Description
This exciting Rotational Band 7 Occupational Therapist post is a chance to work within our highly specialist teams within Queen's Hospital Hyper-Acute Stroke unit and our Regional Neurosciences Centre.
You will have opportunity to use high level clinical skills across the Stroke pathway on various sites: Hyper-acute stroke unit (HASU), Acute Stroke unit (ASU), Rehabilitation ward and our Early Supported Discharge (ESD) community service.
Within Neurosciences you will experience a wide range of elective and acute conditions across our wards, including; acquired brain injury, TBI, neuro-oncology, acute neurology, spinal trauma and spinal cord injury.
You will be delivering clinical care, providing team support and helping to develop the service across acute wards, critical care, elective and community pathways across our sites.
Queen's is a busy hospital situated on the fringes of London with access also into the countryside of Essex.
You will be part of a friendly and hard working integrated therapy team within a wider multidisciplinary team.
If you want a rewarding opportunity where you will be encouraged to influence and develop whilst being valued and supported, then apply today.
There will be consideration of a Band 6-to-7 Development post for applicants displaying the appropriate levels of skills and knowledge.
Main duties of the job
- Contribute to the development, implementation and monitoring of the provision of services to clients with a diagnosis of stroke and neurological conditions.
- Provide specialist assessment, treatment and advice to patients within your area of speciality, facilitating and maximising patient potential within service boundaries.
- Give highly specialist guidance and advice to other members of the Multidisciplinary Team (MDT) on matters relating to your specialist area.
- Plan, co-ordinate and evaluate the Occupational Therapy service provided to patients within the acute stroke unit/ Neurosciences, on a day-to-day basis.
- Negotiate and enable changes in the patient's quality of life, by developing their transition between roles and optimising purposeful, meaningful activity.
Benefits
- Competitive salary: £55,524 to £62,652 per annum
- Agenda for Change pay scheme
- Permanent, full-time position