Highly Specialist Paediatric Occupational Therapist
Closed for applications on: 13-Mar-2025 00:00
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 13-Mar-2025 00:00
Key details
Location
- Site
- Royal Brompton Hospital
- Address
- Royal Brompton Hospital
- Town
- London
- Postcode
- SW3 6NP
- Major / Minor Region
- London
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (Part time)
- Hours
- Part time - 30 hours per week
Salary
- Salary
- £54,320 - £60,981 p.a. inc. HCA (pro rata)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (NHS AfC: Band 7)
Specialty
- Main area
- Occupational Therapy
Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.
Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.
Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions.
Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.
In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.
We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.
Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.
The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.
We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.
Job overview
Are you a highly motivated individual with experience of working with children and families who would like to gain experience working at the Royal Brompton Hospital? We are looking for a Band 7 Occupational Therapist (OT) to join our neurodevelopmental therapy and rehab team. This role is a 12 month 0.8 WTE fixed term post based at the Royal Brompton Hospital.
Occupational therapy can help babies, children and young people learn and play, so that they can develop, and reach their full potential and adapt to life with complex medical conditions. Occupational therapy enables them and their families to participate in daily life to improve their health and wellbeing.
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Your role will involve working on the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU), High Dependency Unit (HDU), and ward environments, assessing infant and child development and occupational performance, working in collaboration with families to set goals and provide individualised advice and early intervention as required. You will provide neuro-developmental surveillance to these high-risk infants and refer to community services to ensure children meet their developmental potential.
Your role will involve working as an autonomous practitioner closely with the multidisciplinary inpatient teams. It may also require working across our hospital sites at the Evelina London Children's Hospital. You will receive individual supervision from one of the senior therapists within the paediatric occupational therapy team at Evelina London, and be further supported by the clinical lead paediatric OT and professionally managed by the trust's Occupational Therapy Lead.
The successful applicant will possess excellent verbal and written communication skills, as liaison with the multi-disciplinary team and with our community colleagues in health, education, and social services, is essential.
Working for our organisation
We are a friendly, welcoming and supportive team, offering a culture of ongoing professional development and learning. Alongside a focus on clinical excellence, ongoing improvement and innovation, our team wellbeing is also prioritised with regular opportunities to participate in social activities, team events and reflective practice. We offer opportunities to participate in departmental audits, service improvement projects or research projects. We have a monthly professional development programme for all staff.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The key responsibilities of this post is to provide a high-quality Occupational Therapy Service to a specialist caseload of children and infants in inpatient services: Paediatric Intensive Care, High Dependency and the ward as outlined below. Please refer to the attached job description for full details.
- To provide highly specialist neurodevelopmental assessments and interventions to paediatric cardiac and respiratory patients within the paediatric intensive care, high dependency, and ward environments. The post holder will also provide a service to the paediatric ward and to scope the requirement for further Neurodevelopmental Therapy service provision to this environment.
- To support and advise colleagues within the hospital and community in the management of complex cases requiring advanced clinical reasoning.
- To lead and advise on clinical Occupational Therapy developments, audit and research within Children’s Services and related Trust wide projects.
- To be responsible for maintaining awareness of current evidence base to assess, treat, implement, evaluate and document Occupational Therapy interventions.
- To be responsible for the maintenance and development of own CPD identifying and contributing to the evidence base of Occupational Therapy.
- To mentor and clinically supervise therapy assistants regularly, ensuring that their yearly appraisals are conducted and reviewed 6 monthly in accordance with Trust policy.
- To support the management of the Occupational Therapy Service as required by the Heads of Service.
Applicant requirements
Person specification
Knowledge/Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Diploma or Degree in Occupational Therapy
- HCPC Registration
- Masters level or equivalent training in specialist area or evidence of significant practical experience, research or publication in specialist area.
Desirable criteria
- Member of professional bodies - RCOT
- Member of relevant specialist interest groups, forums or networks
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience commensurate with a highly specialist paediatric occupational therapist role.
- Evidence of continuing professional development and post registration education and training.
- Ability to supervise junior staff and students.
- High standard of performance in general paediatric skills.
- Experience of Audit or quality improvement
Desirable criteria
- Experience of research
- Experience of working with children with complex neurological conditions
- Experience of working with children with disorders of posture and movement
- Experience of working HDU or PICU settings
Skills
Essential criteria
- Specialist knowledge, understanding and application to OT process relating to client centred practice in paediatrics
- Specialist knowledge, application and analysis of standardised and non-standardise assessment
- Ability to work autonomously, acting decisively on behalf of self and others
- Experience of working within multi-disciplinary team
- Ability to promote clinical excellence in self and others
- Ability to demonstrate clinical leadership
- Proven experience in training, teaching and supervision of others
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of common paediatric neurological and cardiac conditions
- Knowledge of developmental care approach and interventions
- Experience of upper limb assessment and management
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- Ability to work flexibly and adapt approaches in response to clinical needs and priorities
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to manage conflict positively
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Kerry Engelbrecht
- Job title
- Highly Specialist Paed' Occupational Therapist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 020 7351 8369
- Additional information
Additional contact: For further information or an informal discussion, please contact Natasha Wilkinson (Clinical Specialist Paediatric Respiratory Physiotherapist/ PICU) [email protected] on 020 7351 8369.
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