Job Description

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 Chelsea hospital (which attracts inner 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 Vivup.

We encourage you to contact us to discuss the role if you are interested in applying. Please contact Lauren Blackburn on lauren.blackburn@rmh.nhs.uk or 0208 661 3090.



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 post holder 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



The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust is a world-leading cancer centre. Our role is to offer our patients the best cancer care available anywhere in the world, and to continue to make a global contribution to finding better ways of diagnosing and treating cancer. We employ over 4,500 staff in a diverse range of careers including nursing, medical, science, radiography, pharmacy, occupational therapy, finance and administrative services. We have two hospitals - one in Chelsea, London, and one in Sutton, Surrey - as well as a Medical Day-care Unit in Kingston Hospital.



At The Royal Marsden, we deal with cancer every day, so we understand how valuable life is. When people entrust their lives to us, they have the right to demand the very best. That's why the pursuit of excellence lies at the heart of everything we do.



At the heart of the hospital is our dedicated team. We offer a stimulating and dynamic working environment, a wide range of staff benefits, learning and development opportunities and clear career pathways. There are opportunities to work flexibly across a range of areas and specialities and we welcome flexible working requests from point of hire to support employees work life balance. We are looking for employees who aspire to excellence, share our values and can play a crucial role in our on-going achievements.



For further information on this role, please see the attached detailed and Person Specification.



Working autonomously in ward and outpatient settings to provide complex clinical assessment of the biomechanical, sensory, psychological, cognitive, perceptual and interpersonal deficits affecting the functioning of individuals with cancer, their families and carers through the use of advanced clinical reasoning.



Developing and implementing individual specialised therapeutic rehabilitation programmes specific to patient's needs based on activity analysis using a client-centred, problem solving approach.



Developing and implementing treatment and educational groups for people with cancer and their carers such as Health & Well Being groups.



Assessing and prescribing the complex wheelchair and specialist seating needs for example paralysis, dystonia, major surgery, extreme fatigue, pressure relief of patients with cancer.



Assessing, designing and fabricating static or dynamic splints specific to the individual patient's 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.