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Job summary

Main area
Therapies
Grade
Band 7
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Part time - 22.5 hours per week (Weekend working within 22.5 hrs per week - 1 in 6 weekend)
Job ref
392-RNOH-684-C
Employer
Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital
Town
Stanmore
Salary
£49,178 - £55,492 Per Annum inclusive of HCAS (pro rata)
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
21/07/2024 23:59

Employer heading

Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust logo

Highly Specialist Occupational Therapist Adult Orthopaedics Team

Band 7

Please note in order to progress your application, your data will be processed by our 3rd party recruitment providers – North London Partners Shared Service, who conduct recruitment activities on behalf of Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust. 

The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust is the largest orthopaedic hospital in the UK and a global leader in our field.  We provide a dynamic working environment where we support frontline staff to implement improvements so that we can realise our vision of being a world leading neuro musculoskeletal hospital providing the best patient care and staff experience in the NHS, delivering world leading research, and offering a strong foundation of education, training and career progression. Our dedicated staff come from diverse backgrounds, and our patients benefit from the wide range of experience they bring to the Trust. The RNOH brings unrivalled expertise together in one place allowing us to deliver some of the world’s most complex and innovative care to our patients

  • Rated Good by the CQC
  • Two sites, one in central London and one in Stanmore - which has recently opened The Stanmore Building, a new, state-of-the-art inpatient facility
  • Our Research and Innovation Centre works closely with our main academic partner, University College London
  • Recognised as a centre of excellence,  leading on national initiatives, such as the Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) Programme
  • Further major redevelopment underway across the Stanmore site – improving and modernising our facilities to maintain our position as the UK’s leading centre for orthopaedic medicine
  • In the NHS staff survey, over 90% of our staff were satisfied with the quality of care they are able to give to patients - the best result of any NHS Trust in the country
  • Our staff also indicated that they had the best experience of appraisals as compared to all other NHS Trusts.

This is a great time to join us and play a critical role in the next stage of RNOH’s journey to achieving an outstanding CQC rating.

Our aim is to remain a world-leading orthopaedic hospital with the best patient care and staff experience in the NHS. To do this, we have four core values that underpin everything that we do. We use our values to help ensure that we are always focused on the things that our staff and patients believe are most important:

  • Patients first, always
  • Excellence, in all we do
  • Trust, honesty and respect, for each other
  • Equality, for all

Our annual staff survey results have been improving year on year, with our staff telling us that their experience of working at the Trust is getting better and better. They also indicate that our staff feel very loyal to the RNOH and committed to its role in providing the very best care to our complex patient group. We hope that we can welcome you to our growing team soon.

Job overview

This is a unique and exciting opportunity for you to develop your career at RNOH.

The Adult Orthopaedics  therapy team provide specialist post surgical acute care and  rehabilitation to patients admitted for Joint replacement , Spinal , Upper limb ( shoulder and Elbow) and Foot and ankle surgery.  As a tertiary referral and specialist orthopaedic hospital we see complex Orthoapaedic conditions.

The therapy team assess and manage patients during the pre-assessment stage, acute post-operative inpatient stay . They make appropriate referrals for ongoing care for these patients. 

Main duties of the job

You will be the co-lead Occupational Therapist for the  Adult Orthopaedic  service with the opportunity to develop clinical and leadership skills.

You will benefit from a multi professional structure of clinical specialists, peer support and supervision within the therapy department. 

You  will provide supervision and line management to a Band 6 Occupational Therapist  and a Band 5 rotational Occupational Therapist in the team. 

Working for our organisation

RNOH Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust (RNOH) is the largest orthopaedic hospital in the UK and a global leader in our field. We provide a dynamic working environment where we support frontline staff to implement improvements so that we can realise our vision of being a world leading neuro-musculoskeletal hospital providing the best patient care and staff experience in the NHS, delivering world leading research, and offering a strong foundation of education, training and career progression. Our dedicated staff come from diverse backgrounds, and our patients benefit from the wide range of experience they bring to the trust. RNOH brings unrivalled expertise together in one place allowing us to deliver some of the world’s most complex and innovative care to our patients. RNOH is rated good by the CQC and covers two sites, one in central London and one in Stanmore - which has recently opened The Stanmore Building, a new, state-of-the-art inpatient facility. For more information, please access the following link: https://www.rnoh.nhs.uk/

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Ideally you will have had 5 years post qualification experience, with some orthopaedic experience.  This post utilises many transferrable skills from  physical rehabilitation. We strongly encourage an Informal visit or discussion on the phone regarding the post. 

Secondment from another NHS organisation will be considered. 

 

If shortlisted candidates are expected to attend  a Face to Face interview at Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Stanmore.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • DipCOT/ Degree in Occupational Therapy
  • Member of the Royal College of Occupational Therapists or recognised equivalent
  • Registered with Health Professions Council
  • Evidence of CPD maintained portfolio
  • Recent post graduate courses in relevant specialist area
  • Attended courses related to staff supervision/development
Desirable criteria
  • Leadership Course

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Minimum 5 years post graduate experience
  • A broad range of rotations as a Band 5/6 including physical rehabilitation
  • 1 years NHS experience at Band 6 level
  • Attained a high level of clinical competence in your specialist area
  • Well reasoned account of career intentions at RNOH
  • Experience of student and staff supervision
  • Experience of leading audit in specialist area and demonstrates a sound understanding of quality issues
  • Experience of teaching junior staff and undergraduates
  • Participated in IPR
  • Involvement in national clinical interest group
Desirable criteria
  • Experience in NHS
  • Experience working with patients with complex needs
  • Involvement/leadership of service improvement project
  • Undertaken research / evaluation of practice / work based projects and initiated change
  • Participated in IPR Experience as appraiser

Skills

Essential criteria
  • Up to date knowledge of professional practice and new research
  • Detailed knowledge of biomechanical treatment approaches
  • Basic skills in: Splinting, wheelchair assessment, therapeutic patient handling & discharge planning.
  • Understands legal responsibilities of profession
  • Able to present information, written and orally, in a clear, concise and logical manner
  • Competent IT skills Presentation skills
  • Ability to organise and prioritise
  • Ability to communicate with patients with impaired communication abilities. Able to demonstrate empathy, motivate and persuade patients with impaired cognitive abilities or physical senses.
  • Demonstrates clinical reasoning, applying theory to practice
  • Demonstrates a sound understanding of clinical governance and its implications for Occupational Therapy. Interview
  • Ability to carry out moderate physical effort throughout the working day, often multi-tasking
  • Ability to work in a stressful environment and with emotional or aggressive patients and carers,
Desirable criteria
  • Up to date knowledge of relevant specialist equipment
  • Advanced skills in splinting, wheelchair / seating assessment, therapeutic patient handling & discharge planning.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Supriya Nerlekar
Job title
Clinical Specialist manager
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
0208 909 5533
Additional information

Rosalind Moss - 0208 909 5480- [email protected]

Lola Norman 0208 909 [email protected]

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