupational therapy staff and, in conjunction with the management team, strives to ensure excellence of training across the whole organisation.
* Supports the Therapy Lead in a specialist area to identify and implement clinical research, audit and data collection priorities within the area of own expertise to inform departmental clinical development strategy.
* Responsible for maintaining and improving all aspects of clinical governance, evidence based practice and quality assurance in designated area.
* To play a major role in the continuous development of the service as a member of the Occupational Therapy team and as a potential member of a range of Trust quality/process improvement project groups.
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 all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation.
We have a long tradition of clinical and scientific achievement and – as part of King’s Health Partners – we are one of England’s eight academic health sciences centres, bringing together world-class clinical services, teaching and research.
Royal Brompton and Harefield hospitals joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ in February 2021 and is the largest specialist heart and lung centre in the UK and among the largest in Europe.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Trudi Scott Job title: Heart Therapy Team Lead Email address: t.scott@rbht.nhs.uk
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