Highly Specialist Occupational Therapist - London
Job overview
Are you a Band 7 or an experienced Band 6 Occupational Therapist interested in a Band 7 role?
We are looking for a specialist, dynamic and motivated Occupational Therapist with excellent clinical skills and a positive attitude and commitment to providing excellent holistic community-based care.
The candidate will join the established Barnet Unplanned Care Therapy Team, covering the London Borough of Barnet, working alongside a multidisciplinary team to deliver holistic and coordinated care to patients.
The post-holder will join the team based at Finchley Memorial Hospital, to support community patients.
You will be expected to work as an integral part of the Rapid Response/D2A/NWB and Hospital at Home Service to deliver high quality, evidence based occupational therapy intervention.
The role will provide leadership in the development and ongoing quality assurance of the service, undertaking evaluation, audit and contributing to research.
You will be key in being part of service development and support the team to strive for clinical excellence.
Main duties of the job
Experience of working within a community team
Work as a highly skilled senior practitioner with expert knowledge and work alongside clinical operational manager to develop the service
Providing highly specialist occupational therapy care to a community based caseload
Carrying out robust triage of patients referred to the team to ensure their safety and optimal pathway allocation
Ability to provide leadership within the occupational therapy and wider team.
Experience of line management and supervising others Supporting and deputising for the Clinical Lead and Operational manager of the service
Opportunities to take the lead on service improvement opportunities, develop your managerial skills and suggest and lead on audit and research projects.
Highly motivated, passionate and enthusiastic team player with a positive attitude and commitment to providing excellent holistic care and evidence based interventions.
Working for our organisation
Just as we care about our patients’ wellbeing, we care about yours!
We can offer you:
- A comprehensive induction into the community service followed by a local induction to introduce you to the role
- Car lease scheme *T&C’s apply
- Flexible working options
- Annual travel card loan
- Training, support and development in your career
To have a full look at our benefits and what it’s like working for us please go here: https://www.clch.nhs.uk/job/pay-and-benefits
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to Job description and person specification for outline of skills, knowledge and experience required.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria- Educated to degree level with appropriate post graduate qualification in relevant clinical area
- HPC registration
- Evidence Of CPD relevant to the treatment of people with physical and cognitive disabilities
- Up to date CPD portfolio
- Member of OT specialist interest group that is, Specialist section in older adults.
- MSC in appropriate clinical area.
- Leadership / management training
Experience
Essential criteria- Minimum of 4 years post registration experience at band 6 level in a wide range of clinical areas that is, management of chronic LT conditions, respiratory, cardiac, community rehabilitation and neuro
- Experience of Community and multidisciplinary work
- Postgraduate experience of working in an inter- professional and multi-agency team
- Managing complex caseloads
- Good knowledge of the Mental Health Act and other legislation
- Experience of clinical risk management
- Experience of working as an independent clinician whilst providing a clinical lead for senior and junior staff
- Experience in teaching and training
- Leading service and development change
- Experience of working with social services
- Experience of research and clinical audit
- Experience of successful project management within a clinical area
- Experience representing Occupational Therapy at management/strategic level in Trust meetings and external forums.
Skills and Knowledge
Essential criteria- Advanced skills in the assessment and treatment of people with complex multi-pathologies and chronic LT conditions
- Highly specialist evidence-based knowledge of relevant conditions within the speciality, their symptoms and effect on function
- Advanced knowledge and understanding of complex medical conditions and their relation to people who experience long Covid symptoms
- Demonstrate highly developed visual acuity and perceptual skills through the ability to identify a client’s cognitive, perceptual, neurological and musculo skeletal deficits through observation of everyday tasks,
- Ability to apply core OT skills across a range of clinical conditions within a patient centred, goal setting approach
- Knowledge and understanding of National and local frameworks and guidelines for older people.
- Knowledge of outcome measures and evidence-based practice associated with people with physical disabilities
- Ability to problem solve, prioritise and demonstrate advanced clinical reasoning
- Advanced communication and report writing skills, in both verbal and written format
- Skills in supervision and appraisal of assistants, junior therapists and students
- IT skills – e.g. Microsoft Word, Power point, Excel, Outlook
- Presentation skills appropriate for teaching of junior staff, students and peers in in service training setting
- Knowledge and understanding of clinical governance
- An understanding of the importance of involving service users in their treatment and in service development
- Knowledge of research and audit processes
- Knowledge of project management including planning, implementation and review
Other
Essential criteria- Ability to self-motivate and innovate
- Ability to work as a team member
- Ability to be flexible and adaptable
- Appropriate level of physical fitness to perform the job (as outlined in the job description) with or without adaptations
- Hold a full, valid, UK driving licence and have access to a car to use for business purposes (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010)
Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts we may close this vacancy before the advertised closing date. Therefore please apply for this post as soon as you can, if you are interested and you meet the requirements of the Person Specification
Only those candidates who clearly demonstrate how they meet the person specification will be shortlisted for this job.
Interview arrangements will be communicated via email so please check your email regularly following the closing date.
At CLCH we appreciate and are proud of the diversity in the communities we serve and the workforce we employ. Applications are open and welcome to anyone, regardless of your age, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, ethnicity, religion, and disability.
We are proud to say that we follow the workforce race equality standard and 28% of our senior staff (8A and above) are from a BAME background. CLCH also has active BAME and LGBTQI networks:
Disability and Wellbeing Network (DAWN)
Race Equality Network
Rainbow Network which supports LGBTQI staff.
Each network has a champion who is an executive director at the Trust and they hold regular meetings to discuss issues and make plans to improve CLCH.
The CLCH Equal opportunities statement is on our Website Equal opportunities :: Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust (clch.nhs.uk)
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