Band 7 Highly Specialised Occupational Therapist - Emergency Dept
Posted 11 hours 13 minutes ago by Royal Free Group
Permanent
Full Time
University and College Jobs
London, United Kingdom
Job Description
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Band 7 Highly Specialised Occupational Therapist - Emergency Dept NHS AfC: Band 7 Main area Occupational Therapy Grade NHS AfC: Band 7 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week Job ref 391-RFL A
Site Royal Free Hospital Town Hampstead Salary £58,133 - £65,261 Per annum inclusive of HCAS Salary period Yearly Closing 19/10/:59
Our trust has over 17,000 staff serving 2 million patients every year. It comprises Barnet Hospital, Chase Farm Hospital, the Royal Free Hospital, North Middlesex University Hospital and more than 30 services in the community. This larger scale organisation provides an unprecedented opportunity for us to continue our pioneering work, particularly in finding ways to deliver even better care to our patients.
Our mission is to deliver world class care and expertise in our clinical services, underpinned by world class teaching and research and we will continue to measure our progress against our five governing objectives: excellent outcomes, excellent patient and staff experience, excellent value for taxpayers' money, being safe and meeting our external duties, and building a strong organisation.
Everyone is welcome at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. We're proud of our diversity and we continue to undertake new initiatives to advance equality for LGBT+, BME, gender equality, staff carers and people with disabilities and lived experiences to promote good relations and understanding between our staff.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is a set of technology that can perform various tasks that typically required human intelligence. Your application is your opportunity to demonstrate to us how you meet the requirements of the role. We recognise that AI tools can support accessibility, equity and confidence for applicants.However, it's important that examples and responses genuinely reflect your own experience and abilities, as these will be explored further during the selection process. AI must not be used to provide misleading or false information during any stage of the application journey. Further guidance can be found in the NLPSS Applicant Toolkit .
Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust is committed to ensuring that its recruitment processes are carried out with integrity, transparency, and fairness for all applicants. To help maintain these standards, we ask candidates to provide accurate and truthful information throughout the recruitment process.
If incorrect or misleading information is identified, this may affect the progression of an application, any employment offer, or continued employment. As part of our due diligence, the company may verify the information provided by applicants and take appropriate act ion where necessary.
We do not charge applicants any fees at any stage of the recruitment process, including applications, interviews, sponsorship arrangements, pre-employment checks, or employment offers. All vacancies are advertised through TRAC/NHS Jobs and candidates are assessed solely on their skills, qualifications, experience, and suitability for the role. If you are asked to make a payment in connection with an NHS job opportunity, please treat this as suspicious and contact the organisation directly using the details published on our official career's website
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.
Main duties of the job 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. 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).
Working for our organisation The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK's biggest and most innovative trusts. Across three main hospitals, our dedicated army of staff care for over 1.6million patients, treat more than 200,000 in A&E, deliver over 8,000 babies and carry out more than 17million tests.
Our size, scale and influence offer you unrivalled career opportunities and a forward-thinking approach to working that works around your lifestyle. From flexible hours and generous benefits, to next level training, we make it easier to take your career to the top.
For more information please follow link
Detailed job description and main 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 shared commitments
Band 7 Highly Specialised Occupational Therapist - Emergency Dept NHS AfC: Band 7 Main area Occupational Therapy Grade NHS AfC: Band 7 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week Job ref 391-RFL A
Site Royal Free Hospital Town Hampstead Salary £58,133 - £65,261 Per annum inclusive of HCAS Salary period Yearly Closing 19/10/:59
Our trust has over 17,000 staff serving 2 million patients every year. It comprises Barnet Hospital, Chase Farm Hospital, the Royal Free Hospital, North Middlesex University Hospital and more than 30 services in the community. This larger scale organisation provides an unprecedented opportunity for us to continue our pioneering work, particularly in finding ways to deliver even better care to our patients.
Our mission is to deliver world class care and expertise in our clinical services, underpinned by world class teaching and research and we will continue to measure our progress against our five governing objectives: excellent outcomes, excellent patient and staff experience, excellent value for taxpayers' money, being safe and meeting our external duties, and building a strong organisation.
Everyone is welcome at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. We're proud of our diversity and we continue to undertake new initiatives to advance equality for LGBT+, BME, gender equality, staff carers and people with disabilities and lived experiences to promote good relations and understanding between our staff.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is a set of technology that can perform various tasks that typically required human intelligence. Your application is your opportunity to demonstrate to us how you meet the requirements of the role. We recognise that AI tools can support accessibility, equity and confidence for applicants.However, it's important that examples and responses genuinely reflect your own experience and abilities, as these will be explored further during the selection process. AI must not be used to provide misleading or false information during any stage of the application journey. Further guidance can be found in the NLPSS Applicant Toolkit .
Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust is committed to ensuring that its recruitment processes are carried out with integrity, transparency, and fairness for all applicants. To help maintain these standards, we ask candidates to provide accurate and truthful information throughout the recruitment process.
If incorrect or misleading information is identified, this may affect the progression of an application, any employment offer, or continued employment. As part of our due diligence, the company may verify the information provided by applicants and take appropriate act ion where necessary.
We do not charge applicants any fees at any stage of the recruitment process, including applications, interviews, sponsorship arrangements, pre-employment checks, or employment offers. All vacancies are advertised through TRAC/NHS Jobs and candidates are assessed solely on their skills, qualifications, experience, and suitability for the role. If you are asked to make a payment in connection with an NHS job opportunity, please treat this as suspicious and contact the organisation directly using the details published on our official career's website
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.
Main duties of the job 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. 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).
Working for our organisation The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK's biggest and most innovative trusts. Across three main hospitals, our dedicated army of staff care for over 1.6million patients, treat more than 200,000 in A&E, deliver over 8,000 babies and carry out more than 17million tests.
Our size, scale and influence offer you unrivalled career opportunities and a forward-thinking approach to working that works around your lifestyle. From flexible hours and generous benefits, to next level training, we make it easier to take your career to the top.
For more information please follow link
Detailed job description and main 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 shared commitments
- Demonstrable ability to meet the Trust shared commitments
- BSc Degree in Occupational Therapy or Diploma or equivalent
- Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) registration
- Evidence or portfolio of post-graduate continued development in specialist clinical area
- Evidence of study or intention to study at masters level
- Substantial postgraduate experience at a Band 6 level, predominately working with patients with frailty, physical and cognitive disabilities
- Experience of working with elderly patients
- Experience and ability of working in an acute setting
- Membership of specialist interest group
- Experience and ability of working within the emergency department and acute medicine
- Experience of teaching and supervising less experienced staff
- Experience of teaching and supervising students
- Demonstrated ability to work autonomously and use own initiative
- Motivational Interviewing/Behaviour Change training
- Experience of multidisciplinary and interagency working
- Experience of leading a team
- Experience of clinical audit and/or research
- Experience of teaching to unidisciplinary/multidisciplinary groups
- Evidence of active involvement in service development & contribution to change within the workplace
- Evidence of advanced clinical reasoning and management of complex cases
- Evidence of a clear understanding of the role of OT within emergency and acute medicine
- Able to display transdisciplinary working competencies across OT and Physiotherapy
- Ability to participate in weekend, bank-holiday and extended hours rota
- Ability to manage acute traumatic/non traumatic spinal injuries
- Ability to identify deteriorating patient
- Understanding of service development and evaluation
- Ability to prioritise workload and time management
- Experience working as part of a multidisciplinary team
- Understanding of clinical governance
- Commitment to best practice and national standards
- Knowledge of quality assurance and audit programmes
- Highly effective interpersonal skills, including assertiveness in a range of situations
- Ability to work both independently and as part of a team
- Physically fit and able to comply with trust manual handling guidelines
- Ability to negotiate at a variety of levels
- A flexible approach
- Self-direction in thought and practice
- Knowledge of research and development process
- Evidence of CPD
- Ability to lead a team
- Self-motivated and able to motivate others
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- By applying for this role, you accept if successful, that your personal data may be transferred from the Trust to another NHS organisation where your employment transfers within the NHS.This is in accordance with the streamlining programme which aims at saving you time and improving efficiencies within the NHS when your employment transfers.Therefore we require you to complete your stat and Man e-learning modules prior to joining our organisation.
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