23 Oct
Cross-site
London
Main area
Neonatal services
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Contract
12 months (Fixed term)
Hours
Part time - 15 hours per week
Job ref
196-LIS8978
Employer
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Cross-site
Town
London
Salary
£61,927 - £68,676 pa inc HCA (pro rata of full-time)
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
03/11/2024 23:59
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
Network Lead Allied Health Professionals will will work as a member of a discrete Neonatal Network Lead Allied Health Professional (AHP) Team that forms part of the Neonatal Operational Delivery Network. They will work to implement the recommendations of the National Neonatal
Critical Care Review (NCCR) and the NHS Long Term Plan (2019), to improve access to skilled OTs on all neonatal units within the network.
They will support providers to achieve equitable access to and provision of, highly complex, discipline specific, AHP - OT knowledge and skills to new born preterm and term infants.
Main duties of the job
The London Neonatal Operational Delivery Network is seeking to recruit an Network Lead AHP from the following professional group.
- Occupational Therapist
This new role will support the delivery of the recommendations of the Neonatal Critical Care Review. The purpose of the network AHP role is to provide leadership across the network with a view to increasing access to AHPs on the neonatal unit and enhancing AHP provision. Specific responsibilities of the role include strategic input to ensure standardisation of care,
developing the education and training offer within the network for existing AHPs, developing clinical supervision groups, and maintaining clinical expertise. Please see the job description and person specification for further details.
The role is offered on a part-time basis on a 0.4 WTE / 15 hours per week as part of a job share. The role is offered on a Fixed Term basis (Maternity Cover).
If you have any questions about the advertised roles, please contact- Nigel Sanmoogan (Deputy Network Director) or Sarah Neilson (Lead ODN OT).
Working for our organisation
The London Neonatal Operational Delivery Network supports providers by bringing together , clinicians, experts in neonatal workforce, NHS England and Parents to improve access to specialist resources and expertise.
Networks coordinate patient pathways, and improve objective data and guidelines on best practice.
With the support of NHS England (London) and the host organisation Guys' and St Thomas NHS FT, the ODN aims to deliver innovative services across pathways of care and work in collaboration with service users and the voluntary sector to improve patient care and experience, and shape future neonatal services in the capital.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To improve access to specialist neonatal AHPs on neonatal units across London . See Job Description for detailed information and main responsibilities.
Guy’s and St Thomas’ celebrates, respects and values the diversity of its staff and patients. We review our policies,
procedures and practices to ensure that all employees, patients and carers are treated equitable according to their needs. We are actively committed to ensuring that no one who applies for a job, works or study’s at the Trust, or accesses our services is discriminated against on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, religion or belief, age, gender identity , gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity/paternity, or marital/civil partnership.
Applications are welcomed from applicants with a disability. We can make reasonable adjustments and offer support and advice in a variety of ways throughout the application process. Equality of opportunity is our policy.
As an organisation we are committed to developing our services in ways that best suit the needs of our patients. This means that some staff groups will increasingly be asked to work a more flexible shift pattern so that we can offer services in the evenings or at weekends.
Flexible working
We are committed to supporting all employees to achieve a healthy work life balance and to work in a way that is best for them and our patients. We will consider all requests to work flexibly, taking in to account the individual’s personal circumstances as well the needs of the service. We encourage all prospective applicants to discuss their individual circumstances with the recruiting manager as part of the on-boarding process.
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You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
*************@gstt.nhs.uk, Network Lead AHP
▶️ Neonatal ODN Lead Allied Health Professional - Occupational Therapy
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