Adult Optimisation Occupational Therapist-Oncology

Job overview

Band 7 Adult Optimisation Occupational Therapist-Oncology

An exciting opportunity has arisen to work at one of the UK’s largest NHS Trusts. We are looking for a Band 7 Occupational Therapist who is ready for new challenges or an experienced Band 6 who is seeking promotional opportunities to join our Prehabilitation and Geriatric Oncology teams.

The successful post holder will hold a leading role in the on-going development and running of a multidisciplinary Prehabilitation service and Geriatric Oncology Service. The prehabilitation service sits within an innovative wider multidisciplinary team with many developmental opportunities for the post-holder such as level 2 psychological skills training and regular clinical supervision from the clinical psychology team to support the development and evaluation of the OT role within Prehabilitation. Additionally, there is opportunity to develop clinical skills in the newly established Geriatric Oncology Service working closely with other professionals in the outpatient clinics enhancing the provision to frail patients.

If you are excited by this opportunity, we’d love to hear from you. For further discussion, please contact Emily Dore-Smith:

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate should be a dedicated, skilled and motivated clinician with wide breadth of experience including; cognitive assessment, frailty screening and fatigue management. At Bart’s our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation; 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 care and being an outstanding place to work. For this reason, we recognise the importance of personal and professional development and that it is crucial to the success of our service. We therefore offer a robust teaching and training programme with the opportunity to complete Quality Improvement and Audit projects and we provide a supportive and engaging environment to develop and grow our therapists. As a band 7 you will also have the opportunity to develop your own supervisory and leadership skills through supporting and supervising junior therapists, therapy support workers and students.

Working for our organisation

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers.

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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Knowledge Essential Degree/ Diploma in Occupational
• Therapy Registered Member of HCPC Post graduate
• Post graduate courses relevant to the clinical speciality

Desirable criteria

• Evidence of Masters level qualification or equivalent experience in a relevant clinical area
• Member of special interest group
• Member of RCOT

Experience

Essential criteria

• Experience working at band 6 or equivalent level.
• Experience of service development and audit
• Experience in working in an outpatient setting
• Broad ranging experience in the oncology, neurological and surgical setting
• Experience of clinical education of students, developing educational programmes, teaching and presenting
• Experience of multi-professional working

Desirable criteria

• Previous experience working at a band 7 level
• Experience in working within a prehabilitation setting
• xperience of using clinical governance framework to monitor and improve patient care quality.

Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Knowledge of cancer treatments and consequences of treatment related side effects. Including frailty, fatigue, cognitive impairment, psychological distress etc.
• Knowledge of risk factors for morbidity and mortality post-surgery, and how optimisation may mitigate these.
• Knowledge of person centred care, positive psychology, behaviour change and self-management
• Knowledge of health issues affecting the local population and strategies in place to support improvement in these areas
• Demonstrate understanding and appropriate application of principles surrounding risk management, Trust’s policies of data protection, equal opportunities and health and safety

Desirable criteria

• Awareness of Local and National Cancer Directives including how prehabilitation fits with personalised care
• Awareness of Geriatric Oncology Guidelines

Skills / personal attributes & abilities

Essential criteria

• Highly developed communication skills i.e. Advanced Communication skills or equivalent
• Advanced skills in assessing, clinically reasoning and treating cognition, frailty, physical, ADL, fatigue and psycho-social issues.
• Able to work on own initiative, organising and prioritising own and others workloads to changing and often tight deadlines
• Enthusiasm, commitment, flexibility and self-motivation
• Ability to communicate effectively and flexibly and to adapt communication style to the needs of patient and staff.

Desirable criteria

• High level of data collection and analytical skills.
• High skill level in neurology assessments including cognition, sensation, vision, proprioception

Visa Sponsorship Information

This role is subject to UK immigration requirements. Where sponsorship is required, applicants must meet the eligibility criteria for a Skilled Worker visa in accordance with current UK Visas and Immigration rules, including any salary, qualification, and role-specific requirements applicable at the time of appointment. Candidates who require sponsorship will only be considered where the post is eligible and where all sponsorship criteria can be met. Evidence of the right to work in the UK will be required before appointment. Please note that for roles employed under Agenda for Change Terms and Conditions, the High-Cost Area Supplement (HCAS) is not included when calculating the basic salary for the purposes of sponsorship.