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Job summary

Main area
Therapies
Grade
Band 6
Contract
Fixed term: 12 months
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
392-RNOH-745-A
Employer
Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital
Town
Stanmore
Salary
£40,701 - £48,054 per annum inclusive of HCAS pro-rata
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
11/07/2024 23:59

Employer heading

Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust logo

Occupational Therapist SCIC

Band 6

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

After receiving a spinal injury I was in the worst possible position I could ever imagine. Life would never be the same and I really believed that I would not make it. My OT showed me that things were possible and that although life would be very different, it was still worth living. With her help to use a wheelchair and get in and out of bed I began to feel independent again. Now I can see a future, albeit from a wheelchair. Because of the knowledge I was given I can move on and consider myself able-disabled, not just disabled.”

                                                            Simon (Patient with Spinal Cord Injury)

If the above words inspire you we’d love to meet you. Are you an enthusiastic and motivated Occupational Therapist who wants to join a specialist team of Spinal Cord Injury Occupational Therapists and wider specialist MDT in the London Spinal Cord Injury Centre?

The post is for 12 months FTC 

Main duties of the job

You will be responsible to assess and treat routine and highly complex patients in this clinical unit, teach junior staff and students and support the Team Leader in developing the service. You will be required to  provide cover for administrative, managerial and clinical tasks in the temporary absence of another member of the team, as appropriate to own level of experience.

Experience with spinal cord injury is desirable but not essential as we have an established education and training programme within a robust competency framework

Working for our organisation

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

Please see attached job description and Person specification for more information. 

 

Secondment from NHS Trust will be supported. 

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • DipCOT/ Degree in Occupational Therapy. Member of COT or recognised equivalent.
  • Registered with HPC.
  • Evidence of relevant CPD.
Desirable criteria
  • Clinical supervisors course
  • Member of relevant special interest group.

Experience

Essential criteria
  • 3 years minimum post-qualification experience, including 6 months working with people with complex disabilities.
  • 6 months NHS experience at Senior II / Band 6 grade. Teaching experience.
  • Experience working in MDT.
Desirable criteria
  • Experience with staff appraisal
  • Experience with clinical audit and outcome measures.

Skills

Essential criteria
  • Good written and spoken English.
  • Able to communicate with a variety of people, occasionally in emotional distress.
  • Good organisation of self and time
  • Wheelchair assessment. Therapeutic patient handling
  • Discharge planning.
  • IT Skills (to be tested during probationary period)
Desirable criteria
  • Splinting.

Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Sound knowledge of neurological treatment approaches
  • Working knowledge of common adaptive equipment.
Desirable criteria
  • Working knowledge of some specialist equipment relevant to the post.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Apprenticeships logoNo smoking policyPositive about disabled peopleAge positiveInvestors in People: GoldImproving working livesCare quality commission - GoodMindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.Disability confident employerStonewall equality policy. Equality and justice for lesbians, gay men, bisexual and trans people.Defence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) - Gold

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.

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Emma Linley
Job title
Clinical Specialist manager
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
0208 909 5509
Additional information

Supriya Nerlekar

[email protected]

0208 909 5533

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