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 P/W - Full-Time (Rostered)

Location: 33 Grosvenor Place, London, SW1X 7HY

Contract: Permanent

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?

We\xe2\x80\x99re recruiting a Clinical Lead Occupational Therapist - Neuro to provide innovative clinical and managerial leadership which inspires, motivates and empowers therapists to deliver an excellent patient experience.

This role will focus on delivering a high quality, robust and responsive service to all patients requiring Occupational Therapy Services.

What will your duties include?

This role will focus on delivering a high quality, robust and responsive service to all patients requiring Occupational Therapy Services.

The role will be based clinically within the Neurosciences institute and we are looking for an Occupational Therapist Lead with a specialist interest in all adult neurology, working alongside consultants and all members of the multidisciplinary team. Working as an autonomous practitioner, you will provide advanced neurological assessments, clinical diagnosis and management of patients in the neuro-rehabilitation and neurosurgical areas, ensuring that the service is informed by best evidence and expert knowledge.

You will have extensive postgraduate experience working within Neurosciences at a senior level and of the assessment and treatment of cognition.

What we need from you?

You will also demonstrate excellent clinical reasoning skills and specialist knowledge and application of therapy assessment and intervention for a range of neurological conditions. You will have experience of leading an effective team of qualified therapy staff and students from different specialist areas, and of empowering patients to make their own decisions around their condition and treatment.

Additionally you will have;

Current registration with the Health and Care Professions Council

Extensive postgraduate experience working within neurosciences at a senior level with experience of the assessment and treatment of cognition.

Extensive experience of leading an effective team of qualified therapy staff and students, including recruitment and induction, setting objectives, coaching and developing and managing performance

Extensive experience of multidisciplinary/multi agency working

Experience of completing audits, quality standard setting and risk management processes for clinical effectiveness

Experience of using clinical governance framework to monitor and improve quality of patient care

Experience of incident investigation and implementation of change of practice as a result of clinical incidents

Demonstrate evidence of learning from experience and having undertaken formal and informal CPD, both generic and specific to clinical field/specialty

Experience of supporting a culture of research awareness

Evaluation of clinical practice including participation in research/audit/service evaluation and quality

Experience of empowering patients to make informed choices about the management of their condition and engaging them in the planning and delivery of treatment, taking into account cultural, linguistic, medical, emotional, psychological and physical factor.

Experience in the assessment of capacity, ability to work within the legal framework with patients who lack capacity to consent and to support other caregivers to do likewise.

We can offer you:

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.

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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