Senior Occupational Therapist Acute Speciality and Community Rotation

at  Kings College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has 300+ therapy staff from occupational therapy, physiotherapy and speech and language therapy. Each service has a head of profession accountable to the chief of therapies who represents therapies across the trust. We focus on equitable provision and shared decision making with our patients.
We value continuing professional development and promote access to internal and external learning opportunities, including the on-site training facilities and medical school library. This ensures all staff develop skills and knowledge to reach their full potential.
The King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Band 6 Occupational Therapist Acute Speciality and Community Services Rotation offers you as a qualified and experienced occupational therapist an exciting opportunity to work at a more senior level across different areas of the hospital. We promote a learning environment and you will be well supported to learn and grow in your role. You will also work within our supportive therapy teams to provide high quality occupational therapy assessments and interventions and promote development and improvement of our services.

The rotations are mostly at Denmark Hill site unless indicated below. The clinical areas covered are:

• Acute Medicine
• Frailty
• Amputees & Surgery (a split post with Bowley Close)
• Community (Intermediate Care Southwark)
• Critical Care

As a leading teaching hospital, King’s is a dynamic place to work. We pride ourselves on delivering quality patient care and you will be expected to provide best-practice interventions through evidence-based practice, keeping up-to-date with research and ensuring compliance with trust and national policies and procedures. You will relish the opportunity to develop specialist skills in admission avoidance, critical care rehabilitation, fatigue management and prosthetic upper and lower limb rehabilitation.
You will identify your learning needs and access internal and external training or supervision. You will supervise and motivate junior members of staff and students to do the same. You will proactively participate and lead CPD sessions through journal clubs, in-service skills training and peer support. You will be forward-thinking and identify areas for service development, completing projects relating to these in each rotation.
The work environment is fast-paced and you will be responsive to the changing needs of the service. You will maintain a high standard of autonomous working, completing prioritisation of a caseload and complex assessment and treatment of patients. You will display excellent communication skills and partnership working with patients, their families/carers, multi-disciplinary teams, social services and intermediate care.
This post requires a flexible approach to working across sites and a commitment to working weekends on a 7-day working rota.
King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s largest and busiest teaching Trusts with a turnover of c£1 billion, 1.5 million patient contacts a year and more than 15,000 staff based across South East London. The Trust provides a full range of local and specialist services across its five sites. The trust-wide strategy of Strong Roots, Global Reach is our Vision to be BOLD, Brilliant people, Outstanding care, Leaders in Research, Innovation and Education, Diversity, Equality and Inclusion at the heart of everything we do. By being person-centred, digitally-enabled, and focused on sustainability, we aim to take Team King’s to another level.
We are at a pivotal point in our history and we require individuals who are ready to join a highly professional team and make a real, lasting difference to our patients and our people.
King’s is committed to delivering Sustainable Healthcare for All via our Green Plan. In line with national Greener NHS ambitions, we have set net zero carbon targets of 2040 for our NHS Carbon Footprint and 2045 for our NHS Carbon Footprint Plus. Everyone’s contribution is required in order to meet the goals set out in our Green Plan and we encourage all staff to work responsibly, minimising their contributions to the Trust’s carbon emissions, waste and pollution wherever possible.

TRAINING, EDUCATION AND RESEARCH

1. To review and reflect on own practice and performance through effective use of professional and operational supervision and appraisal.
2. To promote development of occupational therapists, occupational therapy assistants, technicians and students according to their training and development needs as identified through supervision and appraisal.
3. To regularly supervise occupational therapy students on practice placement.
4. To demonstrate the ability to critically evaluate current research, apply them to practice and disseminate findings at a local level.
5. To broaden research and development skills through participation in local audit and research projects.
6. To demonstrate ongoing personal and professional development through participation in internal and external development opportunities, recording outcomes in a portfolio.
7. To keep in touch with new developments and changing trends in occupational therapy and participate in wider issues of providing an occupational therapy service i.e. quality assurance, public relations including liaison with the community; planning and policy making.
8. To demonstrate leadership skills through the management of designated projects.
9. To participate in and present on the in-service training programmes, multi-disciplinary trainings and external conferences.
10. To undertake any other duties commensurate within the grade.
    General
    The post holder has a general duty of care for their own health, safety and wellbeing and that of work colleagues, visitors and patients within the hospital, in addition to any specific risk management or clinical governance accountabilities associated with this post.
    To observe the rules, policies, procedures and standards of King’s College Hospital NHS Trust together with all relevant statutory and professional obligations.
    To live and role model the King’s Trust Values and Vision.
    To observe and maintain strict confidentiality of personal information relating to patients and staff.
    To be responsible, with management support, for their own personal development and to actively contribute to the development of colleagues.
    This job description is intended as a guide to the general scope of duties and is not intended to be definitive or restrictive. It is expected that some of the duties will change over time and this description will be subject to review in consultation with the post holder. An individual performance review and the setting of objectives will occur within each rotation.
    All employees must hold an ’nhs.net’ email account which will be the Trust’s formal route for email communication.
    Safe Guarding
    The Trust takes the issues of Safeguarding Children, Adults and addressing Domestic Abuse very seriously. All employees have a responsibility to support the organisation in our duties by;
    ​attending mandatory training on safeguarding children and adults
    familiarising themselves with the trust’s processes for reporting concerns
    reporting any safeguarding child or adult concerns appropriately
    Infection Control Statement
    The post holder has an important responsibility for and contribution to infection control and must be familiar with the infection control and hygiene procedures and requirements when in clinical areas.
    The post holder has an important responsibility for and contribution to make to infection control and must be familiar with the infection control and hygiene requirements of this role.
    These requirements are set out in the National Code of Practice on Infection Control and in local policies and procedures which will be made clear during your induction and subsequent refresher training. These standards must be strictly complied with at all times

Please refer the Job description for details