Band 7 Paediatric and TYA Occupational Therapist

Job overview

The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust is a leading Cancer Hospital in London, and the Occupational Therapy Department is recruiting to a full time, Band 7 role in our Sutton hospital (which attracts outer London weighting) to work across Paediatrics and Teenagers and Young Adults.  You will be joining a supportive and friendly team of qualified Occupational Therapists working in an acute setting to support needs of children, teenagers and young adults undergoing cancer treatment. There is excellent internal and external CPD opportunities, generous support for study leave, parking onsite, and comprehensive staff benefits via Vivup.

We encourage you to contact us to discuss the role if you are interested in applying. Please contact Denise Pessoa on [email protected] or 0208 661 3090.

Main duties of the job

The Band 7 Occupational Therapist is responsible for the provision of a high quality and evidence-based service. The post holder is a skilled practitioner, who will act as a source of knowledge and expertise for patients, families and other members of the health care team.  The post holder takes a lead role in planning, co-ordinating, delivering and evaluating the occupational therapy service within areas of advanced clinical practice.

The practitioner will be responsible for supervising and overseeing the professional development of the Band 6 Occupational Therapists.  In addition, s/he will be involved in education programmes for staff within the hospital as well as externally.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further information on this role, please see the attached detailed Job Description and Person Specification.

• Working autonomously in ward and outpatient settings to provide complex clinical assessment of the biomechanical, sensory, psychological, cognitive, perceptual, and interpersonal deficits affecting the functioning of individuals with cancer, their families and carers through the use of advanced clinical reasoning.
• Developing and implementing individual specialised therapeutic rehabilitation programmes specific to patient’s needs based on activity analysis using a client-centred, problem solving approach.
• Developing and implementing treatment and educational groups for people with cancer and their carers such as Health & Well Being groups.
• Taking a lead in areas of advanced Occupational Therapy clinical practice in oncology and palliative care, and providing a consultative resource for other Occupational Therapists across the UK.
• Assessing and prescribing the complex wheelchair and specialist seating needs e.g. paralysis, dystonia, major surgery, extreme fatigue, pressure relief of patients with cancer.