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Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust
About
Home, community, hospital
Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust offers a range of fantastic opportunities to grow your career across both hospital and community settings in south London. Whether you're looking to build new skills or take your experience to the next level, we are uniquely placed to provide the right environment to support your professional development. With colleagues working in people’s homes, in community clinics, and in our two hospitals, we have an outstanding breadth of knowledge and experience to draw from.
Our commitment to exceptional care is reflected in being the first trust of our kind in London to achieve an ‘Outstanding’ rating from the CQC for both overall quality and leadership. We exist to provide the best possible care for our patients and we do that by giving our colleagues what they need to be their best at work. We have won numerous awards from the HSJ and Nursing Times for the way we support our colleagues across all our services.
We are proud to be recognised for our outstanding cancer care, children's services, pioneering surgical teams, and exceptional rehabilitation services. Our maternity services have been rated the "Best in London" by women surveyed by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), with parents travelling to Kingston to take advantage of our considerable experience and expertise.
Our Trust values
These words are important reminders, but it’s our behaviours that tell people who we are. We expect all colleagues to bring our values to life in their work.
- Compassionate: We provide care with kindness, understanding, and empathy for all.
- Inclusive: We embrace diversity and respect the unique contributions of every individual.
- Collaborative: We foster teamwork across all levels, working together and with our partners to deliver the best outcomes.
- Inspiring: We are committed to continuous improvement and excellence in patient care, staff development, and innovation.
Band 6 Rotational Occupational Therapist
Accepting applications until: 24-Nov-2024 23:59
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 24-Nov-2024 23:59
Key details
Location
- Gwefan
- Across place Kingston and Richmond
- Tref
- Kingston/ Richmond
- Cod post
- TW11 0JL
- Major / Minor Region
- London
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent: Additional weekend working will be expected -1 in every 6 weekend day.
- Oriau
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Salary
- Cyflog
- £42,939 - £50,697 p.a. pro rata inclusive of HCAS (Outer)
- Cyfnod cyflog
- Yearly
- Gradd
- (Band 6)
Specialty
- Prif leoliad
- Occupational Therapy
Home, community, hospital
Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust offers a range of fantastic opportunities to grow your career across both hospital and community settings in south London. Whether you're looking to build new skills or take your experience to the next level, we are uniquely placed to provide the right environment to support your professional development. With colleagues working in people’s homes, in community clinics, and in our two hospitals, we have an outstanding breadth of knowledge and experience to draw from.
Our commitment to exceptional care is reflected in being the first trust of our kind in London to achieve an ‘Outstanding’ rating from the CQC for both overall quality and leadership. We exist to provide the best possible care for our patients and we do that by giving our colleagues what they need to be their best at work. We have won numerous awards from the HSJ and Nursing Times for the way we support our colleagues across all our services.
We are proud to be recognised for our outstanding cancer care, children's services, pioneering surgical teams, and exceptional rehabilitation services. Our maternity services have been rated the "Best in London" by women surveyed by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), with parents travelling to Kingston to take advantage of our considerable experience and expertise.
Our Trust values
These words are important reminders, but it’s our behaviours that tell people who we are. We expect all colleagues to bring our values to life in their work.
- Compassionate: We provide care with kindness, understanding, and empathy for all.
- Inclusive: We embrace diversity and respect the unique contributions of every individual.
- Collaborative: We foster teamwork across all levels, working together and with our partners to deliver the best outcomes.
- Inspiring: We are committed to continuous improvement and excellence in patient care, staff development, and innovation.
Trosolwg o'r swydd
A fantastic band 6 OT rotation opportunity to work across place in Kingston and Richmond which will enable you to develop and integrate your OT skills and knowledge in social services, community and acute settings
We are committed to close partnership working across place HRCH, Kingston Hospital Foundation Trust and Richmond and Wandsworth Adult Social services to provide excellence in patient care across our organisational boundaries. This Rotational Band 6 Occupational Therapy Post aims to provide employment opportunities to enhance understanding and collaborative working.
Rotations will be in the following 3 areas, spanning 9 months each:
- Care of the Elderly, based at Kingston hospital.
- Richmond Response and Rehab team, based at Teddington Memorial Hospital
- Long Term Complex Care Team, Richmond and Wandsworth Adult Social Service based in Twickenham.
The organisations offer excellent opportunities for continuing professional development and are committed to clinical excellence and audit.
Within each rotation you will have opportunity to:
- complete quality improvement project
- training on equipment, adaptations, seating, moving and handling, assessment and intervention for complex comorbidities and long term conditions.
- Participate in in service training and peer support.
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Applicants are expected to work autonomously and as part of the wider MDT.
Main duties may include but are not exhaustive of managing own caseload, liaising with MDT, moving and handling assessments and patient centred goal setting. You will be working closely with patients, family members, carers and acute/ community partners to deliver individualised treatment programmes. You will also be facilitating clinical supervision, student development and service improvement initiatives including audits, pathway developments and service promotion.
- Care of the Elderly, Kingston Hospital-Providing occupational therapy assessments and interventions to a wide variety of patients in liaison with the multidisciplinary team in care of the elderly inpatient clinical setting. Mon- Fri 8-4 with some weekend working
- Richmond Response and Rehab team- working with patients in community setting to prevent admission/facilitate discharge from hospital and working in the community to maximise functioning to enable them to remain at home. This involves assessment, patient centred goal setting and case co-ordination. Working pattern across Mon – Sun 8am to 8pm.
- Long Term Complex Care Team -specialist assessment and intervention planning for provision of adaptive and rehabilitative therapeutic approaches to maximise functional independence in ADLs within homes of patients with complex disability needs including prescription of specialist disability equipment and minor and major adaptations.
Gweithio i'n sefydliad
Community healthcare is unlike any other part of the NHS. It’s personalised care that helps people to retain their independence. It’s the NHS at its best and the difference you make is truly tangible.
Our colleagues often describe us as a family, and we know how important that sense of belonging and support is when you start a new job. It’s simple - happy, engaged staff provide better services. In 2018, we were named ‘Best Place to Work for Employee Satisfaction’ by the Nursing Times. The same year, we won the Workforce category at the HSJ Awards. In the latest NHS Staff Survey results 2020, we had the best response rate amongst community trusts nationally.
We are the top community trust in the country on the theme Quality of care for the third year. We had the highest percentage of staff who felt they are able to deliver the care they aspire to and are satisfied with the quality of care they give to patients or service users.
Infection Control
As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination uptake as this remains the best line of defence against COVID19.
Swydd ddisgrifiad a phrif gyfrifoldebau manwl
*****Please see the attached supporting document which contains more information about the role*****
Your application: Please ensure your supporting statement aligns with the job description and person specification, as your application will be assessed against these criteria.
References: Please provide 3 years of employment/educational history with professional email addresses (not personal ones like Hotmail or Gmail). If you cannot supply these, inform the interviewers to avoid delays in pre-employment checks.
Closing date: To keep our recruitment process efficient, some vacancies may be capped and closed early once we receive a sufficient number of applications.
Shortlisting: You will only be contacted by email or SMS from the SWL Recruitment Hub if you are successfully shortlisted. Please check your registered Trac email regularly.
DBS: We are committed to safeguarding children and vulnerable adults at risk of harm. For roles involving direct access to these groups, an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check will be required. All employees, however, hold a responsibility to safeguard children and vulnerable adults as part of their duties and to understand the specific safeguarding responsibilities associated with their role.
Telephone: 02082963786
Text: 07501066267
Email: [email protected]. Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Person specification
Qualifications
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Degree/ diploma in OT and HCPC registered
Meini prawf dymunol
- Membership of relevant clinical interest groups
Experience
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Completed a minimum of two years qualified Occupational Therapy experience
- Post graduate experience that covers core skills in rehabilitation including therapeutic handling and management of people with complex conditions.
- Broad clinical experience including orthopaedics, general medicine, neurology and older adults
- Ability to contribute to clinical education of less experienced staff, students or assistants
Meini prawf dymunol
- Knowledge and experience of Home First/ Discharge to Assess pathway and occupational therapy as part of hospital discharge
Skills and Abilities
Meini prawf hanfodol
- To work as an autonomous practitioner and have the ability to organise, prioritise and delegate work
- Understanding of clinical governance and its implications
Personal Attributes
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Demonstrate a flexible, adaptable, client-centred, non-discriminatory approach
- Ability to reflect critically and appraise own performance
- Ability to work flexible hours including weekends
Further details / informal visits contact
- Enw
- Avneet Sahota
- Teitl y swydd
- Inpatient operational leads
- Cyfeiriad ebost
- [email protected]
- Rhif ffôn
- 020 8934 3450
- Gwybodaeth i gefnogi eich cais
Sarah Barden (Inpatient Occupational Therapy Lead), 020 8934 364, [email protected]
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