Job summary
Band 7 Highly Specialist Occupational Therapist for Emergency and Acute Medicine
37.5 Hours
7 day working with extended hours
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and committed individual to join our unique and vibrant therapy team at the Royal Free Hospital, Hampstead, part of the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust.
We are looking for an experienced Occupational Therapist with an extensive range of clinical and leadership skills to work across our emergency department, adult and medical assessment units.
You will be expected to provide clinical leadership and operational management to the team and manage a clinical caseload of patients requiring complex case management in order to facilitate early discharge, to promote independence and improve patient health outcomes.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will promote the Homefirst mindset with a passion for admission avoidance and will utilise rapid response and discharge to assess pathways to ensure that patients leave hospital in a safe and timely way and that there is safe and effective patient flow. The role will require you to work on a 7 day working roster with extended hours (inclusive of bank holidays).
The Therapies team at the Royal Free is innovative, creative and truly inter-disciplinary, focused on delivering high quality, patient centred care. Our team is friendly and supportive with a strong emphasis on supportive supervision, an active learning environment and a focus on staff welfare and teamwork using the "What matters to you?" framework.
You will need relevant clinical post registration experience of delivering Occupational Therapy in complex assessment and treatment intervention within the acute hospital setting, and state registration through the Health Care Professions Council. This position also requires excellent communication skills and experience working within an inter-disciplinary team and interagency collaboration.
Are you looking for an innovative role in a multidisciplinary team? This fantastic opportunity awaits a dynamic, motivated Occupational Therapist looking to develop clinical, operational and leadership skills.
About us
North Mid is part of North Central London integrated care system - consisting of the NHS and Local authority organisations in Camden, Islington, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey. As with other ICS's, we are working increasingly closely with partners and indeed many of our financial and performance objectives are measured at this system level. Whilst all organisations remain as standalone, statutory bodies we have an ICS infrastructure for making shared decisions and agreeing shared approaches.
We are proud of our staff and want to ensure their training allows them to provide excellent clinical care. We are also a training unit for medical students from UCL and St George's University Grenada, and for nursing and midwifery students from Middlesex and City Universities.
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Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see attached job description for more information about this role and working at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see attached job description for more information about this role and working at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust.
Person Specification
Royal Free World Class Values
Essential
- oDemonstrable ability to meet the Trust Values
Education & professional Qualifications
Essential
- oBSc Degree in Occupational Therapy or Diploma or equivalent
- oHealth and Care Professions Council (HCPC) registration for profession
- oEvidence or portfolio of post-graduate continued development in specialist clinical area
Desirable
- oEvidence of study or intention to study at masters level
- oMembership of specialist interest group
Experience
Essential
- oSubstantial postgraduate experience at a Band 6 level, predominately working with patients with physical and cognitive disabilities
- oExperience of working with elderly patients
- oExperience and ability of working in an acute setting
- oExperience and ability of working within the emergency department and acute medicine
- oExperience of teaching and supervising less experienced staff
- oExperience of teaching and supervising students
- oDemonstrated ability to work autonomously and use own initiative
- oMotivational Interviewing/ Behaviour Change training (CBT or facilitation skills)
- oExperience of multidisciplinary and interagency working
- oExperience of leading a team
- oExperience of clinical audit and/or research
- oExperience of teaching to uni-disciplinary/ multidisciplinary groups
- oEvidence of active involvement in service development & contribution to change within the workplace
Skills
Essential
- oAble to display transdisciplary working competencies across Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy
- oAbility to carry out ward based respiratory assessment and treatment
- oAbility to identify deteriorating patient
- oEvidence of understanding the skills required for service development and evaluation
- oExperience of working effectively and efficiently as part of a multidisciplinary team
- oAbility to demonstrate a commitment to best practice and awareness of relevant national standards/guidelines
- oKnowledge of quality assurance and audit programmes in line with requirements for Clinical Governance
- oAbility to demonstrate self-direction in thought and practice
- oKnowledge of research and development process
- oEvidence of Continuing Professional Development
- oAbility to lead a team
Person Specification
Royal Free World Class Values
Essential
- oDemonstrable ability to meet the Trust Values
Education & professional Qualifications
Essential
- oBSc Degree in Occupational Therapy or Diploma or equivalent
- oHealth and Care Professions Council (HCPC) registration for profession
- oEvidence or portfolio of post-graduate continued development in specialist clinical area
Desirable
- oEvidence of study or intention to study at masters level
- oMembership of specialist interest group
Experience
Essential
- oSubstantial postgraduate experience at a Band 6 level, predominately working with patients with physical and cognitive disabilities
- oExperience of working with elderly patients
- oExperience and ability of working in an acute setting
- oExperience and ability of working within the emergency department and acute medicine
- oExperience of teaching and supervising less experienced staff
- oExperience of teaching and supervising students
- oDemonstrated ability to work autonomously and use own initiative
- oMotivational Interviewing/ Behaviour Change training (CBT or facilitation skills)
- oExperience of multidisciplinary and interagency working
- oExperience of leading a team
- oExperience of clinical audit and/or research
- oExperience of teaching to uni-disciplinary/ multidisciplinary groups
- oEvidence of active involvement in service development & contribution to change within the workplace
Skills
Essential
- oAble to display transdisciplary working competencies across Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy
- oAbility to carry out ward based respiratory assessment and treatment
- oAbility to identify deteriorating patient
- oEvidence of understanding the skills required for service development and evaluation
- oExperience of working effectively and efficiently as part of a multidisciplinary team
- oAbility to demonstrate a commitment to best practice and awareness of relevant national standards/guidelines
- oKnowledge of quality assurance and audit programmes in line with requirements for Clinical Governance
- oAbility to demonstrate self-direction in thought and practice
- oKnowledge of research and development process
- oEvidence of Continuing Professional Development
- oAbility to lead a team
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).
