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Are you a confident and motivated Band 5 or an emerging Band 6 Occupational Therapist who would like to develop new clinical and managerial skills within an acute setting?

Are you a motivated and forward thinking Occupational Therapist looking to develop specialist skills within an acute in-patient therapy team?

To provide a high quality efficient Occupational Therapy service to in-patients within the Medical, Surgical and Respiratory Medicine, Acute wards, supported by Band 7 Occupational Therapist.

To assist Band 7 Occupational Therapist in the organisation and development of a comprehensive Occupational Therapy service for adults.

• To manage own caseload including assessment, treatment and support of

clients, applying specialised skills and knowledge.

• To provide and gain appropriate information from clients and carers regarding their needs and concerns, in order to provide a service to meet those needs.
• To be an active member of the multidisciplinary team and to provide

coordinated and comprehensive treatment programs.

• To refer to various multidisciplinary team members as appropriate following assessment of patient needs.

Please note that 7 day working is undertaken across therapies at the Trust. Days off are allocated in the week following weekend working (1 in 5 weekends).

London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH) cares for the people of Brent, Ealing, Harrow and beyond.

Our team of more than 8,200 clinical and support staff serve a diverse population of almost one million people.

We run major acute services at:

• Northwick Park Hospital: home to one of the busiest emergency departments (A&E) in the country. The hospital provides a full range of services including the country’s top-rated hyper-acute stroke unit and one of only three hyper-acute rehabilitation units in the UK
• St Mark’s Hospital: an internationally renowned specialist centre for bowel disease
• Ealing Hospital: a busy district general hospital providing a range of clinical services, as well as 24/7 emergency department and urgent care centre, and specialist care at Meadow House Hospice
• Central Middlesex Hospital: our planned care site, hosting a range of surgical and outpatient services and collocated with an urgent care centre.

We are a university teaching NHS trust, in recognition of the important role we play in training clinicians of the future and bringing the benefits of research to the public.

To view the main responsibility, please see the attached the Job Description and Person Specification.