A Vacancy at Barking Havering and Redbridge Univ Hospitals NHS Trust.
We have an exciting opportunity for a passionate and innovative Occupational Therapist with highly specialist skills and knowledge in the field of frailty and geriatrics to apply and join the Ageing Well multi-disciplinary team based at the newly developed St Georges Health and Wellbeing Hub. This is a multi-provider facility which in addition to the Ageing Well Unit will provide primary and community care, diagnostics, social and voluntary services.
Multi-professional comprehensive geriatric assessment is at the heart of our Ageing Well service. We will be implementing further measures to proactively manage patients who may be heading towards a crisis that would otherwise result in attendance to hospital, by providing same and next day urgent assessment appointments including Occupational Therapy assessment and intervention.
If you are passionate about the future of care for ageing patients, creative, happy to work flexibly across all the services within the Ageing Well Hub and want a rewarding opportunity where you will be encouraged to influence and develop services whilst being valued and supported then please apply to be part of our vision to create a Centre of outstanding care.
To provide specialist standard Occupational Therapy service to patients within the Frailty Unit, facilitating and maximising patient potential within the service boundaries using a holistic approach.
To give highly specialist guidance, advice and education to other members of the Multidisciplinary Team (MDT) on matters relating to your specialist area.
Provide leadership for your team (in conjunction with the Lead Nurse) in planning, coordinating, delivering and evaluating the Occupational Therapy service provided to patients within your area.
To provide a lead role in teaching, supervising and appraising peers, Band 6, Band 5, Student Occupational Therapists and Therapy Support Workers.
We’re an organisation that is getting better and better. We were the most improved Trust in England for A&E performance in 2023/24; we’re no longer in special measures; and Matthew Trainer, our Chief Executive, has been named the top CEO by the Health Service Journal. Our improvements are driven by a determination to deliver care we’re proud of and that our patients are happy with.
Many of our 8,000 staff – who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and the majority are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. More than 400 of them are on apprenticeship programmes and we’re proud to be a London Living Wage employer.
We operate from two main sites - King George Hospital (KGH) in Goodmayes and Queen’s Hospital in Romford. We have two of the busiest emergency departments in London – more than 300,000 people visited our A&Es in 2023.
Patients across north east London are benefitting from two new state of the art theatres at KGH and our Community Diagnostic Centres at Barking Community Hospital and St George’s Health and Wellbeing Hub will significantly increase the number of scans that can be carried out.
We’re looking forward to introducing an electronic patient record next year. This will mean the records of any patient visiting one of the seven hospitals run by BHRUT and Barts Health will be accessible to the clinical teams. It’ll make things easier for staff and will be better for patients.
For further information on this role, please see the attached detailed Job Description and Person Specification.
The person specification listed below is not the full specification requirements for the role. Please ensure you review the full specification on the job description prior to submitting your application.
Applicants are advised to read all the information on the advert and the supporting information before completing and submitting an application. As you complete your application please ensure you clearly demonstrate how you meet the criteria in the person specification for this post by adequately completing the supporting information section of the application form.
All new staff appointed at the Trust are subject to a probationary period.
Applications should be made online, however, queries regarding the application process, assistance with completion of the application form or if you require any adjustments (for applicants with a disability) please contact Tosin Aragbaiye, Recruitment Advisor, on 01708 435000 ext. 5934. Further details regarding the post may be obtained by contacting the manager as per the contact details above.
This advert closes on Wednesday 18 Sep 2024
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