# Occupational Therapist (Rotational)

**Company**: Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust
**Location**: Stanmore
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: entry
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: £36,943 to £44,900 a year
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are seeking two Band 5 Occupational Therapists to join our established Band 5 Occupational Therapy rotations. As an Occupational Therapist, you will work across various clinical teams, including Adult Orthopaedics, Pain Management and Rehabilitation, Sarcoma and Orthopaedic Oncology, Paediatric Orthopaedics, and the London Spinal Cord Injuries Centre.

Your main duties will involve managing a caseload of patients with complex physical and psychological needs, including those requiring specialist seating assessments. You will work with patients of all ages, from children to elderly individuals.

The post will benefit from a multi-professional structure of clinical specialists, peer support, and supervision, providing excellent opportunities to develop your professional portfolio.

As the post holder, you will be based at Stanmore and required to work on a weekend rota as part of the Therapy 7-day service.

The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust is rated 'good' by the CQC and covers two sites, one in central London and one in Stanmore, which has recently opened The Stanmore Building, a new, state-of-the-art inpatient facility.

**Responsibilities:**

- Carry a caseload of patients with complex physical and psychological needs

- Conduct specialist seating assessments

- Work with patients of all ages

- Provide cover for administrative and clinical tasks in the temporary absence of another team member

- Supervise other members of staff and students as allocated

**Requirements:**

- DipCOT/Degree in Occupational Therapy

- Member of COT or recognised equivalent

- Registered with HPC

- 6 months experience as Therapy/Rehabilitation Technician or Equivalent relevant experience in any other clinical setting as OT student

- Broad knowledge of current best practice in OT and medical conditions associated with the clinical area

- Good written and verbal communication skills

- Ability to communicate with a variety of people, occasionally in emotional distress

- Sound clinical reasoning and reflective skills

- Good organisation of self and time

- Ability to reflect and appraise own performance

- Ability to self-motivate and initiate activity

- Computer literacy, including use of Microsoft Office, email, and other web-based systems

## Skills

### Required
- Occupational Therapy
- DipCOT/Degree in Occupational Therapy
- Microsoft Office
- Communication skills
- Clinical reasoning
- Reflective skills
- Organisation
- Time management
- Self-motivation

### Nice to have
- 6 months NHS experience as Band 5 OT
- Interest in and further study in clinical area
- Knowledge of neurological and biomechanical treatment approaches for complex disability
- Awareness of some specialist equipment relevant to the post
- RCOT Specialist Section/other Special Interest Group membership
- Clinical supervisor's course

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