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Job overview

We are looking for a motivated and versatile team player to join our therapy team within the Surgical and Vascular team to lead on the Surgery Wards, working within the MDT.

The Royal London Hospital is offering an opportunity for a Senior Occupational Therapist to work in a specialist role in the assessment, treatment, and clinical management of patients within surgery, with a particular focus on neuro-oncology and neurosciences.

The ideal candidate will have a passion for Occupational Therapy; excellent communication skills, plenty of initiative and enthusiasm with the ability to work autonomously and as a part of the wider MDT. 

This role also includes being involved, alongside the Clinical lead for surgery, in the development of the wider surgery Occupational Therapists, helping to develop their key OT skills and clinical reasoning and growing our future OT leaders.

Within Bart’s we offer a robust teaching and training programme with the opportunity to complete Quality Improvement and Audit projects, we provide a supportive and engaging environment to develop and grow our therapists. As a Band 7 Occupational Therapist you will 
have the opportunity to develop your own supervisory and management skills through supporting and supervising junior therapists and students. The ideal candidate will have a strong focus on quality improvement and education within surgery. 

The role is for a full-time post and includes covering a weekend Occupational Therapy service. 

Main duties of the job

• To play a specialist role in the advanced assessment, treatment and clinical management of patients with Occupational Therapy needs across our elective and general surgery wards.
• This will be a split role between the OT specific clinical work (60%) and the development and support of our Occupational Therapists within the wider Surgery team (40%).
• To facilitate and support a multi-professional team approach within the clinical area.
• To work with the Clinical Lead Therapist to develop our OT`s within this service.
• Speciality areas include:
  • Neuro-oncology
  • Neurosurgery
  • Spinal
  • Gynae-oncology
  • Lower Gastro-intestinal surgery
  • AAU (weekend working only)

Working for our organisation

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers.  

The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.  

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.  

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.