Senior Neonatal Occupational Therapist

Overview

Exciting opportunity for a permanent band 6 neonatal occupational therapist to join the existing neonatal OT and wider MDT teams covering the neonatal units.

At Denmark Hill site we have a 36 bedded busy, surgical NICU including neurology, neurosurgical, surgical, gastroenterology, and respiratory specialties as well as extreme prematurity. On the Princess Royal site there is a 15 bedded Local Neonatal Unit (LNU) including general medical, moderate prematurity and respiratory support needs.

We are looking for a motivated and enthusiastic specialist occupational therapist to join our existing team to provide services to these units, support projects and work together with the wider MDT.

The OT will join our well established Neonatal Therapy Team, and will be based at Denmark Hill but provide services cross site. This is a specialist static Band 6 Occupational Therapy post within the Multi-disciplinary neonatal therapy team at King's College Hospital. The post holder will work with the Band 8 OT and Band 7 OTs in ensuring that a high quality and effective OT service is provided to the neonatal units at Denmark Hill and PRUH sites.

This post will focus on developmental care and early intervention across the neonatal units, as well as neurodevelopmental follow-up for high risk infants. The Neonatal Unit provides specialist medical and surgical services to premature and sick newborn infants requiring intensive care, high dependency care, special care and community care. The post holder will be supported to develop specialist knowledge and skills to manage this complex patient group.

• Provide services to the neonatal units and support projects, working with the wider MDT.
• Work with the Neonatal Therapy Team and multidisciplinary colleagues to ensure high quality OT service.
• Focus on developmental care and early intervention across the neonatal units, and neurodevelopmental follow-up for high risk infants.

• HCPC registration and demonstrate wide experience in working with children and infants.
• Flexible approach to working and ability to work closely as part of a multi-disciplinary therapy team.

King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK's largest and busiest teaching Trusts with a turnover of c £1 billion, 1.5 million patient contacts a year and around 15,000 staff based across 5 main sites in South East London. The Trust provides a full range of local hospital services across its different sites, and specialist services from King's College Hospital (KCH) sites at Denmark Hill in Camberwell and at the Princess Royal University Hospital (PRUH) site in Bromley.

King's is committed to delivering Sustainable Healthcare for All via our Green Plan. In line with national Greener NHS ambitions, we have set net zero carbon targets of 2040 for our NHS Carbon Footprint and 2045 for our NHS Carbon Footprint Plus.

The trust-wide strategy Strong Roots, Global Reach is our Vision to be BOLD, Brilliant people, Outstanding care, Leaders in Research, Innovation and Education, Diversity, Equality and Inclusion (EDI) at the heart of everything we do. By being person-centred, digitally-enabled, and focused on sustainability, we can take Team King's to another level.

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