Team Lead Occupational Therapist in Respiratory Medicine

We are looking for a Team Lead Occupational Therapist in Respiratory Medicine to deliver, coordinate, and develop a highly specialist Occupational Therapy service for patients with complex respiratory conditions, prolonged hospital admissions, functional deterioration, complex discharge needs, and associated physical, cognitive, psychological, and occupational performance difficulties. This is an exciting opportunity to provide clinical leadership within a specialist heart and lung hospital, supporting high-quality patient care, timely discharge planning, patient flow, staff development, education, service improvement, audit, and research. The post has a strong clinical focus, with scope to lead and influence Occupational Therapy practice in Respiratory Medicine locally, regionally, and nationally.Main duties of the job

• Delivering highly specialist Occupational Therapy assessment and intervention for patients with complex respiratory conditions.
• Providing advanced clinical reasoning in relation to breathlessness, fatigue, oxygen dependency, deconditioning, anxiety, cognitive changes, functional decline, and complex discharge planning.
• Developing tailored intervention plans using energy conservation, pacing, breathlessness management, functional retraining, adaptive approaches, environmental modification, and equipment provision.
• Supporting safe and timely discharge planning, including complex adaptive aid provision, care package recommendations, onward referrals, and liaison with community services.
• Providing clinical leadership, supervision, education, and competency development for rotational Occupational Therapists, students, therapy support workers, and assistant practitioners.
• Coordinating Occupational Therapy input within Respiratory Medicine and contributing to MDT discussions, board rounds, specialist pathway meetings, and patient flow processes.
• Identifying service gaps, escalating risks, and supporting the development of responsive, safe, and sustainable Respiratory Medicine Occupational Therapy provision.
• Leading or contributing to service evaluation, audit, research, quality improvement, and professional development initiatives linked to Respiratory Medicine.
  
  Are you a passionate and experienced Occupational Therapist ready to provide specialist clinical leadership in Respiratory Medicine? Would you like to work in an internationally renowned cardiothoracic centre rated as Outstanding by the Care Quality Commission? If so, we would like to hear from you.
  
  Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is the UK's leading heart and lung hospital, delivering care to more than 50,000 patients a year in its new state-of-the-art hospital in Cambridge. We perform the most heart and/or lung transplants in the UK and carried out the UK's first successful heart transplant in 1979. It also offers emergency heart attack treatment, sleep centre care and is one of just five centres nationally for those in severe respiratory failure.
Based on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus the largest centre of medical research and health science in Europe the Trust is at the heart of treatments of the future. Royal Papworth became the first hospital trust in the country to be rated outstanding in all five areas assessed by the Care Quality Commission - a rating it still holds today. The Trust holds its values of compassion, excellence & collaboration at its core, and all colleagues joining the team are expected to uphold these in their day-to-day roles & interactions. Royal Papworth is proud of its diverse workforce and encourages people to embrace their individuality. The Trust values difference and welcomes all applications irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy & maternity, race, religion & belief, sex and sexual orientation. Providing they meet the minimum post criteria, applicants with disabilities will be offered an interview. For a street view tour: https://royalpapworth.nhs.uk/virtual-tour