Critical Care Occupational Therapist

4 weeks ago

London, Greater London, United Kingdom NHS Full time
Specialist Occupational Therapist Role in Critical Care

NHS is a leading provider of healthcare services, dedicated to delivering comprehensive and patient-centred care. Our critical care unit at St Mary's Hospital is a dynamic and demanding environment where patients and their families are at the heart of our work. We are seeking an enthusiastic and experienced occupational therapist to join our critical care therapy team based on the St Mary's Hospital site.

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced occupational therapist with a keen interest in working within critical care and developing within this role. St Mary's Hospital is one of four major trauma units within London, and our critical care unit involves a complex adult trauma caseload. Our occupational therapists are involved in a wide range of patient care, working with head and spinal cord injury patients, complex orthopedic patients, and long-term patients with ICU-acquired weakness and ongoing rehabilitation needs.

The successful candidate will have the opportunity to develop their specialist skills, knowledge, and leadership working within the critical care therapy team with other experienced occupational therapists. You will also be supported by a band 8a clinical specialist occupational therapist based in critical care, who has a wealth of clinical knowledge and is passionate about developing the profession in this area.

Key Responsibilities
  • To provide comprehensive and specialist therapy assessment and diagnosis for patients with a range of highly complex presentations, utilising advanced clinical reasoning, evidence-based knowledge, investigative and analytical skills, and specialist assessment techniques.
  • To ensure own and direct reports' Personal Development Plans (PDP) are in line with therapies and trust objectives.
About Us

At Imperial College Healthcare, you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.

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.

Personal Specification
  • Degree (or equivalent) in occupational therapy.
  • State registration with the Health Professions Council.
  • Evidence of CPD through maintenance of a portfolio, especially in the relevant clinical area.
  • Clinical Educators course or equivalent.
  • Membership of the Professional Organisation.
  • Membership of Professional special interest groups relevant to speciality.
  • Management skills or leadership training.
Experience
  • Significant recent clinical experience in relevant clinical area.
  • Evidence of a broad base of clinical experience at Band 6 level or equivalent.
  • Significant experience of working as an integral member of a multidisciplinary team and inter-agency working.
  • Experience of multidisciplinary goal planning, development of care pathways, and using outcome measures.
  • Experience of organising and implementing training programmes for therapists, MDT members, support workers, students, and apprentices.
  • Experience of service development/change management.
  • Experience in implementing evidence-based practice in speciality.
  • Experience of on-call and weekend working in an acute hospital (if required for job role).
  • Previous Band 7 or equivalent experience in relevant post.
  • Leadership of a therapy team.
  • Recent, relevant work in an NHS environment.
  • Experience of using clinical governance framework to monitor and improve quality of patient care.
  • Clinical research experience.
  • Experience of planning and managing service improvement activities.
Skills/Knowledge/Abilities
  • Advanced knowledge of assessment and treatment approaches for the effective management of relevant conditions.
  • Advanced skills in the appropriate application of a range of techniques and approaches to the management of relevant conditions.
  • Advanced clinical reasoning and problem-solving skills.
  • Advanced knowledge of relevant conditions.
  • Advanced knowledge of the evidence base of the relevant therapy area.
  • Knowledge of the influence of psychosocial and cultural factors on health/illness behaviours.
  • Ability to remain updated with professional practice and research and integrate this into daily patient management.
  • Ability to organise, prioritise, and delegate as appropriate and manage time effectively.
  • Knowledge of recent NHS developments and their impact on service provision.
  • Advanced computer skills for presentation and data analysis.
  • Negotiation and conflict resolution skills.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975, and as such, it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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