Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust
Band 7 Highly Specialist Occupational Therapist Medical Specialties
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About the Role
The Medical Specialties and Oncology therapy team is seeking a highly motivated individual to join us in a newly developed rotational Band 7 OT position.
- Passionate about acute medicine, oncology, and palliative care
- Enjoy working in a fast-paced acute healthcare environment
- Demonstrate advanced communication and strong leadership skills
We are seeking an individual who can demonstrate rapid and robust decision-making skills while considering what matters most to the patient and families. The role will have a large focus on MDT working and supporting innovation and development in the team. You will be supported by your Band 7 peers and Clinical Lead Therapist to deliver service improvement.
The post holder will rotate on a 12-month basis across the following specialties: Renal, acute oncology & palliative care. Other specialities covered include gastroenterology, endocrine & a short stay ward.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to the development, implementation, and monitoring of the provision of services to patients across the medical specialty & oncology wards.
- Give highly specialist guidance to other members of the MDT on matters relating to your specialist area.
- Negotiate and enable changes in the patient’s quality of life, by developing their transition between roles and optimising purposeful, meaningful activity. This involves assessment, practice of functional tasks, counselling, motivating, and reintegration back into the community and includes supporting the patient’s carer/relative and educating them on specific rehabilitation techniques to optimise independence.
- Provide a consultation role in teaching and supporting colleagues on matters relating to specialist area.
- Provide highly specialist guidance and advice to other members of the Multidisciplinary Team (MDT) on matters relating to your specialist area.
- Provide leadership for the Occupational Therapy team, in conjunction with the Clinical Lead and other Band 7 staff, in planning, coordinating, delivering, and evaluating the Occupational Therapy service provided to patients across medical specialty wards.
- Provide a lead role in teaching, supervising, and appraising peers, Band 6 and Band 5, Student Occupational Therapists, Therapy Assistants on a daily basis.
- Deputise in the absence of senior colleagues as required.
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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.
- Benefitting from a new electronic patient record (we were the last acute trust in London to introduce one)
- Maternity services rated good by the Care Quality Commission
- Operate from two main sites – KGH in Goodmayes and Queen’s Hospital in Romford
- Two busy emergency departments with more than 346,000 people visiting them last year
- Campaigning to secure the £35m needed to transform the A&E at Queen’s and get rid of corridor care
- Proud of our regional Neurosciences Centre, Radiotherapy Centre, and Hyper Acute Stroke Unit
- Part of the North East London Cancer Alliance
- 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
- 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
- Proud to be a London Living Wage employer
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Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Lucy Brooks
- Job Title: Therapy Manager
- Email Address: Lucy.Brooks3@nhs.net
- Telephone Number: 01708435000 Ext 6455
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