Physiotherapist

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 6 role across our two hospitals in Sutton and Chelsea (which attracts inner London weighting) to work across Adult wards and outpatients.

Why Join Us?

• Structured Preceptorship Programme: Our preceptorship pathway is designed to support Band 5 and 6 Occupational Therapists, helping you build confidence, consolidate clinical skills, and develop professionally from day one.
• Dedicated Practice Educator: We're proud to have a forward-thinking Practice Educator who not only supports student placements but also pioneers innovative models of training. This approach engages service leads as well as frontline staff--lightening the load on clinicians while improving the quality of our training delivery.
• Generous CPD Support: We invest heavily in your development. You'll benefit from:
• Access to multiple CPD funding streams including charitable funds
• 10 days of protected study leave per year
• Opportunities to attend external courses, conferences, and specialist training
• Strong and Visible OT Leadership: Our robust Occupational Therapy leadership team is committed to supporting your career progression, wellbeing, and ongoing development. Your voice is heard, and your growth is championed.

Main duties of the job

The Band 6 Occupational Therapist is an active member of a team that provides a high quality, evidence based occupational therapy service for the patient with cancer.

As a skilled practitioner, the postholder is a source of knowledge and expertise for patients, relatives and colleagues of all disciplines.

With the support of the Band 7 Occupational Therapist, they will organise occupational therapy activities within a defined clinical area and will also liaise closely with all members of the multi-professional rehabilitation team in the provision of a specialist input to a variety of education programmes.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For more information please refer to the job description and personal 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.

Assessing and prescribing the complex wheelchair and specialist seating needs for example paralysis, dystonia, major surgery, extreme fatigue, pressure relief of patients with cancer.

Main Duties of the Job

Liaising with multi professional team within the hospital and community, to achieve optimum rehabilitation outcomes and planned coordinated packages of support across health and social care.

Taking a key role in organising and facilitating discharge planning case conferences where functional independent is paramount.

Teaching patients specialised strategies aimed towards the management of symptoms related to cancer e.g. relaxation and anxiety management, breathlessness and fatigue management.

Carrying out complex functional and risk assessments required to provide appropriate equipment and to teach patients, carers and staff safe and correct use to maximise safety and independence within the hospital and home environments.

Assessing environmental risks and prescription of equipment and adaptations in the patient’s home.  This may involve lone working.

Undertaking risk assessment of manual handling issues related to patient’s rehabilitation, complying with the Trust’s Manual Handling Policy.

Maintaining contemporaneous and high quality patient documentation as well as writing formal reports necessary for the implementation of care packages and home equipment to enable safe discharge and ongoing rehabilitation.

You will be joining a supportive and friendly team of qualified Occupational Therapists working in an acute setting to support needs of patients undergoing cancer treatment across all tumour groups. 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 if you would like to discuss the role. Please contact Lauren Blackburn on [email protected] or 0208 661 3090.