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The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust is a leading Cancer Hospital in London, and the Occupational Therapy Department is recruiting to a full time, Band 6 role in our Sutton hospital (which attracts outer London weighting) to work across Adult wards and outpatients.
You will be joining a supportive and friendly team of qualified Occupational Therapists working in an acute setting to support needs of patients undergoing cancer treatment across all tumour groups. There is excellent internal and external CPD opportunities, generous support for study leave, parking onsite, and comprehensive staff benefits via Viv up.
- The Band 6 Occupational Therapist is an active member of a team that provides a high quality, evidence based occupational therapy service for the patient with cancer.
- As a skilled practitioner, the potholder is a source of knowledge and expertise for patients, relatives and colleagues of all disciplines.
- With the support of the Band 7 Occupational Therapist, they will organise occupational therapy activities within a defined clinical area and will also liaise closely with all members of the multi-professional rehabilitation team in the provision of a specialist input to a variety of education programmes.
For further information on this role, please see the attached detailed Job Description and Person Specification.
- Assessing, designing and fabricating static or dynamic splints specific to the individual patients needs to enable maintenance and improvement in upper limb functioning.
- Liaising with multi professional team within the hospital and community, to achieve optimum rehabilitation outcomes and planned coordinated packages of support across health and social care.
- Taking a key role in organising and facilitating discharge planning case conferences where functional independent is paramount.
- Teaching patients specialised strategies aimed towards the management of symptoms related to cancer e.g. relaxation and anxiety management, breathlessness and fatigue management.
The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust is a leading Cancer Hospital in London, and the Occupational Therapy Department is recruiting to a full time, Band 6 role in our Sutton hospital (which attracts outer London weighting) to work across Adult wards and outpatients.
You will be joining a supportive and friendly team of qualified Occupational Therapists working in an acute setting to support needs of patients undergoing cancer treatment across all tumour groups. There is excellent internal and external CPD opportunities, generous support for study leave, parking onsite, and comprehensive staff benefits via Viv up.
- The Band 6 Occupational Therapist is an active member of a team that provides a high quality, evidence based occupational therapy service for the patient with cancer.
- As a skilled practitioner, the potholder is a source of knowledge and expertise for patients, relatives and colleagues of all disciplines.
- With the support of the Band 7 Occupational Therapist, they will organise occupational therapy activities within a defined clinical area and will also liaise closely with all members of the multi-professional rehabilitation team in the provision of a specialist input to a variety of education programmes.
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For further information on this role, please see the attached detailed Job Description and Person Specification.
- Assessing, designing and fabricating static or dynamic splints specific to the individual patients needs to enable maintenance and improvement in upper limb functioning.
- Liaising with multi professional team within the hospital and community, to achieve optimum rehabilitation outcomes and planned coordinated packages of support across health and social care.
- Taking a key role in organising and facilitating discharge planning case conferences where functional independent is paramount.
- Teaching patients specialised strategies aimed towards the management of symptoms related to cancer e.g. relaxation and anxiety management, breathlessness and fatigue management.
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