Job summary
Are you looking for a post to support your transition into senior clinician and would like a mix of rotations to support your development across a range of settings? This rotation offers opportunities in a range of physical and mental health settings and inpatient ward and community services. You will be able to explore different settings and develop skills across mental and physical settings and continue your development when you may not wish to specialise in a certain setting or have not identified where you may want to specialise, this rotation allows you to experience different settings to help you identify where your career aspirations.
Rotations include:
Hammersmith and Fulham - Community Independence Service
Hounslow Mental Health Integrated Network Team
Clayponds inpatient rehab ward
Each rotation is 9 months in duration and offers supervision by Clinical Lead Occupational Therapist and Professional OT/ Therapy Leads in each service area. West London has a strong AHP leadership team and a wider OT management within the trust which is supportive of staff and their development needs. There is an existing across trust AHP Training Programme as well as other training opportunities internally. Staff have been supported with developing their skills across the 4 pillars of practice within trust opportunities and external training as identified by PDR.
Depending on where the successful candidates are placed, they will be on Inner or Outer London HCAS rates.
Main duties of the job
You will carry a clinical caseload in each rotation which will include;
- Assessment and treatment of patients within each service line for an array of conditions and to determine clinical reasoning and Occupational Therapy treatments in line with your case formulations
- To provide a client-centred occupational therapy service to a defined caseload of service users, working with multi-disciplinary team members and the occupational therapy team
- To work as part of a team within the multi-disciplinary Team for the best interests of the caseload
- Supervision of junior and support staff.
To plan, conduct and review audits and service development projects.
About us
West London NHS Trust is one of the most diverse providers of mental and physical health, community and social care in the UK.
Our 3,982 staff care for people in hospital and in the community, helping them to recover and go on to lead full and productive lives. We aim to be the best organisation of our kind in the country.
We provide care and treatment for more than 800,000 people living in the London boroughs of Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham and Hounslow, delivering services in the community (at home, in GP surgeries and care homes), hospital, specialist clinics and forensic (secure) units.
We arerated good overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
Together, we're committed to promoting hope and wellbeing, working with patients, service users, carers, families and partners across the communities we serve.
We are keen to ensure that our workforce reflects the community it serves, particularly in terms of ethnicity, gender, disability, LGBTQ+ and experience of mental illness.
Job description
Job responsibilities
This is a clinical role for a qualified Occupational Therapist.
The post holder will provide Occupational Therapy service to across the rotation areas.
The post holder will complete assessment and treatment of patients within the speciality areas, and to determine clinical case formulation and Occupational Therapy treatment, seeking support from the senior Occupational Therapist as necessary.
The post holder will ensure the service provision supports the objectives of the Trust.
Key Result Areas & Performance:
- To work within the clinical team, managing your own caseload including assessment, implementing and evaluating treatment and applying specialist skills to support patients presenting with varied and complex conditions.
- To be aware of and support with audits and quality improvement initiatives and service development projects within each service area.
- To be involve with and support of students on clinical placements.
Job description
Job responsibilities
This is a clinical role for a qualified Occupational Therapist.
The post holder will provide Occupational Therapy service to across the rotation areas.
The post holder will complete assessment and treatment of patients within the speciality areas, and to determine clinical case formulation and Occupational Therapy treatment, seeking support from the senior Occupational Therapist as necessary.
The post holder will ensure the service provision supports the objectives of the Trust.
Key Result Areas & Performance:
- To work within the clinical team, managing your own caseload including assessment, implementing and evaluating treatment and applying specialist skills to support patients presenting with varied and complex conditions.
- To be aware of and support with audits and quality improvement initiatives and service development projects within each service area.
- To be involve with and support of students on clinical placements.
Person Specification
Qualifications and Training
Essential
- Degree / Diploma Occupational therapist
- Registration with HCPC as an Occupational Therapist
Desirable
- Member of RCOT and or involvement in professional network
- Post Graduate MSc Degree
- Post registration courses e.g. Cognitive assessment and rehabilitation, Manual handling, Goal setting, Frailty and older people's rehabilitation, Student placement facilitator, MOHO
Experience
Essential
- Previous experience of working in the UK or a similar health economy (acute or community) as an occupational therapist.
- Previous general experience to include the following: Older people / frailty assessment and rehabilitation, Medicine and general surgery, Orthopaedics, Falls, Dementia, Mental Health Conditions, Long term conditions
- Experience teaching juniors and assistants
- Experience completing audit and service development
Desirable
- Experience working as an autonomous practitioner in a community setting
- Previous general experience to include the following: Community working, Neurology, Pain management
- Experience teaching students
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- 13.Excellent communication skills, fluency in written and verbal English.
- 14.Ability to maintain accurate, timely, concise and legible clinical records both electronic and handwritten which adhere to the Trust policies.
- 16.Knowledge and ability to use Microsoft Office suite for various administration tasks, including spreadsheets, document writing and email.
- 17.Knowledge and ability to use patient record systems such as SystmOne or similar.
Person Specification
Qualifications and Training
Essential
- Degree / Diploma Occupational therapist
- Registration with HCPC as an Occupational Therapist
Desirable
- Member of RCOT and or involvement in professional network
- Post Graduate MSc Degree
- Post registration courses e.g. Cognitive assessment and rehabilitation, Manual handling, Goal setting, Frailty and older people's rehabilitation, Student placement facilitator, MOHO
Experience
Essential
- Previous experience of working in the UK or a similar health economy (acute or community) as an occupational therapist.
- Previous general experience to include the following: Older people / frailty assessment and rehabilitation, Medicine and general surgery, Orthopaedics, Falls, Dementia, Mental Health Conditions, Long term conditions
- Experience teaching juniors and assistants
- Experience completing audit and service development
Desirable
- Experience working as an autonomous practitioner in a community setting
- Previous general experience to include the following: Community working, Neurology, Pain management
- Experience teaching students
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- 13.Excellent communication skills, fluency in written and verbal English.
- 14.Ability to maintain accurate, timely, concise and legible clinical records both electronic and handwritten which adhere to the Trust policies.
- 16.Knowledge and ability to use Microsoft Office suite for various administration tasks, including spreadsheets, document writing and email.
- 17.Knowledge and ability to use patient record systems such as SystmOne or similar.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
