Band 7 Highly Specialist Occupational Therapist

The Acute Elderly Unit Team in BHRUT are actively recruiting for a motivated and dynamic Band 7 Occupational Therapist to join our team at Queen's Hospital in Romford, Essex.

The team covers 3 Acute Elderly wards and are part of the Frailty service provision. Working in a fast‑paced environment, you will have the opportunity to expand your clinical knowledge and be expected to supervise and educate more junior staff. The successful candidate will be required to demonstrate strong leadership skills and be confident to work as an autonomous practitioner with a focus on complex assessment and discharge planning with robust decision‑making essential for efficient patient flow. You will be familiar the assessment of patients with diverse presentations and complex physical, cognitive and psychological health conditions within elderly and medical specialities to develop and deliver treatment and discharge plans. The team is an integrated service with Occupational therapy, with staff working to develop an enhanced therapy role. You will be supported in your role directly by the Clinical Specialist OT. Peer support will be provided by the existing Band 7 Physio's and OTs and plenty of CPD opportunities are available.

Band 6 to 7 development post may be considered.

To provide specialist standard of Occupational Therapy service to patients within the acute elderly units with a special focus on the assessment of the acute elderly patients, facilitating and maximising patient potential within the service boundaries, using a holistic approach.

To give highly specialist guidance, advice and education to other members of the Multidisciplinary Team (MDT) on matters relating to your specialist area.

Provide leadership for your team (in conjunction with the Clinical Leads and the Clinical Specialists) in planning, coordinating, delivering, and evaluating the Occupational Therapy service provided to patients within your area.

To provide a lead role in teaching, supervising and appraising peers, Band 6s, Band 5s, Student Occupational Therapists and Generic Therapy Assistants.

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

To contribute to the running and development of the service through the promotion, adaptation and development of policies, procedures and guidelines using evidence-based practise.

Undertake supervision, mentoring and performance development plans to promote clinical and professional effectiveness of self and others. This includes performance management, management of disciplinary issues in liaison with Therapy Manager.

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.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Laura Kalanzi Job title: Clinical Specialist Occupational Therapist Email address: Telephone number:

Ext - 6840/3157

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