Lead Occupational Therapist

We are looking for an enthusiastic and highly motivated communications apprentice to join our busy communications team. You will support this award-winning team to effectively and creatively engage our internal and external audiences.

As a communications team, we are responsible for promoting and protecting the reputation of the Trust. We do this through providing strategic communications support to our executive and hospital management teams, proactive and responsive media, and stakeholder relations, engaging social and digital channels, creatively promoting our brand and inspiring internal communications.

The communications apprentice will work across the team to gain experience in media relations, public affairs, internal communications, digital communications, corporate communications and brand and design.

You will respond to enquiries over email and on the telephone using our WeCare values to deliver a high standard of customer service.

You will also establish and oversee efficient administrative and business systems to support the directorate so that we can deliver an efficient and professional communications service to the Trust.

A strong customer service attitude and collaborative approach is key., We are excited to be advertising for the role of Lead Occupational Therapist at St Bartholomew's hospital. This position has a key clinical leadership and management role, championing and driving initiatives within the Occupational Therapy profession. Clinically the post holder will support and manage OT's within the Barts Heart centre team and professionally support Barts Cancer Centre OT's, as well as building collaborative relationships across the MDT and external agencies. Their clinical work will support OT's to enable them to deliver diagnostic and clinical care to adult cardiac, respiratory and stroke patients, providing expert advice on complex clinical issues.

The role will support the head and deputy head of Therapies in setting the strategic direction for the department and deliver on its key objectives within the field of OT. These objectives are co-created with its workforce and other stakeholders, including our service users.

We are looking for an experienced and innovative clinician, with experience of quality improvement and staff management, to join our forward-thinking department of Dieticians, Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Speech and Language Therapists, exercise physiologists and support staff. You will benefit from a supportive multi-disciplinary team and be able to access a wide range of education and development opportunities to further develop your potential within the four pillars of clinical practice, research, education and leadership.

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain's leading healthcare providers.

The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.