Are you a highly motivated individual who has experience of working with children and families and would like to be part of Evelina London Children’s Hospital Team?
Due to secondment and service-wide changes, we currently have an opportunity for experienced and enthusiastic paediatric occupational therapists to join the Evelina London Children’s Hospital inpatient Occupational Therapy team in the following roles:
Band 7 Senior Specialist Occupational Therapist: LTV and Critical Care Lead (Full time, 12 month fixed term)
Band 7 Senior Specialist Occupational Therapist: Cardiac and NeuroDevelopmental Care Lead (Full time, permanent)
Occupational therapy can help babies, children and young people learn and play, so that they can develop, and reach their full potential and adapt to life with complex medical conditions. Occupational therapy enables them and their families to participate in daily life to improve their health and wellbeing.
Your role will involve working on the cardiac ward, critical care and Paediatric Intensive Care units, assessing infant and child development and occupational performance, working in collaboration with families to set goals and provide individualised advice and early intervention as required. You will provide neuro-developmental surveillance to these high risk infants and refer to community services to ensure children meet their developmental potential.
Your role will involve working closely with the occupational therapy and wider multidisciplinary inpatient teams and you will support with providing cover across other hospital wards.
The successful applicant will possess excellent verbal and written communication skills, as liaison with the multi-disciplinary team and with our community colleagues in health, education and social services, is essential.
We are a friendly and supportive team with a commitment to clinical development and ensuring well being at work. You will receive regular 1:1 clinical supervision from within the paediatric occupational therapy team, further supported by the clinical lead paediatric OT and professionally managed by the Trust Head OT. In addition to formal supervision, we promote a culture of knowledge sharing and reflective practice within our inpatient team within day to day practice, weekly team meetings and a monthly professional development programme for all staff.
You will have the opportunity to participate in departmental audits, service improvement, research projects or clinical networks and will be supported to do so.
For further information or an informal discussion, please contact Sarah Gardner (Clinical Lead Inpatient OT Service) on
[email protected] or 0207 188 9427.
Please see the attached job description for further details of the main responsibilities of this post.
