Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
Band 6 Specialist Occupational Therapist (Rotational)
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Are you an experienced Band 5 or 6 Occupational Therapist wanting to develop or consolidate your skills in an award-winning Trust? Do you want to join an exciting Band 6 rotational programme that covers a range of specialities across acute and community settings?
We are seeking to recruit enthusiastic, driven, and forward-thinking Occupational Therapists to join our Band 6 Occupational Therapy rotation.
Driven By Your Enthusiasm And Interest In Gaining a Breadth Of Experience At Senior Level Within a Friendly And Proactive Occupational Therapy Service
You would provide specialist assessment and interventions across 20 different areas, including:
- Elective orthopaedics
- Older people/Medicine (OPU)
- Oncology
- Specialist Therapy Assessment Team in A&E
- Lane Fox Unit (Respiratory)
- Surgery/Vascular wards
- Hand therapy
- Trauma & Orthopaedics
- Acute stroke
- Enhanced Rapid Response & Supported Discharge
- Guys & St Thomas’ @ home service
- The Pulross Centre (inpatient rehabilitation unit)
- Amputee Rehabilitation Unit
- Community Rehabilitation & Falls
- Surgery/ Cardiovascular
- Intermediate care Lambeth
- Intermediate Care Southwark
- Community stroke services
- Urgent response/@home
- Internal flow hub/ Neurology
- Brompton Heart Therapy Team
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Each rotation lasts 9 months giving you an opportunity to develop specialist clinical and non-clinical skills.
Our Professional Offer To You
As a Band 6 OT you will have an opportunity to:
- Develop your discipline-specific skills, e.g., assess for suitable equipment, minor home adaptations, cognitive assessment, rehabilitation, and discharge planning
- Develop your skills in complex case management of clients beyond the scope of your traditional Occupational Therapy practice
- Develop your skills in holistic assessment, problem-solving, and joint working with other health and social care colleagues, GPs, hospital teams, and voluntary sector agencies
- Develop supervisory, leadership, and service development skills
- Access appropriate GSTT leadership development training courses to support career development
- Support you to be involved in Occupational Therapy clinical meetings
- Develop your skills in service development
The Occupational Therapy service has a supportive and progressive management structure with departmental objectives founded upon the principles of the clinical governance framework and trust core values. Multi-disciplinary working within the Trust is well established, and Students are accepted on placement from several training schools.
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The Trust is committed to continuing the professional development of its workforce. The department has structured in-service training supported by personal and professional development plans and yearly appraisals. Staff are encouraged to attend courses to continue their clinical development and participate in multi-disciplinary training programmes.
At Guys & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, we are committed to providing you with:
- Professional expert advice, including access to our Professional Leads in our Community and Hospital settings
- An annual appraisal and personal development plan (PDR)
- Structured in-service development programs and regular supervision
- Support to undertake research, audit, and service evaluation
- Training links to London Southbank and King’s College Universities
- Support to develop your skills in presentation (for teaching)
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Rose Marshall
- Job title: Clinical Lead Occupational Therapist
- Email address: rose.marshall@nhs.net
- Telephone number: 02071884185
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