Job summary
- Main area
- Mental Health
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 282-SA455
- Employer
- The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Royal Marsden Sutton
- Town
- Sutton
- Salary
- £42,939 - £50,697 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 19/05/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Specialist Occupational Therapist
NHS AfC: Band 6
Job overview
The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust is a leading Cancer Hospital in London, and the Occupational Therapy Department is recruiting to a full time, Band 6 role in our Sutton hospital (which attracts outer London weighting) to work across Adult wards and outpatients.
You will be joining a supportive and friendly team of qualified Occupational Therapists working in an acute setting to support needs of patients undergoing cancer treatment across all tumour groups. There is excellent internal and external CPD opportunities, generous support for study leave, parking onsite, and comprehensive staff benefits via Vivup.
We encourage you to contact us to discuss the role if you are interested in applying. Please contact Denise Pessoa on [email protected] or 0208 661 3090.
Main duties of the job
- The Band 6 Occupational Therapist is an active member of a team that provides a high quality, evidence based occupational therapy service for the patient with cancer.
- As a skilled practitioner, the postholder is a source of knowledge and expertise for patients, relatives and colleagues of all disciplines.
- With the support of the Band 7 Occupational Therapist, they will organise occupational therapy activities within a defined clinical area and will also liaise closely with all members of the multi-professional rehabilitation team in the provision of a specialist input to a variety of education programmes.
Working for our organisation
The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust is a world-leading cancer centre. Our role is to offer our patients the best cancer care available anywhere in the world, and to continue to make a global contribution to finding better ways of diagnosing and treating cancer. We employ over 4,500 staff in a diverse range of careers including nursing, medical, science, radiography, pharmacy, occupational therapy, finance and administrative services. We have two hospitals – one in Chelsea, London, and one in Sutton, Surrey – as well as a Medical Daycare Unit in Kingston Hospital.
At The Royal Marsden, we deal with cancer every day, so we understand how valuable life is. When people entrust their lives to us, they have the right to demand the very best. That's why the pursuit of excellence lies at the heart of everything we do.
At the heart of the hospital is our dedicated team. We offer a stimulating and dynamic working environment, a wide range of staff benefits, learning and development opportunities and clear career pathways. There are opportunities to work flexibly across a range of areas and specialities and we welcome flexible working requests from point of hire to support employees work life balance. We are looking for employees who aspire to excellence, share our values and can play a crucial role in our on-going achievements.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information on this role, please see the attached detailed Job Description and Person Specification:
- Working autonomously in ward and outpatient settings to provide complex clinical assessment of the biomechanical, sensory, psychological, cognitive, perceptual and interpersonal deficits affecting the functioning of individuals with cancer, their families and carers through the use of advanced clinical reasoning.
- Developing and implementing individual specialised therapeutic rehabilitation programmes specific to patient’s needs based on activity analysis using a client-centred, problem-solving approach.
- Liaising with multi professional team within the hospital and community, to achieve optimum rehabilitation outcomes and planned coordinated packages of support across health and social care.
- Taking a key role in organising and facilitating discharge planning case conferences where functional independent is paramount.
Person specification
Education/Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Diploma/Degree in Occupational Therapy recognised by UK College of Occupational Therapists.
- State Registration with Health Care Professions Council for Occupational Therapy.
Experience
Essential criteria
- At least one year’s experience in general physical field.
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of experience of dealing with oncology patients and their families / carers.
- Evidence of experience in clinical supervision and appraisal.
- Evidence of experience of principles and practice in audit, outcomes measurement and clinical governance.
Education
Desirable criteria
- Accredited wheelchair course
- Accredited splinting and hand therapy course.
- Membership of British Association of Occupational Therapists.
- Membership of OPC (Occupational Therapists specialist section in Oncology and Palliative Care)
Skills Abilities/knowledge
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of functional assessment and treatment techniques for oncology and palliative care patients, including physical, cognitive, psychosocial functional assessments and treatment, as well as specific symptom and lifestyle management techniques (e.g. relaxation, anxiety, breathlessness and fatigue management)
- Ability to carry out risk assessments concerning patients and staff safety, including Manual Handling.
- Ability to assess risks associated with lone working, take responsibility for reporting to colleagues and ensuring self and patient are safe at all times.
- Ability to assess potential risks with regard to patients’ discharge from hospital.
- Developed clinical reasoning as well as analytical and creative problems solving skills.
- Excellent interpersonal and negotiation skills as required in an oncology and palliative care setting
- Ability to deal with imparting bad news
- Ability to reflect on clinical practice.
- Ability to work as part of a supportive team.
- Ability to work in a highly motivated, self directed manner on clinical and departmental activities.
- Ability to prioritise and manage time effectively
- Ability to fulfill supervisory role for undergraduate students.
- Ability to teach both patients and carers in areas relating to rehabilitation.
- Proven ability to prepare and deliver presentations and education sessions to health care colleagues and members of public.
- Ability to enter data, prepare reports, formal written documentation and multi-media presentations
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Lauren Blackburn
- Job title
- Lead Occupational Therapist
- Email address
- [email protected]
If you have problems applying, contact
- Address
-
Recruitment Support Team
- Telephone
- 01629 690825
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