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Clinical Specialist Cardio-Respiratory Occupational Therapist
Accepting applications until: 05-Aug-2025 23:59
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 05-Aug-2025 23:59
Key details
Location
- Site
- Royal Brompton Hospital
- Address
- Sydney Street
- Town
- London
- Postcode
- SW3 6NP
- Major / Minor Region
- London
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Salary
- Salary
- £64,156 - £71,148 per annum incl. HCA
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (NHS AfC: Band 8a)
Specialty
- Main area
- Cardio-respiratory Occupational therapist
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
A fabulous opportunity to work as a clinical specialist cardio-respiratory OT at The Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals. This post will include inpatient rehab with ECMO and VADs, Critical Care, Stroke patients, Cardiothoracic surgery and Respiratory Medicine and will work closely with other Allied Health Professionals within a multi-disciplinary team model. The post holder will need excellent communication and leadership skills.
As part of Guys and St Thomas Trust, we care about our staff. We offer:
- a free shuttle bus between hospital sites
- 10 days of study leave a year,
- excellent opportunities in research and quality improvement
- a comprehensive health and well-being service.
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- Responsible for the management of a specialist Occupational Therapy service in conjunction with the Therapy Lead in their specialist area and contributes to/leads departmental management and Trust initiatives in strategic planning and development of a specialist Occupational therapist service across the whole organisation.
- Uses expert clinical reasoning skills to provide highly specialist support and advice to the occupational therapy team and other medical staff, whilst maintaining a clinical caseload of highly complex patients
- Professional and clinical Leadership in the development and implementation of a comprehensive training and personal development plan for all designated occupational therapy staff and, in conjunction with the management team, strives to ensure excellence of training across the whole organisation.
- Supports the Therapy Lead in a specialist area to identify and implement clinical research, audit and data collection priorities within the area of own expertise to inform departmental clinical development strategy.
- Responsible for maintaining and improving all aspects of clinical governance, evidence based practice and quality assurance in designated area.
- To play a major role in the continuous development of the service as a member of the Occupational Therapy team and as a potential member of a range of Trust quality/process improvement project groups.
Working for our organisation
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK’s best known hospitals – Guy’s, St Thomas’, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation.
We have a long tradition of clinical and scientific achievement and – as part of King’s Health Partners – we are one of England’s eight academic health sciences centres, bringing together world-class clinical services, teaching and research. We have one of the National Institute for Health Research’s biomedical research centres, established with King’s College London in 2007, as well as dedicated clinical research facilities.
Royal Brompton and Harefield hospitals joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ in February 2021 and is the largest specialist heart and lung centre in the UK and among the largest in Europe. We provide treatment for people with heart and lung disease, including rare and complex conditions, offering some of the most sophisticated treatment that is available anywhere in the world.
Our integrated approach to caring for patients from before birth, through childhood, adolescence and into adulthood and old age has been replicated around the world and has gained Royal Brompton and Harefield an international reputation as a leader in heart and lung diagnosis, treatment and research.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Professional/ Clinical Responsibilities
- To be professionally and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of the practitioner’s professional activities.
- To carry out assessment, analysis and formulation of best care programmes for a wide range of patients as an expert autonomous practitioner, including those with highly complex presentations and to use clinical reasoning skills, knowledge of evidence based practice and advanced rehabilitation expertise to determine appropriate care plan utilising highly specialist treatment skills and options.
- To be responsible and accountable for own and department patient care plans, including discharge planning, and to provide consultation as an expert on physiotherapy within the specialist area with advice and guidance for junior and senior team members and other health care professionals both within and outside the Trust.
- To co-ordinate intervention which may include other disciplines; advise and educate patient/carers/relatives/other health professionals
- To manage clinical risk within own caseload at all times and ensure clinical risk is effectively managed across the specialist Occupational Therapy service
- To demonstrate physical ability to carry out Occupational Therapy assessment and interventions including manual therapy techniques and therapeutic handling.
- To demonstrate highly developed dexterity, co-ordination and palpatory sensory skills for assessment and manual treatment of patients.
- To be highly competent in assessing and managing a wide range of conditions within their own specialist area based on advanced theoretical knowledge of anatomy, physiology and pathology, often in situations where conflicting evidence is present.
- Able to interpret and analyse clinical and non-clinical facts, which may be conflicting, to form accurate diagnoses in the most highly complex types of conditions for patients in the designated area.
- To use advanced theoretical and practical knowledge to refer to other health disciplines as appropriate and to ensure appropriate referral systems are used by departmental and other health professional staff.
- To provide expert Occupational Therapy input to the development of both Trust and National level initiatives within own specialist area.
- To develop collaborative treatment plans with patents, carers and colleagues both in the hospital and patient’s home environment, demonstrating ethical clinical reasoning and problem solving techniques to determine agreed outcomes across health and social care.
- To ensure safety for self and others during all occupational therapy interventions in hospital, on home visits and appropriate environments.
- Liaise with Social Services, District nursing teams and community therapy teams to ensure rehabilitation packages and equipment are in place.
- Work alongside MDT colleagues and other rehab and therapies services to ensure services are delivered at a high and consistent quality
- To maintain high professional standards, continuously promoting and developing quality improvements appropriate to the needs of the Occupational Therapy Service and profession.
- To understand and apply national guidelines and legislation relating to health and social care in Occupational Therapy practice.
Please see job description for full job description.
Applicant requirements
Person specification
Skills and ability
Essential criteria
- therapy leadership skills
- ability to communicate well in highly sensitive, emotional matters
Desirable criteria
- Advanced specialist Occupational Therapy skills that may constitute extended scope
Previous experience
Essential criteria
- Significant Band 7 level experience
- Occupational therapy management of ECMO patients
- Experience in occupational Therapy team management
- Experience in leading service development
Desirable criteria
- Previous experience working in a Clinical Specialist role
- Evidence of published data in recognised journals
Qualifications/ Education
Essential criteria
- Degree in Occupational Therapy
- Post graduate Occupational Therapy qualification in appropriate area of specialty
- Full membership of a relevant Occupational Therapy SIG
Desirable criteria
- MSc
- Membership of other relevant Special Interest Group
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Trudi Scott
- Job title
- Heart Therapy Team Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
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