Senior Occupational Therapist – Adolescent Therapies

at  University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Are you looking for a new challenge? Are you interested in service development? Would you like to work for an organisation committed to providing high quality tertiary level care? Then you could be the person for us.
An opportunity has arisen for a Senior Occupational Therapist with a special interest in Adolescent Rehabilitation to join the Post Covid service based at University College Hospital, as well as the established Treatment of Adolescents with Complex Conditions Service (TRACCS). The post holder will be responsible for providing a high level occupational therapy service to Post Covid patients and TRACCS patients, typically for conditions such as ME/CFS and Functional Disorders in an inpatient, day care, and outpatient setting. Alongside this there will be a responsibility to provide a service to the much smaller percentage of acute inpatients.
Are you looking for a new challenge? Are you interested in service development? Would you like to work for an organisation committed to providing high quality tertiary level care? Then you could be the person for us.
An opportunity has arisen for a Senior Occupational Therapist with a special interest in Adolescent Rehabilitation to join the Post Covid service based at University College Hospital, as well as the established Treatment of Adolescents with Complex Conditions Service (TRACCS). The post holder will be responsible for providing a high level occupational therapy service to Post Covid patients and TRACCS patients, typically for conditions such as ME/CFS and Functional Disorders in an inpatient, day care, and outpatient setting. Alongside this there will be a responsibility to provide a service to the much smaller percentage of acute inpatients.
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) is one of the most complex NHS trusts in the UK, serving a large and diverse population. We provide academically led acute and specialist services, to people from the local area, from throughout the United Kingdom and overseas. Our vision is to deliver top-quality patient care, excellent education, and world-class research.
We provide first-class acute and specialist services across eight sites:
University College Hospital (incorporating the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Wing)
National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery
Royal National ENT and Eastman Dental Hospitals
University College Hospital Grafton Way Building
Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine
University College Hospital Macmillan Cancer Centre
The Hospital for Tropical Diseases
University College Hospital at Westmoreland Street
We are dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of many complex illnesses. UCLH specialises in women’s health and the treatment of cancer, infection, neurological, gastrointestinal and oral disease. It has world class support services including critical care, imaging, nuclear medicine and pathology.
At UCLH, we have a real ‘One Team’ ethos, and our values – safety, kindness, teamwork and improving, are central to the way we work. This is supported by our staff, who voted us as the #1 NHS Acute Trust to work for in the whole of England.
For the full Person Specification and more information regarding the main responsibilities of this role, please refer to the attached Job Description.
We are committed to sustainability and have pledged to become a carbon net zero health service, embedding sustainable practice throughout UCLH. We have set an ambitious target of net zero for our direct emissions by 2031 and indirect emissions by 2040

Please refer the Job description for details