Description
We are recruiting for a Band 7 Team Lead Occupational Therapist to join our Inpatient Paediatric Therapy Team. The post holder will have joint responsibility for the therapy team with the Team Lead Physiotherapist and will carry a clinical caseload. The team provide advanced assessment and treatment of patients aged 0 - 24 within General Paediatrics, Paediatric Oncology, Radiotherapy and the Teenage Cancer Trust unit.
The successful candidate will be welcomed into the UCLH Paediatric & Teenage Cancer Therapy Service and the wider Cancer Therapies Team. You will have the chance to develop expertise in paediatric, teenage and young adult cancer care alongside nurturing your highly specialist occupational therapy skills as well as the opportunity to build clinical leadership skills.
Main duties of the job
- Provide high quality occupational therapy assessments and treatments independently managing a caseload of patients and ensuring an excellent standard of clinical care.
- Provide expert advice, guidance, and information to patients, carers, schools and other health care professionals.
- Work with patients and families to agree the best course of occupational therapy management and to develop patient centred discharge plans in conjunction with the MDT.
- Facilitate effective and timely management of patients at various stages of the cancer trajectory.
- Understand and apply national guidelines and legislation relating to health and social care, occupational therapy practice and the care of paediatric patients.
- Work with the MDT to incorporate and contribute to the evidence base for this clinical specialty.
- Be jointly responsible for co-ordination, delivery, evaluation, and development of the Inpatient Paediatric Therapy Team at UCLH, with the Team Lead Physiotherapist.
- Ensure effective induction, supervision/appraisal and training of qualified and non-qualified (support staff and students) within the Inpatient Paediatric Therapy Team.
- Maintain high professional standards, continuously promoting and developing the occupational therapy profession.
- Be responsible for your own professional development.
Benefits
- Competitive salary: £58,133 to £65,261 per annum
- Opportunity to develop expertise in paediatric, teenage and young adult cancer care
- Chance to build clinical leadership skills
- Supportive environment for professional development
Person Specification
- Degree or Diploma in occupational therapy
- State registered Occupational Therapist (HCPC)
- Evidence of relevant post-graduate courses and CPD
- Good written and spoken English
- Significant experience as an Occupational Therapist at Band 6 level or above
- Post-graduate experience working as a paediatric Occupational Therapist at band 6 level or above
- Highly specialist knowledge and experience of a wide range of approaches to the management of complex occupational therapy needs