Senior Occupational Therapist or Physiotherapis

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Fulfil your potential in hospitals that make history:

Charing Cross, Hammersmith, St Mary's, Queen Charlotte's & Chelsea and Western Eye.

With five world-renowned hospitals, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is full of opportunity if you are looking to develop your healthcare career.

We are an NHS Trust of approximately 14,000 people, providing care for over a million and a half patients from north west London and beyond every year. We have a rich heritage and an ambitious vision for the future of our patients and local communities.

With our partners, Imperial College London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, we form Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre, one of 6 academic health science centres in the UK, working to ensure the rapid translation of research for better patient care and excellence in education.

We are proud of our heritage in innovation and we are early adopters of new insights in technologies, techniques and treatments for improving health.

Job overview

An exciting opportunity to enhance your career is available - join our integrated team in the Emergency Department (ED) at Charing Cross Hospital. Our Therapy department provides opportunity for enthusiastic and highly motivated therapists to expand their skills in admission avoidance, complex discharge planning, and frailty. We pride ourselves in providing a high quality of care for our patients utilising the Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA) and working along-side our Frailty Clinical Nurse Specialists.

We are seeking a dynamic Therapist who thrives in a fast paced environment where no two days are the same. You will have the opportunity to assess and treat a wide range of patient cohorts; frailty, falls, dementia, delirium, musculoskeletal injuries, neurological conditions and other long term conditions.

Our team consists of occupational therapists and physiotherapists; we are an interdisciplinary team encouraging skill sharing to empower therapists to be holistic and autonomous practitioners whilst also appreciating profession specific competencies. We are an admission avoidance focussed service, however also appreciate the importance of early therapy intervention for those requiring hospital admission. This is a role which sees a high quality, positive impact on its service users, reducing length of stay and encouraging patient involvement all stages of decision making.

As a team we champion Quality Improvement and you will have opportunities to be involved in Quality Improvement initiatives as well as multidisciplinary team education as part of this forward thinking clinical team. We embed the ethos of the campaign - NHS England's 'AHPs into Action' to pioneer positive change. We also strive to deliver evidence based practise under the Royal College of Emergency Medicine guidelines to inform our projects.

The Therapy Team in the Emergency Department also work as an integral MDT member of OPRAC team (Older Persons Rapid Access Clinic) where we complete therapy specific outcome measures and provide treatments such as equipment provision, home exercise programmes, advice, education, and refer/signpost to appropriate community services. This is a proactive in reach clinic to better health outcomes and improve quality of life for our elderly population.

You will be expected to be able to work in collaboration with the OPAL (Older Persons Assessment and Liaison) team, which is multidisciplinary team working on the Acute Medical wards. This is a gold standard service which aims to complete CGAs to formulate holistic person centred treatments and discharge plans.

Our service operates from 8am-6pm Monday to Friday with varied shift patterns of 7.5 hours. You will also be a part of the weekend service in OPAL and ED, prioritising patients medically optimised for discharge where you will then be allocated rest days.

We are an improvement and education focussed team and value the career progression and clinical development of our team. You will have access to a robust in-service training programme, clinical supervision and wider training and learning opportunities.

Previous unsuccessful applicants need not apply

Main duties of the job

• To provide high quality therapy management to patients at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust.
• To perform advanced interdisciplinary therapy assessment of patients with diverse presentations and complex physical and psychological conditions,
• To comprehensively assess and develop individualised treatment plans for patients entering the hospital via Accident and Emergency, cross covering where the service requires
• The job holder is required to work at weekends as part of their contracted hours of work, (specific rota details are held locally within departments).

Working for our organisation

At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care. Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You'll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.

Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.

We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part-time or job share.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.

Person specification

Education/ Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Degree (or equivalent) in Physiotherapy or Occupational Therapy
• State registration with the Health Professions Council.
• Able to demonstrate specialist learning from previous physiotherapy rotations, formal post-graduate level learning and informal CPD (both general and specific to clinical fields of speciality).

Desirable criteria

• Membership of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy or Royal College of Occupational Therapy
• Membership of CSP/RCOT special interest groups relevant to speciality
• Clinical Educators Course

Experience

Essential criteria

• Recent substantial and sustained experience in relevant therapy specialities and clinical settings
• Experience of clinical education of staff, students or assistants.
• To have undertaken audit and/or research, either within area of speciality or as part of the MDT
• To have participated in service development projects.
• Experience of working as part of a multidisciplinary team
• Demonstrate an understanding of the use of evidence based practice in speciality

Desirable criteria

• Previous experience in the NHS as a qualified physiotherapist or Occupational Therapist
• Experience of on-call and weekend working in an acute hospital

Skills/Knowledge/ Abilities

Essential criteria

• Able to apply a range and depth of knowledge to this specialist area.
• Able to use knowledge of a range of treatment approaches in the specialist area
• Able to make sound clinical decisions based on knowledge/ experience/circumstances and utilise advanced clinical reasoning skills.
• Competent IT skills
• Good presentation skills
• To be able to take part in a weekend service and/ or on call rota depending on specialist post
• Ability to cope with working in a stressful environment and with emotional or aggressive patients or carers.

Desirable criteria

• Well-developed abilities for communication and consensus building skills, to speak to groups.
• Evidence of CPD relevant to role and specialist area.

IMPORTANT:

We are conducting interviews virtually and face to face. If the interview is virtual we require candidates to have the camera on during the interview.

Please note it is an operational requirement to comply with infection prevention and control procedures within NWLP such as lateral flow testing, handwashing and the wearing of masks, according to the procedures in place at any time or location.

We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part-time or job share. Please talk to us at interview about flexibility you may need.

Please ensure you check your emails regularly throughout the recruitment process.

Please ensure you check your emails regularly as this is how we will communicate with you throughout the recruitment process. If you are shortlisted you will be contacted by email and text message (if you provide a mobile contact number).

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

• Job description (PDF, 720.5KB)
• Job description (PDF, 720.5KB)
• Functional Requirement Form (PDF, 272.6KB)
• Our Strategy 2023-25 (PDF, 230.4KB)