Employer King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type NHS
Site King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Town London
Salary £44,806 - £53,134 per annum inclusive of HCAS
Salary period Yearly
Closing 15/02/2025 23:59
Interview date 25/02/2025
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
King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has 300+ therapy staff from occupational therapy, physiotherapy and speech and language therapy. Each service has a head of profession accountable to the chief of therapies who represents therapies across the trust. We focus on equitable provision and shared decision making with our patients.
The King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Band 6 Occupational Therapist Medical/ Neurological Mixed Rotation offers qualified and experienced occupational therapists an exciting opportunity to work at a more senior level across a number of different clinical areas.
You will be working within our supportive therapy teams to provide high quality occupational therapy assessments and interventions and promote the development and improvement of our services.
The rotation posts are between seven & nine months in duration and are across:
1. Acute Medicine Unit
2. Stroke
3. Health and Ageing Unit
4. Hand Therapy
5. Critical Care
6. Trauma and Orthopaedics
Main duties of the job
As a leading teaching hospital, King’s is a dynamic place to work. We pride ourselves on delivering good quality patient care and you will be expected to provide best-practice interventions through evidence-based practice, keeping up-to-date research and ensuring compliance with trust and national policies and procedures. You will identify your learning needs and access internal/ external training and supervision. You will supervise and motivate junior members of staff and students. 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.
The work environment is fast-paced and you will be responsive to the changing needs of the service. You will maintain a high standard of autonomous working, completing prioritisation of a caseload and complex assessment and treatment of patients as well as discharge planning. You will display excellent communication skills and partnership working with patients, their families/carers, multi-disciplinary teams, social services and intermediate care.
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 addressing motor, sensory, cognitive, perceptual, psychological and occupational areas.
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, then implementing this and evaluating appropriately.
9. To plan and implement individual and/or group interventions, in collaboration with clients and carers, to achieve therapeutic goals.
10. To assess and demonstrate to patients and carers the safe use of equipment and adaptations.
11. To liaise with professionals in onward services to ensure continuity of care.
12. To respect the individuality, values, culture and religious diversity of patients.
13. To make appropriate clinical observations and keep accurate electronic records.
14. To write occupational therapy functional and discharge reports.
15. To work as an autonomous practitioner and display appropriate problem solving, analytical and judgement skills.
16. To assist with planning and prioritisation of the team and departments’ workload.
17. 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.
3. To be skilled in communicating reasoning and motivating patients to participate in sessions.
4. To communicate professionally in person and by telephone with families/ carers and other professionals.
5. To manage differences of opinions and difficult conversations.
MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATION
1. To supervise, provide support and complete appraisals with occupational therapists, occupational therapy assistants and technicians and students.
2. To be aware of the importance of staff wellbeing.
3. To contribute to the hospital’s clinical governance arrangements and quality agenda.
4. To assist in developing services and standards according to the occupational therapy objectives.
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 and use a variety of IT systems.
TRAINING, EDUCATION AND RESEARCH
1. To review and reflect on own practice and performance.
2. To promote development of occupational therapists, assistants 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 and changing trends 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.
10. To undertake any other duties commensurate within the grade.
General
The post holder has a general duty of care for their own health, safety and wellbeing and that of work colleagues, visitors and patients within the hospital.
To observe the rules, policies, procedures and standards of King's College Hospital NHS Trust.
To live and role model the King’s Trust Values and Vision.
To observe and maintain strict confidentiality of personal information.
To be responsible for their own personal development and to actively contribute to the development of colleagues.
This job description is intended as a guide to the general scope of duties and is not intended to be definitive or restrictive.
Person specification
Skills
* Able to prioritise and manage stress
* Ability to work collaboratively
* Ability to work autonomously, planning and prioritising own workload
* Able to complete manual handling tasks
* Good communication skills, adapting to barriers to communication
* Knowledge of relevant current policies and guidelines
* Excellent IT and record keeping skills
* Ability to work flexibly across sites and with weekend working
* Ability to develop staff
Qualifications
* Occupational Therapy Qualification (Dip RCOT or BSc OT)
* HCPC Registration
* Portfolio and evidence of continuing professional development
* Member of Specialist Section or special interest group
* Member of Professional Body (RCOT)
Knowledge
* Experience of working as a Band 5 occupational therapist in a physical setting
* Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team
* Experience working with patients, families and carers
* Awareness of the Importance of Equality and Inclusions of Confidentiality
* Demonstrate an understanding of hospital systems for the management of patient assessment and treatment
* Concise and accurate report writing skills
* Experience supervising qualified staff or students
* Experience of presenting to small and large audiences
IMPORTANT
* Check your email account regularly as this is how we will communicate with you
* If you delete the job from any of your accounts, you may be prevented from accessing further communications
* To enquire about your application or inform us of any changes in your circumstances, please contact the named person on this advert
* Please provide email addresses for referees where possible
* Please review the documentation on our recruitment microsite.
Safe Guarding
The Trust takes the issues of Safeguarding Children, Adults and addressing Domestic Abuse very seriously.
The post holder has an important responsibility for and contribution to infection control and must be familiar with the infection control and hygiene procedures and requirements when in clinical areas.
These requirements are set out in the National Code of Practice on Infection Control and in local policies and procedures.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
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