Band 7 Specialist Occupational Therapist Acute

Main area BHRUT Therapies Grade Band 7 Contract Permanent Hours Full time Job
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Site Queen's Hospital Town Romford Salary £53,751 - £60,651 per annum inclusive Salary period Yearly Closing 25/01/2026 23:59

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The Acute Elderly Unit Therapy Team in BHRUT are actively recruiting for a motivated and dynamic Band 7 Occupational Therapist to join our team at Queen’s Hospital in Romford, Essex.

The team covers 3 Acute Elderly Wards and are part of the Frailty service provision. Working in a fast-paced environment, you will have the opportunity to expand your clinical skills and knowledge and be expected to supervise and educate more junior staff.

You be required to demonstrate strong leadership skills and be confident to work as an autonomous practitioner with a focus on complex assessment and discharge planning with robust decision-making essential for efficient patient flow. You will be familiar with the assessment of patients with diverse presentations and complex physical, cognitive and psychological health conditions within elderly and medical specialties in order to develop and deliver treatment and discharge plans.

The team is an integrated service with Occupational Therapy, with staff working to develop an enhanced therapy role.

You will be supported in your role directly by the Clinical Specialist OT. Peer support will be provided by the existing B7 Physio’s and OT’s and plenty of CPD opportunities are available.

If you have the skills outlined above and want a rewarding opportunity where you will be encouraged to influence and develop services whilst being valued and supported then apply today. Band 6 to 7 development post will be considered.

• To provide specialist standard of Occupational Therapy service to patients within the acute elderly units with a special focus on the assessment of the acute elderly patients, 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 Clinical Leads) 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 Generic Therapy Assistants
• To deputise in the absence of senior colleagues as required both within management and clinical areas.
• To contribute to the running and development of the service through the promotion, adaptation and development of policies, procedures and guidelines using evidence-based practise.
• Undertake supervision, mentoring and performance development plans to promote clinical and professional effectiveness of self and others. This includes performance management, management of disciplinary issues in liaison with Therapy Manager.

We’ve an organisation that is getting better and betterand our improvements are driven by a determination to deliver care we’re proud of and our patients are happy with.

They are benefit ting from a new electronic patient record (we were the last acute trust in London to introduce one) and our maternity services have been rated good by the Care Quality Commission.

We operate from two main sites – KGH in Goodmayes and Queen’s Hospital in Romford. We have two busy emergency departments with more than 346,000 people visiting them last year. We’re campaigning to secure the £35m we need to transform the A&E at Queen’s and get rid of corridor care.

The majority of our 8,400 staff – 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 work flexibly and more than 400 of them are on our Ofsted accredited apprenticeship programmes. We’re proud to be a London Living Wage employer.

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