23 Oct
Evelina London Children's Hospital
London
Main area
Paediatric Occupational Therapy
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 7
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
196-LIS8979
Employer
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Evelina London Children's Hospital
Town
London
Salary
£54,320 - £60,981 p.a. inc HCA (pro rata)
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
31/10/2024 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
Are you a highly motivated individual with experience in working with children and families?
We are seeking an energetic, motivated Band 7 Occupational Therapist (OT) to work in the outpatient upper limb rehabilitation services (Evelina REACH). These nationally and internationally visible services deliver best evidenced care to children and their families.
The post holder will predominantly work in the Evelina hemi REACH service. Evelina REACH is an innovative rehabilitation service for children (0-18 years) with asymmetrical / unilateral motor disorders including hemiparesis. This includes infants who have been diagnosed with a brain injury that places them at risk of movement difficulties. Children may also present with additional medical and/or neurodevelopmental conditions.
They will also work in the Upper Limb movement therapy arm of the REACH service, where tone management is the primary concern. The role in this service is to assess the impact of tone on the young person’s functional needs, consider benefits/limitations of botulinum toxin and provide consultant and advice to the young person and their family on management of their condition.
Main duties of the job
Evelina REACH service is a nationally recognised, OT led, upper limb service. The Hemi arm of the REACH service delivers evidence-informed intensive upper limb rehabilitation. As part of a protocol-driven service that encourages reflective practice, you will actively deliver rehabilitation in partnership with parents and community therapists.
The Movement therapy arm of the REACH service works alongside a consultant paediatrician specialising in neurology, focussing on the management of tone and its impact on the functional skills of the young people accessing the service.
This role involves providing specialist assessment, advice, and intervention, using modalities such as bimanual therapy,
a hybrid model (involving modified constraint-induced movement therapy followed by bimanual therapy), task-based goal-directed occupational therapy, splinting and casting. You will support children in achieving meaningful goals focused on functional skills and independence in self-care, school work, and leisure/play, alongside their families and local teams. Your role requires close liaison and partnership with community therapy services and other agencies.
Working for our organisation
You will work within the paediatric OT service at the Evelina London Children's Hospital, at the St Thomas' Hospital site. The paediatric OT team consists of 24 paediatric occupational therapists and two occupational therapy assistants.
How we support you:
The Evelina London is a supportive place to work with opportunities for professional development. The paediatric occupational therapy team is highly supportive, striving to offer a first-class service to patients and their families. You will receive individual supervision from a clinical specialist therapist within the paediatric OT team, further supported by the clinical lead paediatric OT and professionally managed by the Trust Head OT.
You will benefit from:
- A comprehensive induction program and workplace mentoring to ensure a great start and ongoing support to excel.
- Individually tailored professional development programs.
- Development of specialist knowledge and skills for working with children accessing specialist services.
- Frequent opportunities for multi-disciplinary learning.
- Potential to participate in departmental audits, research, and innovative projects, and to present at local, national, and international events.
- Opportunities for developing services and quality improvement projects.
- Increased knowledge and skills through participation in team and hospital-wide continuing professional development programs, appraisal, in-service training, and joint working
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
About you:
The successful applicant will have excellent verbal and written communication skills, as collaborative working within the multi-disciplinary and with our community colleagues in health, education and social services is essential. You will be an OT who has a child friendly approach and can be adaptable to meet the child’s individual therapy needs as well as flexible to support the team within a busy hospital environment.
You will be responsible for supporting the development of knowledge and skills for junior members of staff working in this area and will contribute to service development alongside the clinical specialists in Neurosciences.
There is also the opportunity to further develop specialist knowledge and skills in assessment and intervention for children within your caseload as you will work in consultation with the clinical specialist OT's working in the relevant services.
What you’ll need to succeed Drive and energy, with strong verbal and written communication skills; collaborative working within the multi-disciplinary teams and with our community colleagues in health, education and social services is essential.
- A child friendly approach and adaptability to meet the child’s and family’s needs as well as flexibility to support the team within a busy hospital environment.
- You will be energetic, clinically confident, and able to critically appraise literature in the field of occupational therapy, deliver evidence-based practice and be part of a service that encourages reflective practice.
- A Qualification in Occupational Therapy
- Full registration with HCP
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.
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.
Further details / informal visits contact
Name Jill Massey Job title Clinical Specialist Occupational Therapist Email address ***********@gstt.nhs.uk Telephone number 07874890521