Job summary

This exciting Rotational Band 7 Occupational Therapist post is a chance to work within our highly specialist teams within Queen's Hospital Hyper-Acute Stroke unit and our Regional Neurosciences Centre. You will have opportunity to use high level clinical skills across the Stroke pathway on various sites: Hyper-acute stroke unit (HASU), Acute Stroke unit (ASU), Rehabilitation ward and our Early Supported Discharge (ESD) community service. Within Neurosciences you will experience a wide range of elective and acute conditions across our wards, including; acquired brain injury, TBI, neuro-oncology, acute neurology, spinal trauma and spinal cord injury. You will be delivering clinical care, providing team support and helping to develop the service across acute wards, critical care, elective and community pathways across our sites. Queen's is a busy hospital situated on the fringes of London with access also into the countryside of Essex. You will be part of a friendly and hard working integrated therapy team within a wider multidiciplinary team. If you want a rewarding opportunity where you will be encouraged to influence and develop whilst being valued and supported, then apply today. There will be consideration of a Band 6-to-7 Development post for applicants displaying the appropriate levels of skills and knowledge.

Main duties of the job

To contribute to the development, implementation and monitoring of the provision of services to clients with a diagnosis of stroke and neurological conditions. This post is part of a Band 7 rotation which includes: Hyper Acute Stroke Unit (HASU)/Acute Stroke Unit (ASU), Stroke Rehabilitation, Early Supported discharge (ESD) Stroke Service and Acute Neurosciences (including support to Neuro Outliers service). To provide specialist assessment, treatment and advice to patients within your area of speciality, facilitating and maximising patient potential within service boundaries. To give highly specialist guidance and advice to other members of the Multidisciplinary Team (MDT) on matters relating to your specialist area. To plan, co-ordinate and evaluate the Occupational Therapy service provided to patients within the acute stroke unit/ Neurosciences, on a day-to-day basis. To negotiate and enable changes in the patient's quality of life, by developing their transition between roles and optimising purposeful, meaningful activity. This involves assessment, practice of functional tasks, counselling, motivating and reintegration back into the community and includes supporting the patient's carer/relative and educating them on specific rehabilitation techniques to optimise independence.

About us

We're an organisation that is getting better and better and our improvements are driven by a determination to deliver care we're proud of and our patients are happy with.

They are benefitting from a new electronic patient record (we were the last acute trust in London to introduce one) and our maternity services have been rated good by the Care Quality Commission.

We operate from two main sites - KGH in Goodmayes and Queen's Hospital in Romford. We have two busy emergency departments with more than 346,000 people visiting them last year. We're campaigning to secure the £35m we need to transform the A&E at Queen's and get rid of corridor care.

We're proud of our regional Neurosciences Centre, Radiotherapy Centre and Hyper Acute Stroke Unit. We're also part of the North East London Cancer Alliance.

We run a Women's Health Hub in Ilford; an Ageing Well Centre in Hornchurch; and Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) at Barking Community Hospital and at St George's Health and Wellbeing Hub. These CDCs are open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week.

The majority of our 8,400 staff - who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. Many can work flexibly and more than 400 of them are on our Ofsted accredited apprenticeship programmes. We're proud to be a London Living Wage employer.