We are looking for a highly skilled, passionate and versatile Highly Specialist Occupational Therapist to join our team in the Barts Heart Centre. You would be working within a tertiary cardiac and respiratory centre which ranges across the patient pathway from intensive care to the wards with great team support and opportunities.
The Barts Heart Centre comprises of 58 critical care beds, a 40 bedded coronary care unit (CCU), specialist cardiac and aortovascular surgery. There is a great variety of cardiovascular, respiratory and cancer patients from cardio-thoracic, heart failure and cardiology to early electrophysiology and heart attack patients.
The ideal candidate will have a passion for Occupational Therapy; excellent communication skills, plenty of initiative and enthusiasm with the ability to work autonomously and as a part of the wider MDT.
Within Bart's we offer a robust teaching and training programme with the opportunity to complete Quality Improvement and Audit projects. The successful candidate will work alongside an established team of occupational therapists that are committed to innovation and ongoing development of the service and themselves as professionals. The team is about to begin undertaking research in an international, multi-centre study into cognitive, physical and quality of life outcomes following an out of hospital cardiac arrest, being part of a site based critical care delirium working group project and critical care follow-up clinic.
To play a major and specialist role in the advanced assessment, treatment and clinical management of patients with respiratory, cardiology, cardiac and neurological conditions, determining clinical diagnosis, functional deficits and the occupational therapy treatment programme required, commencing in the intensive care setting through to their hospital discharge.
To be dynamic in developing efficient and effective occupational therapy working processes to assist in producing a fully multi-professional team approach across the patient pathway.
To work with the Clinical Lead Therapist to develop the service to best meet changing health and social care agendas.
The post is responsible for a team of staff in their clinical area and may be required to work across hospital sites and or more than one speciality area.
Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain's leading healthcare providers.
The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.
Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.
We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.
We are dedicated to being an outstanding place to work and will work with you to get the best experience. We know flexible working is not a one size fits all and will mean something different to everyone. We are inclusive, so if you are interested in flexible working, please speak to the recruiting manager.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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Barts Health NHS Trust
St Bartholomew's Hospital
London
EC1A 7BE
https://www.bartshealth.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)