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Job Summary

Hourly Rate (inclusive of annual leave): £36.31
 

What are we looking for?

Cleveland Clinic London are looking to a recruit a Highly Specialist Occupational Therapist to join our Bank Team, with a competitive pay rate.

This is a Bank role with the following shift patterns:
Monday to Friday: 8:00 – 16:00 or 10:00 – 18:00
 

As an autonomous practitioner within a multidisciplinary team, the Bank Highly Specialist Rehab Occupational Therapist will assess, treat and manage their own caseload and provide highly specialist occupational therapy in their specific area. This role will report directly to the Clinical Lead Occupational Therapist and be part of a highly innovative, evidence based, forward thinking therapy team.

What makes us different?

Cleveland Clinic London offers a brand-new high-acuity environment with the very latest equipment, where caregivers are encouraged to grow their expertise across multiple specialties, and in collaboration with expert clinicians. Our Mission, ‘Caring for life, researching for health, and educating those who serve’, assures our unwavering commitment to professional development.   

Cleveland Clinic London won ‘Hospital of the Year’ at the 2023 Laing Buisson awards!

What will your duties include?

• Supporting the weekday service, Monday-Friday (either 8am-4pm or 10am-6pm)
• Assist in operational management and deliver occupational therapy with advanced assessment, management and clinical reasoning to patients, including linking in with the wider MDT
• Provide and act as a source of clinical expertise in the occupational therapy management of patients to MDT, deputising for occupational leads as required.
• Educate and train occupational therapists and other MDT members with innovation and passion.
• Take a proactive lead in using routine outcome measures to improve patient care.
• Provide highly supportive supervision and coaching to other therapists.
• Keep informed of evidence, changes to practice, relevant research and guidance to discuss at regular opportunities to progress and develop own / MDT practice.
• Be professionally and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of own work, ensuring a high standard of care and actively encourages and motivates others to do the same.
• Identify areas of research and quality improvement priorities in occupational therapy in your specific area to add to wider occupational therapy development strategies.
• Assist in identification, mitigation and management of risks as part of clinical governance.

  What we need from you?

• Degree in Occupational Therapy
• Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) registered.
• A minimum of 24 months acute hospital experience working as a Occupational Therapist at a senior level in one of the inpatient specialities including Orthopaedics, Neurological and general surgical specialities is essential.
• Effective and adaptable communication using a variety of verbal and written techniques to the needs of the patient, family, carer and wider MDT
• Ability to prioritise, delegate, organise and work effectively to a deadline
• Evidence of training / experience in appraisal, supervision of therapists/students
• Specialist knowledge and experience in application of clinically reasoned, safe and evidenced based techniques, assessments, management plans and outcome measures in relevant clinical area of neurological occupational therapy. 

What can we offer you?

As a private hospital with no shareholders, we reinvest profits back into our organisation. This means we can offer tailored support and development for caregivers, alongside benefits such as:

• Auto-Enrolment of 5% pension - Cleveland Clinic contributes 10% through Salary Exchange
• Priority shifts over agency workers
• On-site discounted gym facilities
• Weekly pay
• Victoria card giving you discounts to local venues and restaurants.

Who we are?

Cleveland Clinic is one of the leading providers of specialised medical care in the world, providing clinical excellence and superior patient outcomes for almost 6 million patient visits per year across more than 200 locations. We employ over 80,000 caregivers worldwide and continue to drive innovation in healthcare.

  With over 100 years of history, our “Patients First” philosophy is at the heart of everything that we do.

If you would like to know more, please email [email protected].

‎ Due to the volume of applications we are not always able to provide individual feedback.

Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Check

This role may be subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order (as amended) and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

“Let’s deliver World Class care together!”

As an equal opportunities employer, we aspire to work together to promote a more inclusive work environment, which represents our commitment to celebrate diversity.

CCL is committed to applying its Equal Employment Opportunity/Workforce Diversity and Inclusion Policy  at all stages of recruitment and privileging. Shortlisting, interviewing and selection will always be carried out without regard to any Protected Characteristics. When aware of the need to do so and when required, CCL will make reasonable adjustments to its arrangements for interviews and to conditions of employment/engagement for disabled applicants to ensure, so far as practicable, that they do not place such applicants at a substantial disadvantage in comparison to non-disabled applicants.