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

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 to discuss the role if you are interested in applying. Please contact Lauren Blackburn on [email protected] or 0208 661 3090.

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 post holder 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 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.
• Assessing and prescribing the complex wheelchair and specialist seating needs for example paralysis, dystonia, major surgery, extreme fatigue, pressure relief of patients with cancer.
• Assessing, designing and fabricating static or dynamic splints specific to the individual patient’s needs to enable maintenance and improvement in upper limb functioning.
• 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.