Senior Occupational Therapist - Neurosciences

Senior Occupational Therapist - Neurosciences

Fast forward your Occupational Therapy career at Imperial. With five world-renowned hospitals, we are full of opportunity for Occupational Therapists who are looking for progression to develop new skills, get involved in quality improvement and collaborate with leading multidisciplinary teams.

Our trust wide specialist rotation in Stroke, Neurosciences and inpatient and community Neurorehabilitation currently has a vacancy for a permanent dynamic and motivated band 6 Occupational Therapist.

Our Occupational Therapists are an integral part of the multi-disciplinary teams across neurosciences. As a successful candidate, you will have the opportunity to provide high quality occupational therapy to patients with diverse presentations and complex conditions, to develop and deliver an individualised treatment programme whilst growing your specialist experience and leadership skills in a welcoming and supportive environment.

Each specialty has support of both band 7 & 8 Clinical therapists to support your clinical and professional development in addition to your peer group with regular peer support meetings and buddy system to support your transition into the trust. We actively support CPD through an established performance development review (PDR) system, in-service training and external courses. There are also opportunities to undertake formal postgraduate study.

This is a fixed term contract until August 31st 2025, but may be extended.

Main duties of the job

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required.

For both overviews, please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.

About us

At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.

Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You'll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.

Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.

We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share. Please talk to us at interview. .

Job responsibilities

• To provide high quality Occupational Therapy to patients at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. To participate in a cross site rotational scheme, providing a high standard of Occupational Therapy to patients within the neurosciences rotations. To perform Occupational Therapy assessment of patients with diverse presentations and complex physical and psychological conditions, to develop and deliver an individualised treatment programme.
• To undertake a significant clinical caseload working as an autonomous practitioner at a specialist level with other health professionals.
• To support service development within the team, to implement policy and policy changes within the clinical area in partnership with MDT colleagues.
• To present a positive and inspirational role model for all team members as well as supervising band 3, 4 or 5 staff members and participating within the student fair share model of offering practice placements.
• The job holder is required to work at weekends covering stroke weekend service as part of their contracted hours of work (specific rota details are held locally within departments).

Person Specification Education/ Qualifications

• Degree (or equivalent) in Occupational Therapy.
• State registration with the Health Care Professions Council.
• Evidence of CPD through maintenance of a portfolio.
• Able to demonstrate specialist learning from band 5 rotations, formal post-graduate level learning and informal CPD (both general and specific to clinical fields of speciality).
• Demonstrate learning of personal effectiveness and first line leadership from experience and from both formal and informal CPD activity.
• Membership of the Royal College of Occupational Therapists (RCOT)
• Membership of RCOT special interest groups relevant to speciality
• Clinical Educators Course

Experience

• Recent experience in relevant occupational therapy specialities and clinical settings
• Experience of working as part of an occupational therapy and multidisciplinary team
• To have participated in service development projects
• Experience of clinical education of staff, students or assistants.
• Experience of supervision of students/ therapy support workers, with development of basic supervision skills.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the use of evidence based practice in speciality
• Previous experience in the NHS or social care as a qualified occupational therapist
• Previous experience of prescribing wheelchairs and seating and other specialist equipment
• Experience with splinting
• Previous Band 6 experience in relevant post
• Involvement with Clinical Governance issues and an understanding of their relation to patient care

Skills/Knowledge/ Abilities

• Able to apply a range and depth of knowledge to this specialist area.
• Able to use knowledge of a range of treatment approaches in the specialist area.
• Able to make sound clinical decisions based on knowledge/ experience/circumstances and utilise advanced clinical reasoning skills.
• Able to carry out therapeutic handling, requiring skilful and strenuous physical effort during the working day.
• Ability to remain up to date with professional practice and research and integrate this into daily patient management.
• Ability to organise, prioritise and delegate as appropriate and manage time effectively.
• Ability to seek guidance and assistance when required and to be aware of personal limitations.
• Ability to cope with working in a stressful environment and with emotional or aggressive patients or carers.
• Evidence of CPD relevant to role and specialist area.
• Well-developed abilities for communication and consensus building skills

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.