Senior Specialist Occupational Therapist

We have an exciting and unique opportunity to join our General Medicine and Older Persons Team at St Thomas' Hospital as a Band 7 Occupational Therapist.This post sits within a supportive occupational therapy management structure which welcomes innovation and quality improvement whilst prioritising staff well-being. You will need to be enthusiastic and flexible with excellent communication skills to manage a varied and interesting role. We are looking for a motivated clinician who will contribute to helping us to lead the way in defining a new Occupational Therapy role within the OPU/medicine pathway that will focus on those discharges that can be managed within a short time frame. The successful candidate will have responsibility for overseeing the inpatient caseload which will include provision of holistic and client centred occupational therapy assessment and intervention. This post will allow you to develop and utilise your specialist clinical skills in the management of people with complex health, rehabilitation and social care needs whilst providing you with an excellent opportunity to develop your leadership skills, expand your professional development and participate in the wider local and national agenda's for acute medicine and older people., To provide a high quality expert Occupational Therapy Service to a specialist caseload ofpatients within the Older Persons Unit and medical wards at St Thomas Hospital.

• To manage a complex caseload within the Medicine and Older Persons team using critical thinking, reflection and analysis to support assessments using a client centred approach.
• To be responsible for a designated team of Occupational Therapists providing leadership for junior staff, Technical Instructors and Occupational Therapy Assistants through supervision and performance management as required.
• To assist junior staff in the management of complex cases requiring advanced clinical reasoning.
• To lead and advise on clinical Occupational Therapy developments within the Medicine and Older Peoples service within the hospital and nation-wide level, and other related Trust wide projects.
• To be responsible for the maintenance and development of own CPD identifying and contributing to the evidence base of Occupational Therapy.
• To educate Occupational Therapy Students on practice placements.
• To provide a patient centred approach and current evidence base to assess, treat, implement, evaluate and document Occupational Therapy interventions.
• To support the management of the Occupational Therapy Service as required by the Heads of Service.
  
  Guy's and St Thomas' is among the UK's busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.
We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King's Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King's College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit. Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of 'good'. Our adult community services achieved a rating of 'outstanding'. The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care.