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Home, community, hospital

Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust offers a range of fantastic opportunities to grow your career across both hospital and community settings in south London. Whether you're looking to build new skills or take your experience to the next level, we are uniquely placed to provide the right environment to support your professional development. With colleagues working in people’s homes, in community clinics, and in our two hospitals, we have an outstanding breadth of knowledge and experience to draw from.

Our commitment to exceptional care is reflected in being the first trust of our kind in London to achieve an ‘Outstanding’ rating from the CQC for both overall quality and leadership. We exist to provide the best possible care for our patients and we do that by giving our colleagues what they need to be their best at work. We have won numerous awards from the HSJ and Nursing Times for the way we support our colleagues across all our services.

We are proud to be recognised for our outstanding cancer care, children's services, pioneering surgical teams, and exceptional rehabilitation services. Our maternity services have been rated the "Best in London" by women surveyed by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), with parents travelling to Kingston to take advantage of our considerable experience and expertise.

Our Trust values

These words are important reminders, but it’s our behaviours that tell people who we are. We expect all colleagues to bring our values to life in their work.

Job overview

A fantastic band 6 OT rotation opportunity to work across place in Kingston and Richmond  which will  enable you to develop and integrate your OT skills and knowledge in  social services, community and acute settings

We are committed to close partnership working across place HRCH, Kingston Hospital Foundation Trust and Richmond and Wandsworth Adult Social services to provide excellence in patient care across our organisational boundaries.   This Rotational Band 6 Occupational Therapy Post aims to provide employment opportunities to enhance understanding and collaborative working.

Rotations will be in the following 3 areas, spanning 9 months each:

• Care of the Elderly, based at Kingston hospital.
• Richmond Response and Rehab team, based at Teddington Memorial Hospital
• Long Term Complex Care Team, Richmond and Wandsworth Adult Social Service based in Twickenham.

The organisations offer excellent opportunities for continuing professional development and are committed to clinical excellence and audit.

Within each rotation you will have opportunity to:

• complete quality improvement project
• training on equipment, adaptations, seating, moving and handling, assessment and intervention for complex comorbidities and long term conditions.
• Participate in in service training and peer support.

Main duties of the job

Applicants are expected to work  autonomously and as part of  the wider MDT.

Main duties may include but are not exhaustive of managing own caseload, liaising with MDT, moving and handling assessments and patient centred goal setting. You will be working closely with patients, family members, carers and acute/ community partners to deliver individualised treatment programmes. You will also be facilitating clinical supervision, student development and service improvement initiatives including audits, pathway developments and service promotion.

• Care of the Elderly, Kingston Hospital-Providing occupational therapy assessments and interventions to a wide variety of patients in liaison with the multidisciplinary team in care of the elderly inpatient clinical setting. Mon- Fri 8-4 with some weekend working
• Richmond Response and Rehab team- working with patients in community setting to prevent admission/facilitate discharge from hospital and working in the community to maximise functioning to enable them to remain at home. This involves assessment, patient centred goal setting and case co-ordination. Working pattern across Mon – Sun 8am to 8pm.
• Long Term Complex Care Team -specialist assessment and intervention planning for provision of adaptive and rehabilitative therapeutic approaches to maximise functional independence in ADLs within homes of patients with complex disability needs including prescription of specialist disability equipment and minor and major adaptations.

Working for our organisation

Community healthcare is unlike any other part of the NHS. It’s personalised care that helps people to retain their independence. It’s the NHS at its best and the difference you make is truly tangible.

Our colleagues often describe us as a family, and we know how important that sense of belonging and support is when you start a new job. It’s simple - happy, engaged staff provide better services. In 2018, we were named ‘Best Place to Work for Employee Satisfaction’ by the Nursing Times. The same year, we won the Workforce category at the HSJ Awards. In the latest NHS Staff Survey results 2020, we had the best response rate amongst community trusts nationally.

We are the top community trust in the country on the theme Quality of care for the third year. We had the highest percentage of staff who felt they are able to deliver the care they aspire to and are satisfied with the quality of care they give to patients or service users. 

Infection Control

As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination uptake as this remains the best line of defence against COVID19.