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?
We have specialist funding for a winter pressures post to support delivery of Occupational Therapy across our inpatient wards.
This post holder will have the opportunity to work with patients with cardiac, neurological and orthopaedic conditions as the main cohort of patients.
There may also be the opportunity to work across PICU and other specialist areas to support the team.
Your role will involve working in collaboration with families to set goals and provide individualised advice and early intervention as required.
You will also be 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.
