Senior Occupational Therapist Acute Speciality and Community Rotation
NHS AfC: Band 6
Main area: Occupational Therapy
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 6
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 213-PRUH-6793887-A
Employer: King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Denmark Hill
Town: London
Salary: £44,806 - £53,134 per annum inclusive of HCAS
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 12/01/2025 23:59
King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s largest and busiest teaching Trusts with a turnover of c£1.7 billion, 1.5 million patient contacts a year and more than 15,000 staff based across 5 main sites in South East London. The Trust provides a full range of local hospital services across its different sites, and specialist services from King’s College Hospital (KCH) sites at Denmark Hill in Camberwell and at the Princess Royal University Hospital (PRUH) site in the London Borough of Bromley.
Job overview
The King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Band 6 Occupational Therapist Acute Speciality and Community Services Rotation offers you as a qualified and experienced occupational therapist an exciting opportunity to work at a more senior level across different areas of the hospital. We promote a learning environment and you will be well supported to learn and grow in your role. You will also work within our supportive therapy teams to provide high quality occupational therapy assessments and interventions and promote development and improvement of our services.
The rotations are mostly at Denmark Hill site unless indicated below. The clinical areas covered are:
1. Acute Medicine
2. Amputees & Surgery (a split post with Bowley Close)
3. Community (Intermediate Care Southwark)
4. Critical Care
Main duties of the job
You will be expected to provide best-practice interventions through evidence-based practice, keeping up-to-date with research and ensuring compliance with trust and national policies and procedures. You will relish the opportunity to develop specialist skills in admission avoidance, critical care rehabilitation, fatigue management and prosthetic upper and lower limb rehabilitation.
You will identify your learning needs and access internal and external training or supervision. You will supervise and motivate junior members of staff and students to do the same. You will proactively participate and lead CPD sessions through journal clubs, in-service skills training and peer support. You will be forward-thinking and identify areas for service development, completing projects relating to these in each rotation.
This post requires a flexible approach to working across sites and a commitment to working weekends on a 7-day working rota.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
CLINICAL
1. To identify, prioritise and manage patients who require occupational therapy input.
2. To assess and treat patients with complex needs who would benefit from a coordinated multidisciplinary assessment, rehabilitation and discharge services.
3. To be competent in the administration of specific occupational therapy assessments of motor, sensory, cognitive, perceptual, psychosocial and occupational areas.
4. To be competent in the development and implementation of remedial and preventative treatment programmes.
5. To identify risks, complete risk assessments and implement risk management strategies.
6. To recognise any change in the condition of the patient and alter treatment accordingly or escalate to medical teams as required.
7. To work within local policies and procedures, national standards and guidelines.
8. To support patients in setting their own goals.
9. To plan and implement individual and/or group interventions.
10. To select evidence based techniques as part of a coordinated treatment program.
11. To assess and demonstrate to patients and carers the safe use of equipment.
12. To liaise with professionals in onward services.
13. To respect the individuality, values, culture and religious diversity of patients.
14. To make appropriate clinical observations and keep accurate electronic records.
15. To write occupational therapy functional and discharge reports.
16. To work as an autonomous practitioner and display appropriate problem solving skills.
17. To assist with planning and prioritisation of the team and departments’ workload.
18. To comply with all relevant trust policies, procedures and guidelines.
COMMUNICATION
1. To communicate complex information to patients and family/carers.
2. To actively participate in team meetings within the occupational therapy department and with the MDT.
3. To be skilled in communicating reasoning and motivating patients to participate in sessions.
4. To communicate professionally in person and by telephone.
5. To manage differences of opinions and difficult conversations.
MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATION
1. To supervise, provide support and complete appraisals with occupational therapists and students.
2. To be aware of the importance of staff wellbeing.
3. To contribute to the hospital’s clinical governance arrangements.
4. To assist in developing services and standards.
5. To participate in the planning, evaluation and audit of practice.
6. To be responsible for competent use and maintenance of equipment.
7. To carry out administrative duties as required.
8. To have good IT skills.
TRAINING, EDUCATION AND RESEARCH
1. To review and reflect on own practice and performance.
2. To promote development of occupational therapists and students.
3. To regularly supervise occupational therapy students on practice placement.
4. To demonstrate the ability to critically evaluate current research.
5. To broaden research and development skills.
6. To demonstrate ongoing personal and professional development.
7. To keep in touch with new developments in occupational therapy.
8. To demonstrate leadership skills through the management of designated projects.
9. To participate in and present on the in-service training programmes.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Occupational Therapy Qualification (Dip RCOT or BSc OT)
* HCPC Registration
* Member of Professional Body (RCOT)
Knowledge
* Experience of working as a Band 5 OT in a physical setting
* Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team
* Experience working with patients, families and carers
* Awareness of Confidentiality
* Awareness of the Importance of Equality and Inclusion
* Concise and accurate report writing skills
* Experience supervising qualified staff or students
* Experience of presenting to small and large audiences
Skills
* Able to prioritise and manage stress
* Ability to work collaboratively
* Good communication skills, adapting to barriers to communication
* Excellent IT and record keeping skills
* Ability to work flexibly across sites and with weekend working
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