Job overview
We have an exciting opportunity for a Band 6 Occupational Therapist to join our fast paced and dynamic Acute Frailty Therapy Team.
As a Band 6 Occupational Therapist in a large and busy team you will be required to demonstrate leadership skills and be confident to work as an autonomous practitioner with a focus on early assessment and discharge planning, with rapid and robust decision-making essential for efficient patient flow. You will be familiar with the assessment of patients with diverse presentations and complex physical, cognitive, and psychological health conditions within elderly and medical specialities to develop and deliver treatment and discharge plans.
The Team works closely with the larger Multidisciplinary Team to care for acutely unwell frail patients attending the hospital and through collaborative decision making with our colleagues we facilitate safe and rapid discharge from hospital. We are based in Queen’s Emergency Department, Frailty SDEC, Medical SDEC, Queen’s Frailty Unit and Elderly Short Stay Ward in Queen’s Hospital.
The team is an integrated service with Physiotherapy, and you will be supported by Band 7 Occupational Therapists as well as two Band 8a Clinical Leads and a Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist. The team is very supportive and there are lots of opportunities to develop both clinical and non-clinical skills, with access to internal and external courses.
Main duties of the job
Through a holistic approach, to provide a high standard of Occupational Therapy service, facilitating and maximising patient potential within the service boundaries.
To fulfil a teaching and supervisory role with peers, junior staff and students on placement
Working for our organisation
We’re an organisation that is getting better and betterand ourimprovements are driven by a determination to deliver care we’re proud of and our patients are happy with.
They are benefitting from a new (we were the last acute trust in London to introduce one) and our maternity services have been by the Care Quality Commission.
We operate from two main sites – KGH in Goodmayes and Queen’s Hospital in Romford. We have two busy emergency departments with more than 346,000 people visiting them last year. We’re campaigning to secure the £35m we need to and get rid of corridor care.
We’re proud of our regional Neurosciences Centre, Radiotherapy Centre and Hyper Acute Stroke Unit. We’re also part of the.
We run a in Ilford; an in Hornchurch; and Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) at and at. These CDCs are open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week.
The majority of our 8,400 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 and more than 400 of them are on our Ofsted accredited. We’re proud to be a employer.
Some of the positive changes we’ve made are captured in .
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information on this role, please see the attached detailed Job Description and Person Specification.
The person specification listed below is not the full specification requirements for the role. Please ensure you review the full specification on the job description prior to submitting your application.
Applicants are advised to read all the information on the advert and the supporting information before completing and submitting an application. As you complete your application please ensure you clearly demonstrate how you meet the criteria in the person specification for this post by adequately completing the supporting information section of the application form.
All new staff appointed at the Trust are subject to a probationary period.
Person specification
Education/ Qualifications
Essential criteria
1. Degree/Diploma in Occupational Therapy
2. H.C.P.C. Registration
3. Evidence of CPD
Desirable criteria
4. Post graduate clinical training
5. RCOT/BAOT Membership
6. Clinical supervisors training
Skills/ Abilities
Essential criteria
7. Ability to organise, prioritise and delegate
8. Ability to work without supervision
9. Ability to demonstrate knowledge of limitations of own clinical practice
10. Ability to demonstrate skills in assessment and treatment of patients in line with current practice and research
11. Understand the legal responsibilities of the profession and their implications for practice
12. Understand clinical governance and its implications for service delivery and demonstrate evidence of its application ie audit
13. Ability to communicate complex and sensitive information (verbal, nonverbal and written) in an accurate, clear and logical manner
14. Experience of supervision of other staff i.e. junior staff, assistants and students
15. Ability to work occasionally at moderate to intense physical effort throughout the day
16. Ability to cope working in a stressful environment and with emotional or aggressive patients and carers
Experience/ Knowledge
Essential criteria
17. To have broad NHS clinical experience during Band 5 rotations
18. Active participation of in-service training
19. Evidence of recent working within an acute NHS hospital setting and treating patients with complex needs
Desirable criteria
20. Experience of working in a rapid assessment area or Emergency
21. Training of Occupational Therapy students
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.