Job Description

At Cleveland Clinic Health System, we believe in a better future for healthcare. And each of us is responsible for honoring our commitment to excellence, pushing the boundaries and transforming the patient experience, every day.

We all have the power to help, heal and change lives \xe2\x80\x94 beginning with our own. That\xe2\x80\x99s the power of the Cleveland Clinic Health System team, and The Power of Every One.

Job Summary

Salary: Competitive (Dependent on Experience)

Hours: 37.5 hours P/W - Full-Time (Rostered)

Location: 33 Grosvenor Place, London, SW1X 7HY

Contract: 12 month fixed term contract

Who are we?

Cleveland Clinic is one of the leading providers of specialised medical care in the world, focused on providing clinical excellence and superior patient outcomes for almost 6 million patient visits per year across more than 200 locations. We employ over 65,000 caregivers worldwide and continue to drive innovation in healthcare.

We opened our first healthcare facility in London in 2021 and our state-of-the art 184 bed hospital in 2022. With over 100 years of history, our \xe2\x80\x9cPatients First\xe2\x80\x9d philosophy will be at the heart of Cleveland Clinic London and the goal of our team is to create an environment that continues to delivers world-class clinical care.

What are we looking for?

As an autonomous practitioner within a multidisciplinary team, the Highly Specialist neurosciences Occupational Therapist will assess, treat and manage their own caseload and provide highly specialist neurological occupational therapy skills. This role will report directly to the Clinical Lead Occupational Therapist and be part of a highly innovative, evidence based, forward thinking neurosciences therapy team.

This role will provide therapy provision to the neurosciences wards and work within the wider therapy team providing occupational therapy expertise. With support from the Rehabilitation Services Manager and Clinical Lead Occupational Therapist ,this role will develop and progress education and research within occupational therapy. The role will motivate, empower, coach and develop team members through supervision frameworks. The role will have line management responsibility for therapy Caregivers within the occupational therapy team including annual appraisal duties.

What we need from you?

• Current registration with Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)
• Member of the Royal College of Occupational Therapy (RCOT) desirable.
• Membership of special interest group desirable Competencies (Complexity of Work)
• Specialist knowledge and experience in application of clinically reasoned, safe and evidenced based techniques, assessments, management plans and outcome measures in relevant clinical area of neurological occupational therapy.
• Effective and adaptable communication using a variety of verbal and written techniques to the needs of the patient, family, carer and wider MDT
• Ability to prioritise, delegate, organise and work effectively to a deadline \xef\x82\xb7 Ability to provide innovative, creative and evidenced based education to therapists and MDT.
• To be able to lead and assist in rehabilitation / manual handling of complex and potentially dependent patients with appropriate equipment and compliance with manual handling policies.
• To work in an inpatient environment with potential interruptions such as acutely deteriorating patients requiring urgent review, emotionally challenging scenarios requiring intense focus and frequent exposure to potentially unpleasant materials such as bodily fluids.
• To be able to lead and assist in rehabilitation / manual handling of complex and potentially dependent patients with appropriate equipment and compliance with manual handling policies.
• Extensive post \xe2\x80\x93graduate experience neurological occupational therapy at senior level.
• Experience in acute complex neuro-rehabilitation and neurosurgery
• Extensive experience of multidisciplinary / multi agency working at senior level.
• Experience of audit, quality improvement, clinical effectiveness and project planning.
• Experience of supervision, appraisal, development and managing performance including competency development.

What we offer you?

We are offering an array of benefits to compliment working for a not-for-profit market leader, some of our benefits include:

25 days Annual leave plus 8 days Bank holiday a year

Auto-Enrolment of 5% pension - Cleveland contribute 10% through Salary Exchange

Private Medical Insurance and Private Dental Insurance

Life Assurance

Discounted gym facilities in our Admin Office Building

Employee Assistance Programme

Seasonal Ticket Loans

If you would like to know more, please email recruitment@ccf.org or click apply below.

Please see Important Information below:

Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order (as amended) and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

\xe2\x80\x9cLet\xe2\x80\x99s deliver World Class care together!\xe2\x80\x9d

As an equal opportunities employer, we aspire to work together to promote a more inclusive work environment, which represents our commitment to celebrate diversity.

CCL is committed to applying its Equal Employment Opportunity/Workforce Diversity and Inclusion Policy at all stages of recruitment and privileging. Shortlisting, interviewing and selection will always be carried out without regard to any Protected Characteristics. When aware of the need to do so and when required, CCL will make reasonable adjustments to its arrangements for interviews and to conditions of employment/engagement for disabled applicants to ensure, so far as practicable, that they do not place such applicants at a substantial disadvantage in comparison to non-disabled applicants.

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