Job summary
We are actively recruiting for a Band 8a Clinical Specialist Occupational Therapist to join our Acute Elderly Therapy Team at Queen's Hospital in Romford, Essex. This is a newly created post, and the successful candidate will be working alongside colleagues within the Acute Elderly Therapy Team providing specialist frailty input to frail, elderly and acute medical patients in the Elderly Wards. As a Clinical Specialist Occupational Therapist in a large and busy team you will be required to demonstrate expert clinical skills and knowledge, manage a complex caseload autonomously and lead education, training and development for Occupational Therapists within the team. Strong leadership skills, excellent communication, and effective problem-solving skills will be required. You will have highly specialist experience of working in an integrated Therapies team in acute elderly areas with a special interest in frail elderly. You will be working alongside two Band 8a Clinical Lead Therapists (job sharing) and supported by the Therapy Service Manager. In line with the Government agenda for the NHS, participation in our Enhanced Weekend Working Service within the wider Therapy Team will be required.
Main duties of the job
Through a holistic approach, provide a specialist standard of Occupational Therapy service to complex frail and elderly patients and carers, facilitating and maximising patient and carer safety and potential within the service boundaries at Queens Hospital, King George Hospital and associated community areas.
To demonstrate advanced and expert knowledge and skills in the autonomous management of frailty patients within acute elderly wards. To act as a source of expertise on the Occupational Therapy management of frailty and current evidence-based practice.
About us
We're an organisation that is getting better and better and our improvements are driven by a determination to deliver care we're proud of and our patients are happy with. We're no longer in special measures; we've opened two new theatres at our Elective Surgical Hub in King George Hospital (KGH); and Matthew Trainer, our Chief Executive, has been named the top CEO by the Health Service Journal.
We operate from two main sites - KGH in Goodmayes and Queen's Hospital in Romford. We have two busy emergency departments with more than 330,000 people visiting them last year. We're campaigning to secure the £35m we need to transform the A&E at Queen's and get rid of corridor care.
Our patients are benefitting from our Women's Health Hub in Ilford; an Ageing Well Centre in Hornchurch; and Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) at Barking Community Hospital and at St George's Health and Wellbeing Hub in Hornchurch.
These CDCs are open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week and are providing an extra 88,000 scans a year.
The majority of our 8,000 staff - who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. Many can work flexibly and more than 400 of them are on our Ofsted accredited apprenticeship programmes. We're proud to be a London Living Wage employer.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For further information on this role, please see the attached detailed Job Description and Person Specification.
The person specification listed below is not the full specification requirements for the role. Please ensure you review the full specification on the job description prior to submitting your application.
Applicants are advised to read all the information on the advert and the supporting information before completing and submitting an application. As you complete your application please ensure you clearly demonstrate how you meet the criteria in the person specification for this post by adequately completing the supporting information section of the application form.
All new staff appointed at the Trust are subject to a probationary period.
Person Specification
Education/ Qualifications
Essential
* Degree/Diploma in Occupational Therapy
Desirable
* Post graduate training to MSc level
Skills/ Abilities
Essential
* Highly specialist skills in Occupational Therapy assessment and treatment of frail patients in the acute setting, including rapid assessment areas
Experience/ Knowledge
Essential
* Expert knowledge of relevant conditions, including acute frailty
Desirable
* To have extensive broad clinical experience in acute care
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