Rotational Occupational Therapist

Job overview

We and pleased to announce that we have opportunities for enthusiastic Occupational Therapists to join our Band 5 Occupational Therapy rotation which operates across our 3 main sites: St Mary’s hospital - the major trauma centre for the North West London network, Charing Cross hospital which is a specialist stroke and neuroscience centre and Hammersmith hospital where the specialist heart attack centre is situated.

Rotations take place every six months with rotations in; elective orthopaedics, orthopaedic trauma, surgical rehab and cardiology, renal medicine, stroke, neurology & neurosurgery, respiratory medicine, acute medicine, major trauma, Charing Cross Neurological Rehabilitation Unit (CNRU), medicine for the elderly, elderly rehabilitation, community (falls team or bedded rehab), hand therapy and oncology. All Band 5s are expected to undertake a mixture of rotations across the 3 sites.

Please note now to avoid any disappointment later, it will not be possible to undertake all your rotations within one clinical specialism eg neurosciences, or at one particular site.

Main duties of the job

• To plan and deliver a patient centred therapy service to patients in hospital and in the community.
• To be professionally and legally accountable and responsible for all aspects of your own work, including the management of patients in your care.
• To routinely provide advice, education and support to patients and their carers as part of the therapy process. To adopt a patient centred treatment approach in order to support meaningful participation in life roles.
• To demonstrate effective communication skills when attending and contributing to ward rounds, meetings and case conferences relating to caseload.
• To be responsible for maintaining accurate andcomprehensive patient records in line with the legal requirements, trust guidelines and professional standard of practice.
• To collect, collate and reports statistical information in line with departmental and trust policy.
• To develop clinical and teaching skills via continuous personal and professional development (CPPD), including maintenance of an up to date CPPD portfolio.
• To participate in the Band 5 peer support group.
• Build and sustain professional relationships both as an independent practitioner and collaboratively as a member of the team.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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.

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.