Job summary
- Main area
- Therapy
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 162-6880-AV
- Employer
- Barking Havering and Redbridge Univ Hospitals NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Queen's Hospital
- Town
- Romford
- Salary
- 拢59,490 - 拢66,239 per annum inclusive
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 16/03/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Band 8a Clinical Specialist Occupational Therapist
Band 8a
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Job overview
Main duties of the job
Through a holistic approach, provide a specialist standard of Occupational Therapy service to complex frail and elderly patients and carers, facilitating and maximising patient and carer safety and potential within the service boundaries at Queens Hospital, King George Hospital and associated community areas.
To demonstrate advanced and expert knowledge and skills in the autonomous management of frailty patients within acute elderly wards. To act as a source of expertise on the Occupational Therapy management of frailty and current evidence-based practice.
Working for our organisation
We鈥檙e an organisation that is getting better and better and our improvements are driven by a determination to deliver care we鈥檙e proud of and our patients are happy with. We鈥檙e no longer in ; we鈥檝e opened at our Elective Surgical Hub in King George Hospital (KGH); and Matthew Trainer, our Chief Executive, has been named by the Health Service Journal.
We operate from two main sites 鈥 KGH in Goodmayes and Queen鈥檚 Hospital in Romford. We have two busy emergency departments with more than 330,000 people visiting them last year. We鈥檙e campaigning to secure the 拢35m we need to and get rid of corridor care.
Our patients are benefitting from our in Ilford; an in Hornchurch; and Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) at and at in Hornchurch.
These CDCs are open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week and are providing an extra 88,000 scans a year.听
The majority of our 8,000 staff 鈥 who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. Many can and more than 400 of them are on our Ofsted accredited . We鈥檙e proud to be a employer.
We鈥檙e looking forward to introducing an electronic patient record that will be transformative for our staff and beneficial for our patients.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
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. 听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 听Amanda Vickers, Recruitment Advisor, on 01708 435000 ext. 5926. Further details regarding the post may be obtained by contacting the manager as per the contact details above.
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Person specification
Education/ Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Degree/Diploma in Occupational Therapy
Desirable criteria
- Post graduate training to MSc level
Skills/ Abilities
Essential criteria
- Highly specialist skills in Occupational Therapy assessment and treatment of frail patients in the acute setting, including rapid assessment areas
Experience/ Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Expert knowledge of relevant conditions, including acute frailty
Desirable criteria
- To have extensive broad clinical experience in acute care
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Hanli Mouton
- Job title
- Therapy Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01708435000
- Additional information
Ext 3758
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