# Senior Occupational Therapist for Orthopaedics

**Company**: Barts Health NHS Trust
**Location**: London
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Salary**: £53751.00 to £60651.00
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are seeking a confident Band 7 Occupational Therapist with strong leadership skills and a broad T&O background to lead our dedicated therapy team at Whipps Cross Hospital, a Centre of Excellence in Frailty and the centre for NOF fractures for Barts Health.

The successful candidate will lead a skilled team delivering specialist assessments and interventions across complex T&O and rehabilitation caseloads. You will work within a multidisciplinary team and champion best practice in orthopaedic care alongside your colleagues.

Key responsibilities include:

- Playing a major and specialist role in the advanced assessment, treatment, clinical management and discharge planning of patients admitted to the orthopaedic wards

- Determining clinical diagnosis, functional deficits, treatment programs and discharge planning

- Working within a multidisciplinary team and championing best practice in orthopaedic care

Requirements:

- Extensive post registration experience working in an acute hospital setting in the NHS or similar health service in orthopaedics

- Highly developed acute skills with post registration experience in relevant specialties including orthopaedics and frailty

- Experience and confidence working within a high pressured and fast paced environment

- Experience supervising and appraising staff and students

- Good knowledge of current best practice in OT with specialist clinical skills in Orthopaedics

- In depth knowledge of national policies and procedures relevant to client group (#NOF and poly trauma)

- Ability to take a proactive approach to assessment and discharge planning

- Ability to pass on knowledge & deliver training both internally within profession & externally to other staff groups

Benefits:

- Competitive salary: £53,751 to £60,651 per annum

- Permanent, full-time position

## Skills

### Required
- Orthopaedics
- Occupational Therapy
- Leadership
- Multidisciplinary team working
- Discharge planning

### Nice to have
- Transdisciplinary therapy assessment skills

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