Job summary
This post holder will be an autonomous practitioner, taking a lead in coordinating and providing a highly specialist occupational therapy service to patients within medical/surgical teams. They will provide assessment and treatment for patients with a wide range of complex physical, sensory, perceptual and cognitive problems within inpatient and community settings. They will manage their own caseload, working alongside the multi-disciplinary team and other external agencies to ensure highly specialist treatment plans. They will work collaboratively with patients, carers and colleagues in health and social services to ensure effective service planning, policy and delivery of services to their specific patient group. They will be the joint lead therapist for this area of service and represent the department at relevant meetings both in and outside the Trust. The post holder will contribute to departmental meetings and lead complex audit and regularly undertake research activities in the specialist area. They will be responsible for planning and delivering highly specialist training to other OTs, professionals and patient/carers on all aspects of sensory, perceptual, physical and functional skills.
Role Responsibilities
* Working Relationships and communication requirements of your job: work with patients, family and MDT staff to identify goals as part of the overall care plan.
* Liaise with the multidisciplinary team, which includes dietician, speech and language therapist, physiotherapist, ward nursing staff, social workers, doctors, community OT/PT/SLT, outreach team.
* Attend reviews and case conferences, communicating relevant observations and information as a member of the team.
* Demonstrate effective written and verbal communication skills with patients and carers, team members, OT colleagues, and other external agencies (e.g. Social Services, equipment stores, wheelchair service).
* Use sound judgement, reasoning, communication and negotiation skills to establish a therapeutic relationship in complex and sensitive cases, managing barriers to communication.
* Communicate complex and sensitive information relating to medical conditions and OT processes, requiring skills of training, empathy, reassurance, negotiation and motivation (e.g. patients with terminal illness, limited rehab potential).
* Liaise and establish effective and efficient communication networks with patients, carers and other health workers and internal/external agencies throughout the hospital and local community.
* Promote awareness of the OT role within the MDT, negotiating priorities as appropriate.
* London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH) serves Brent, Ealing, Harrow and beyond. Our team includes more than 8,200 clinical and support staff serving a diverse population of almost one million people.
Service Provision and Services
* We Run Major Acute Services At:
* Northwick Park Hospital: home to a busy emergency department, with a hyper-acute stroke unit and a rehabilitation unit.
* St Mark’s Hospital: an internationally renowned specialist centre for bowel disease.
* Ealing Hospital: a busy district general hospital with 24/7 emergency department and urgent care centre, and Meadow House Hospice.
* Central Middlesex Hospital: planned care site with surgical and outpatient services and a co-located urgent care centre.
We are a university teaching NHS trust, recognised for training clinicians of the future and bringing the benefits of research to the public.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Laura Walters
Job title: Acute Therapy Lead
Email: laura.walters7@nhs.net
Telephone: 07790986548
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