Senior Occupational Therapist

Job Description:

Senior Occupational Therapist  (Band 7 equivalent)

Cromwell Hospital, SW5 0TU

Full Time – 37.5 hours a week

Competitive salary

At Cromwell Hospital, we are looking for a highly skilled Occupational Therapist that can undertake all aspects of clinical duties as an autonomous practitioner within the adult Occupational Therapy (OT) services. They will provide client-centred and evidence-based assessments, interventions, and discharge planning to adults with varied and often complex needs both in an inpatient and outpatient setting in the Hospital.

Referrals to the OT service are received from the inpatient wards including AICU, Acute Admissions Unit (AAU) and Urgent Care Centre (UCC), consultants, GP clinics as well as other external routes including self-referrals. You will be experienced in providing a world-class service to a caseload covering commonly neurology/ neurorehabilitation, surgery, orthopaedics, general medicine and oncology.

As the Senior Occupational Therapist, you will work closely with the Therapy team and wider MDT and actively contribute to the smooth running of the OT and wider Therapy services. You will support senior staff with their roles and assist with activities such as service development and business growth, clinical governance, learning and development, and supervision.

You'll help us make health happen by:

• Acting as a resource of specialist advice for clients, customers, and colleagues within the scope of your experience and knowledge regarding your specialist area

• Establishing and maintaining efficient communication within the multi-disciplinary team (both internal and external) to ensure a holistic and complete duty of care.

• Assisting senior staff in day-to-day management and development of the Therapy Department and your area of speciality to ensure an efficient and safe service for all.

• Participating in hospital and departmental processes that support and encourage professional and personal development of yourself and your colleagues.

• Promoting and adhering to all hospital and departmental Policies and Procedures.

• Taking responsibility for ensuring Wellbeing, Health & Safety and cleanliness across the department and hospital.

• Supporting Bupa's vision, mission statement and values (brave, caring, responsible) and inspire others by leading by example

Qualifications needed for this role:

Essential:

• Degree/Diploma in Occupational Therapy

• HCPC registration

Desirable

• RCOT membership

Experience and Knowledge required:

Essential:

• Proven knowledge, experience and competencies in assessing and managing a variety of physical conditions specifically neurology and including general medicine, surgery, orthopaedics and oncology.

• Previous exposure to managing critically unwell patients.

• Competent in discharge planning and equipment needs assessment incl. 24-hour postural management and ADLs

• Sound knowledge of UK Social Care system and community services

• Previous participation in integrated governance and service development activities

Desirable:

• Competent in wheelchair prescription

• Experience in hands and splinting

• Previous experience working in AICU setting

• Experience in teaching others

Benefits

Our benefits are designed to make health happen for our people. Viva is our global wellbeing programme and includes all aspects of our health – from mental and physical, to financial, social and environmental wellbeing. We support flexible working and have a range of family friendly benefits.

Joining Bupa in this role you will receive the following benefits and more:

• Equivalent to 25 days holiday per year, increasing through length of service, with option to buy or sell

• Enhanced pension and life insurance

• Support with travel costs via a season ticket loan or cycle2work

• Discounted access to online gym sessions

• Bupa health insurance as a benefit in kind

• Option to join dental insurance scheme at a discounted rate

• Access to our Digital GP platform on you mobile

• Emotional wellbeing support

• Access to family mental health line

• Financial wellbeing channels

• Support for carers

Why Bupa?

We're a health insurer and provider. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. Our people are all driven by the same purpose – helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We make health happen by being brave, caring and responsible in everything we do.

We encourage all of our people to "Be you at Bupa", we champion diversity, and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve. That's why we especially encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.

Bupa is a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer. This means we aim to offer an interview/assessment to every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the role. We'll make sure you are treated fairly and offer reasonable adjustments as part of our recruitment process to anyone that needs them.

At Bupa we strive to ensure all our of customers, patients and staff are safe.  All employees have a duty to ensure that safeguarding children, young people and adults at risk is prioritised and acted on appropriately.

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