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.

Job overview

A fantastic band 6 OT rotation opportunity to work across place in Kingston Hospital  which will  enable you to develop and integrate your OT skills and knowledge within a variety of different rotations

 This Rotational Band 6 Occupational Therapy Post aims to provide employment opportunities to enhance understanding and collaborative working. Rotations will be across COE, Orthopaedics, Frailty ED,  Surgery and Speciality Medicine 

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.

Main duties of the job

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.

 You will be expected to provide occupational therapy assessments and interventions to a wide variety of patients in liaison with the multidisciplinary team within the rotation clinical setting you are working within. Service provision is between Mon- Fri 8-4/ 8:30-4:30 with some weekend working

Working for our organisation

The Trust has defined its culture as one that is patient centred and which puts safety first and where all staff members take responsibility, are valued and value each other.

To support this, our five values are that we are all:

Caring – we design and deliver care around each individual patient’s needs and wants.

Safe – we make the safety of patients and staff our prime concern (safety comes first).

Responsible – all staff take responsibility for the hospital, its services and reputation.

Inspiring – we always strive to empower each other to develop and deliver improvements to benefit our patients.

Value each other – we all value each other’s contribution.

Our training, policies, procedures, and practices are all intended to support behaviours in line with our values and all staff are expected to uphold these by Living Our Values Every day.