Specialist Occupational Therapist | Barts Health NHS Trust

An exciting opportunity to join the Newham Hospital therapy team has come up. We are looking for an Occupational Therapist to provide high quality interventions to a wide variety of patients across our Accident and Emergency Department, Acute Assessment Unit and Care of the Elderly service. This role provides the opportunity to work within a dynamic and resilient team providing advanced assessment and treatment of patients, with a focus on occupational engagement and performance in the acute medical setting.

The successful applicant will demonstrate an occupationally focussed, patient-centred approached to practice including the provision of individual and group education and treatment, provision of assistive devices and equipment, recommendations for minor structural home adaptations, provision of complex disability management and recommendations for onwards care, and intervention and support to optimise occupational engagement and participation post discharge from hospital.

The role includes opportunities to experience other services within the Newham collective, which link with our partner services including Adult Social Care, Hand therapy, Acute and Community Mental Health teams, Extended Primary Care Team (EPCT) and Enabled Living.

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

The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.

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.