Band 7 Highly Specialist Occupational Therapist in OrthopaedicsNHS

Job summary

We are recruiting to an exciting B7 Occupational Therapy post within Orthopaedics. This post offers a varied caseload including trauma, elective and patients with challenging health and social care needs, therefore knowledge of relevant conditions and ability to manage complex cases is essential. The role will also entail providing support to community patients within the Hip Fracture Early Supported Discharge Team.

The BHRUT focus is on early intervention to support high-quality patient care, therefore excellent communication skills and experience of discharge services such as HomeFirst or Discharge to Assess is an advantage. Strong leadership and team management skills are required to support students and junior staff. In return, you will receive excellent peer support and service development opportunities working alongside the Clinical Specialist.

You will have opportunity to be involved in developing the hip fracture and high-volume elective orthopaedic pathways as well as orthopaedic weekend services.For further information about the role, contact Laura Salter on 01708 435000 x6047 or email [email protected]

Main duties of the job

Using a holistic approach, provide specialist assessment, treatment and advice to patients within your area of specialty, facilitating and maximising patient potential within the service boundaries

To give highly specialist guidance to other members of the MDT on matters relating to your specialist area.

Provide leadership for the Occupational Therapy team, in conjunction with the Therapy Lead and Clinical Specialist, in planning, coordinating, delivering and evaluating the Occupational Therapy service provided to patients within your specialist area on a day-to-day basis.

To provide a lead role in teaching and supporting colleagues in matters relating to specialist area.

To participate in the training of undergraduate Occupational Therapists.

To deputise in the absence of senior colleagues as required both within management and clinical areas.

To contribute to the day to day running and development of the service through promotion, adaptation and development of policies, procedures and guidelines using evidence-based practice and current research

Job description

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.

Applications should be made online, however, queries regarding the application process, assistance with completion of the application form or if you require any adjustments (for applicants with a disability) please contact Pubudu Chandrasekera, Recruitment Advisor, on 01708 435000 ext. 5110. Further details regarding the post may be obtained by contacting the manager as per the contact details above.

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.

They are benefitting from a new electronic patient record (we were the last acute trust in London to introduce one) and our maternity services have been rated good by the Care Quality Commission.

We operate from two main sites - KGH in Goodmayes and Queen's Hospital in Romford. We have two busy emergency departments with more than 346,000 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.

We're proud of our regional Neurosciences Centre, Radiotherapy Centre and Hyper Acute Stroke Unit. We're also part of the North East London Cancer Alliance.

We run a 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. These CDCs are open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week.

The majority of our 8,400 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.