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Job Summary

Salary: Competitive (Depending on experience)

Hours: 37.5 hours per week

Location: 33 GP (SW1X 7HY)

Contract: Full-time, permanent

What are we looking for?

Cleveland Clinic London are looking to recruit a Specialist Occupational Therapist to join our Therapy team, with a competitive salary range on offer, depending on experience.

As an autonomous practitioner within a multidisciplinary team, the specialist Occupational Therapist will assess, treat and manage their own caseload through the Occupational Therapy process. This role is rotational between our 2 main Occupational Therapy teams:

Acute: Which covers neuro outliers, surgical wards and critical care

Rehabilitation: which covers both complex inpatient rehabilitation (neuro, poly trauma, amputee) and outpatients

Within this role, you will have the opportunity to develop specialist neuro skills including comprehensive assessment and treatment modalities whilst working within the unique profile of the occupational therapy profession.

The role will have opportunities to develop clinical and non-clinical specialist skills as well as experience within research, service development and progression into future leadership. The role will involve supported supervision of therapy assistants, OT students and have supportive individualised supervision and performance development with senior occupational therapists.

This is a full-time role working between Monday – Friday, working different shift patterns between the hours of 8am – 6pm.

What makes us different?

Cleveland Clinic London offers a brand-new high-acuity environment with the very latest equipment, where caregivers are encouraged to grow their expertise across multiple specialties, and in collaboration with expert clinicians. Our Mission, ‘Caring for life, researching for health, and educating those who serve’, assures our unwavering commitment to professional development.   

Working as an autonomous practitioner, the Clinical Lead Occupational Therapist will provide advanced assessments, clinical diagnosis, and management of patients in the neurorehabilitation, generic rehabilitation, amputee and neurosurgical areas, ensuring that the service is informed by best evidence and expert knowledge.

What will your duties include?

• Effectively apply clinical reasoning to assess, progress, adapt and treat patients seeking guidance at appropriate times to ensure safe and effective care
• Be able to identify risk within clinical setting including potential safety issues around care and discharge and communicate this effectively with support as appropriate.
• Be professionally and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of own work, ensuring a high standard of care and actively encourages and motivates others to do the same
• Managing a patient caseload through the occupational therapy process
• Be actively involved in appropriate audit and research activities within the department, supporting lead therapists with departmental strategies and priorities

What we need from you?

• Degree in relevant AHP area – Required
• Evidence of continuous professional / academic development relevant to clinical field - Required

• Current registration with Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) – Required
• Knowledge of the 3 main areas of occupational performance (physical, cognitive, affect) and these impact meaningful participation
• Ability to work across the multi-disciplinary team including in multidisciplinary meetings, communicating with all relevant stakeholders including occupational therapy and case management teams.

What We Offer

As a private hospital with no shareholders, we reinvest all profits back into our organisation. This allows us to provide meaningful, tailored support and development opportunities for our caregivers - alongside a range of benefits, including:

• 25 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays
• Double-matched salary exchange pension – contribute 5% and we’ll contribute 10%
• Private Medical & Dental Insurance
• Life Assurance
• Season Ticket Loan & Cycle to Work schemes
• Workplace Nursery Scheme
• Wellbeing Hub with mental health, coaching and EAP support
• Earned Wage Access - get early access to part of your pay when needed
• Access to discounts on food, retail, and more

Who we are?

Cleveland Clinic is one of the leading providers of specialised medical care in the world, providing clinical excellence and superior patient outcomes for almost 6 million patient visits per year across more than 200 locations. We employ over 80,000 caregivers worldwide and continue to drive innovation in healthcare.

With over 100 years of history, our “Patients First” philosophy is at the heart of everything that we do.

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Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Check

This role may be subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order (as amended) and 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.

“Let’s deliver World Class care together!”

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.