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Job summary

Main area
Therapies
Grade
Band 6
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
392-RNOH-789-A
Employer
Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital
Town
Stanmore, Middlesex
Salary
£40,701 - £48,054 per annum inclusive of HCAS
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
09/05/2024 23:59

Employer heading

Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust logo

Specialist Occupational Therapist- Adult Orthopaedics Team

Band 6

Please note in order to progress your application, your data will be processed by our 3rd party recruitment providers – North London Partners Shared Service, who conduct recruitment activities on behalf of Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust. 

The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust is the largest orthopaedic hospital in the UK and a global leader in our field.  We provide a dynamic working environment where we support frontline staff to implement improvements so that we can realise our vision of being a world leading neuro musculoskeletal hospital providing the best patient care and staff experience in the NHS, delivering world leading research, and offering a strong foundation of education, training and career progression. Our dedicated staff come from diverse backgrounds, and our patients benefit from the wide range of experience they bring to the Trust. The RNOH brings unrivalled expertise together in one place allowing us to deliver some of the world’s most complex and innovative care to our patients

  • Rated Good by the CQC
  • Two sites, one in central London and one in Stanmore - which has recently opened The Stanmore Building, a new, state-of-the-art inpatient facility
  • Our Research and Innovation Centre works closely with our main academic partner, University College London
  • Recognised as a centre of excellence,  leading on national initiatives, such as the Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) Programme
  • Further major redevelopment underway across the Stanmore site – improving and modernising our facilities to maintain our position as the UK’s leading centre for orthopaedic medicine
  • In the NHS staff survey, over 90% of our staff were satisfied with the quality of care they are able to give to patients - the best result of any NHS Trust in the country
  • Our staff also indicated that they had the best experience of appraisals as compared to all other NHS Trusts.

This is a great time to join us and play a critical role in the next stage of RNOH’s journey to achieving an outstanding CQC rating.

Our aim is to remain a world-leading orthopaedic hospital with the best patient care and staff experience in the NHS. To do this, we have four core values that underpin everything that we do. We use our values to help ensure that we are always focused on the things that our staff and patients believe are most important:

  • Patients first, always
  • Excellence, in all we do
  • Trust, honesty and respect, for each other
  • Equality, for all

Our annual staff survey results have been improving year on year, with our staff telling us that their experience of working at the Trust is getting better and better. They also indicate that our staff feel very loyal to the RNOH and committed to its role in providing the very best care to our complex patient group. We hope that we can welcome you to our growing team soon.

Job overview

Are you looking for a new challenge and would like to work in a national specialist hospital? If you have a passion for orthopaedics and physical rehabilitation and want put your practical problem solving skills to the test to work with a rewarding group of patients, then this is the job for you!

 

We have an exciting opportunity for you to join the Occupational Therapy department at Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital. This role is part of a well established adult orthopaedic team to providing tailored, individualised care to patients with complex orthopaedic conditions including revision hip replacements, spinal surgery and upper limb surgery. This role is ideally suited to an existing or emerging band 6 occupational therapist.

 

We are dedicated to support staff members upskill in both clinical and non clinical areas of practice. You will have excellent development opportunities in both clinical and non clinical areas of practice. You will be well supported by your clinical and professional OT supervisor, have access to CPD opportunities, as well as leadership support.

Main duties of the job

  • To provide a comprehensive Occupational Therapy service for clients with a wide variety of complex and multiple disabilities within the speciality of adult orthopaedics in a busy ward setting
  • To independently assess and treat patients through the acute post-operative phase of inpatient care, including short stay patients and inpatient rehabilitation
  • To promote the occupational therapy role and ensure the smooth day to day running of the team
  • To effectively work alongside colleagues in the multi disciplinary team to achieve the patients goals and facilitate safe transition from hospital to discharge destination
  • To adopt and promote a culture of continuous learning and personal development
  • To teach and supervise junior members of the team, therapy technicians and occupational therapy students
  • To contribute to service improvement to maintain high quality clinical care
  • To deputise for the Band 7 lead occupational therapist as appropriate including attending meetings and performing managerial and clinical tasks
  • This post will be part of a weekend Occupational Therapy service supporting discharges and rehabilitation across the inpatient ward

Working for our organisation

As a tertiary referral centre the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital is the largest orthopaedic hospital in the UK and a global leader in our field.

 

You will join a busy team occupational therapists who work in close collaboration with both physiotherapists and therapy technicians who manage a pre admission and inpatient adult orthopaedic service.  You will be assisting the band 7 and 6 occupational therapists with the day to day running of the in-patients service and provide line management support for rotational band 5 occupational therapists, therapy technicians and students.   For your professional development, you will be supported by a band 7 Occupational Therapist and the Clinical Specialist Therapy Team Lead to develop your clinical, managerial and service improvement skills, as well as having access to senior occupational therapy and  physiotherapy colleagues within the wider therapies department.

The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital therapy department has a well-established research and education focus. This includes an education, student, research and service improvement lead to support all staff members learning and development. There is regular access to internal and external CPD opportunities with a strong focus on leadership and clinical skill development.

 

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see attached JD and PS for details. 

Job Purpose summary

To assess and treat routine and highly complex patients in the adult orthopaedic team, to teach junior staff and students and support the in developing the service.

 

To provide cover for administrative, managerial and clinical tasks in the temporary absence of another member of the team, as appropriate to own level of experience.

 

Person specification

Analytical & Judgment Skills

Essential criteria
  • Clinical reasoning skills

Knowledge, Training & Experience

Essential criteria
  • 3 years minimum post qualification experience, including 6 months relevant clinical experience to the post
  • 6 months NHS experience
  • Degree in Occupational Therapy
  • Registered with the HCPC
  • Evidence of relevant CPD
  • Supervision experience and Teaching experience
  • Knowledge of biomechanical, cognitive behavioural and neurological treatment approaches applicable to clinical area
Desirable criteria
  • Experience with staff appraisal
  • Experience with clinical audit and outcome measures.
  • Previous experience at Band 6.
  • Awareness of some specialist equipment relevant to the post
  • Wheelchair assessment
  • Discharge planning
  • Member of the RCOT or recognised equivalent

Communication & Relationship Skills

Essential criteria
  • Good written and spoken English
  • Able to communicate with a variety of people, occasionally in emotional distress
  • Understanding of team dynamics in relation to MDT working
Desirable criteria
  • Presentation skill

Planning & Organisational Skills

Essential criteria
  • Good organisation of self and time
  • Willingness to take appropriate level of responsibility.
  • Flexibility and punctuality

Responsibility for Policy/Service Development and Responsibility for Research & Developmentnd

Desirable criteria
  • Clinical audit and outcome measure experience and Active interest in evidence based practice and research

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Apprenticeships logoNo smoking policyPositive about disabled peopleAge positiveInvestors in People: GoldImproving working livesCare quality commission - GoodMindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.Disability confident employerStonewall equality policy. Equality and justice for lesbians, gay men, bisexual and trans people.Defence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) - Gold

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.

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Rosalind Moss
Job title
Team Lead Adult Ortho Team
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
02089095480
Additional information

Supriya Nerlekar

Clinical Specialist manager

0208 909 5533

 [email protected]

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