Band 7 Occupational Therapist
Job role: Band 7 Occupational Therapist
Department: Therapy – Clinical Operations
Contract type: Fixed Term 1 Year
Salary range: £43,567 – £55,267 per annum (Dependent on Experience)
Hours of work: 37.5 hours per week
Location: Putney, Southwest London
Closing date: 29th March 2024
The RHN is a leading national centre of excellence, providing adult person-centred services that span the entire care pathway from post-acute rehabilitation services to end of life care, for people with complex neuro-disability and their families, underpinned by a strong research and education programme.
The post is rotational across the brain injury service, neuro-behavioural unit, Huntington’s disease service, continuing care unit and the ventilation unit. The Band 7 Occupational Therapist (OT) is a key member of the interdisciplinary team) and has a responsibility for supervision of Band 6 OT’s within the team and overseeing the clinical practice of the OT’s and OTA’s. The Band 7 will be expected to take an active/lead role in the service development for each unit in collaboration with other senior therapists within the team. The Band 7 will participate in: –
- Management of a Clinical Caseload
- Research as appropriate
- Clinical Audit
- Service development within the unit and OT service
- lead IPR’s for Band 6 OT’s
- Oversee IPR’s for OTA’s
- Clinical Supervision of Band 6 OT’s
- Clinical Practice developments and Innovations
Person specification: Essential and Desirable
- HCPC registration as an Occupational Therapist ; member of BAOT/ Royal College of Occupational Therapist.. Essential
- Minimum of 4 years practising as a qualified OT, with a minimum of 18 months in neuro-disability. Essential
- Experience as a clinical supervisor. Essential
- Experience in conducting wheelchair and postural management assessments. Desirable
- Knowledge and use of outcome measures, such as those used within UK ROC (GAS goals, FIM/FAM. NPTDA-PHYS, NPDS-H, NIS) Desirable
- Evidence of leading a team to include:
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- Supporting staff
- Application of corporate and organisational objectives into practice
- Change management
- Service and self-development
- Initiate new ideas Essential
- Evidence of an understanding and skill of team working at discipline and MDT level Essential
- A problem solving, Innovative & Creative approach to assessment & interventions- including client centred goal planning Essential
- Special interest is seating and/or splinting Desirable
- To carry a caseload and take a lead role in the advanced assessment and treatment of patients with highly complex physical and cognitive presentations.
- To work as part of an inter-disciplinary team providing patient-centred care and management to patients at various stages of the rehabilitation pathway.
- To provide leadership for junior staff, through supervision, support and the IPR process.
- To demonstrate awareness of RHN’s objectives and contribute to achieving them appropriately.
- To strive to improve efficiency in all areas of your work.
- To ensure professionalism and excellent communication with staff, patients and relatives.
- To work effectively as part of a specialist multi-disciplinary team, demonstrating excellent joint working and communication, to achieve patient-centred goals and ensure optimal management and rehabilitation of patients with complex physical, cognitive and communicative needs.
- To assess and treat a specific caseload of patients with complex needs, prioritising effectively to reduce risk and manage the patient’s disability or rehabilitation needs
- To assess and treat the patient’s personal and domestic daily living functional activity level to maximise independence where possible
- To participate in MDT assessment and provision or a 24 hour postural management programme, including assessment and provision of splints, participation in assessment of seating and bed positioning
- To delegate tasks effectively, to other members of the OT department or to other members of the MDT, including nursing, including contribution to patient care plans
- To advise on, recommend and make provision for the installation of appropriate aids and adaptations where appropriate
- To carry out community visits and complete timely reports on these, as part of rehabilitation, leisure, or discharge planning
- To attend all relevant meetings, and complete all necessary documentation and outcome measures involved in a patients’ admission, according to HCPC and RCOT standards, in order to facilitate optimal communication and patient management, and to meet Service requirements
- To ensure excellent communication with patients and relatives, and within the team, including undertaking a key worker role as required , and modelling effective team working to more junior staff
- To participate in audit, research and service development as required
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Candidates applying for a role at the Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability will be expected to have received their vaccination against the coronavirus strain (COVID-19) as part of our pre-employment process before commencing employment at the RHN. Please let us know if you have not managed to arrange to receive the vaccine via other channels yet, as we can arrange the administration of the vaccine within the hospital. Please note that if you have a medical reason as to why you are not able to have the vaccine or you have any questions on the vaccination, please feel free to contact recruitment@rhn.org.uk.