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An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 7 Occupational Therapist to join our Acute Respiratory, Critical Care and Surgical (ARCCS) team.

This post requires a skilled and experienced inpatient Occupational Therapist who is looking for an opportunity to specialise in Acute Respiratory whilst being a part of ARCCS team.

You will be working within a team of Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists and Therapy Assistants who pride themselves in providing high quality care to the Respiratory, Critical Care, Surgical and Vascular wards.

Respiratory specialties that you will encounter include COPD, Bronchiectasis, Interstitial Lung Disease, NIV, Tracheostomies, Neuromuscular Conditions. In addition to this, you may be required to provide relief cover and support to surgical and vascular wards.

The successful candidate will be responsible for a personal clinical caseload of complex patients and to provide clinical support and supervision to the wider integrated team of Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists and therapy Assistants, as indicated.

Our service is based across two hospital sites, King George Hospital (KGH) and Queens Hospital (QH), therefore you should have the flexibility to work cross-site as required. In addition, you will actively participate in the rota to provide a 7-day service across both sites, as part of our CORE Integrated Therapy team.

Prif ddyletswyddau'r swydd

Provide specialist assessment, treatment and advice to patients within your area of specialty, using a holistic approach, thereby facilitating and maximising patient potential within the service boundaries.

To provide specialist guidance to other members of the MDT on matters relating to your specialist area. 

Provide leadership for the Occupational Therapy team, in conjunction with the Therapy leads and Clinical Specialist, in planning, coordinating, delivering and evaluating the Occupational Therapy service provided to patients within your specialist area on a day-to-day basis. 

To provide a lead role in teaching and supporting colleagues in matters relating to specialist area. 

To participate in the training of undergraduate Occupational Therapists 

To deputise in the absence of senior colleagues, as required, both within management and clinical areas 

See Job Description for full details.

Gweithio i'n sefydliad

We’re an organisation that is getting better and better. We were the most improved Trust in England for A&E performance in 2023/24; we’re no longer in special measures; and Matthew Trainer, our Chief Executive, has been named the top CEO by the Health Service Journal. Our improvements are driven by a determination to deliver care we’re proud of and that our patients are happy with.

Many of our 8,000 staff – who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and the majority are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. More than 400 of them are on apprenticeship programmes and we’re proud to be a London Living Wage employer.

We operate from two main sites - King George Hospital (KGH) in Goodmayes and Queen’s Hospital in Romford. We have two of the busiest emergency departments in London – more than 300,000 people visited our A&Es in 2023.

Patients across north east London are benefitting from two new state of the art theatres at KGH and our Community Diagnostic Centres at Barking Community Hospital and St George’s Health and Wellbeing Hub will significantly increase the number of scans that can be carried out.

We’re looking forward to introducing an electronic patient record next year. This will mean the records of any patient visiting one of the seven hospitals run by BHRUT and Barts Health will be accessible to the clinical teams. It’ll make things easier for staff and will be better for patients.