occupational therapist London, England
Job description
An exciting new opportunity has arisen within the Children’s Therapy Team at St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust for the position of Clinical Lead Occupational Therapist in Neonates, based at St George’s Hospital. We are a friendly and welcoming team who encourage and celebrate diversity within our team.
Due to recent national funding across neonatal therapies, the Children's Occupational Therapy Team at St George’s is expanding. This post will be integral to the design and development of this growing team and delivery of a new embedded model of inpatient neonatal Occupational Therapy services.
The post-holder will be responsible for a varied clinical caseload and will be expected to have a high level of clinical skill and be able to work in the following specialty areas:
- Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU): 12 beds
- Neonatal High Dependency Unit (HDU): 13 beds
- Special Care Baby Unit (SCBU): 18 beds
- Post-natal wards (as required)
The successful candidate will have skills and experience in the assessment, management, and discharge planning of this varied and specialist caseload of neonates. They will work closely with the wider Children’s Therapy Team including colleagues across four allied health professions in Children's Services, Consultants, Specialist Medical Teams, Nurse Specialists, Nursing Staff, other members of the multidisciplinary team (MDT), to provide a collaborative, family centred approach.
St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is a major acute hospital & major trauma centre that offers highly specialist care for complex injuries and illnesses, including trauma, neurology & cancer care. The work of its emergency department was seen on Channel 4’s ‘24 Hours in A&E’ programme. The hospital also provides all the usual care you would expect from a local NHS district general hospital. The Trust & its strategic partners deliver high quality research and education, both of which contribute to the healthcare provision of tomorrow.
What you can expect from us:
- A robust induction period.
- A line manager with dedicated line management time.
- An annual Performance and Development Review (PDR) which provides all staff with the valuable opportunity to reflect on their performance, potential and development needs.
- Access to peer supervision, topic-based supervisions, training as identified in PDR.
- Provision of high quality, whole service and individual Continuing Performance Development (CPD) programmes.
- Opportunities to visit and share best practice across a range of settings and access to senior therapists in speciality clinical areas.
- Regular team meetings are scheduled, whereby team members get together to support and learn from each other.
- Children’s Therapies is a fully inclusive team with a culture of belonging.
- A wide range of benefits and access to staff support, wellbeing activities.
- Support for flexible working arrangements.
The successful candidate will be:
- Leading and managing the Occupational Therapy services to Neonatal and Special Care Baby Units
- An Occupational Therapy clinical expert in the management of neonatal and infant patients and provide expert clinical intervention for this client group.
- Working with the Neonatal team to design and manage a family centred service alongside MDT colleagues to meet the developmental needs of our neonatal patients and their families.
