Specialist Occupational Therapist inLondon inLondon PUBLISHED THU 16 JAN 2025

We have an exciting and unique opportunity to join our General Medicine Team at St Thomas’ Hospital as a permanent Band 6 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 medicine pathway that will focus on the rehabilitation of patients including those that stepdown from critical care and/or with a neurological diagnosis.

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 across the medicine pathway. 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.

• To manage a specialist caseload within the acute medicine team using clinical reasoning, critical thinking, reflection and analysis to support assessments using a client-centred approach and current evidence base to assess, treat, implement, evaluate and document Occupational Therapy interventions.
• Assessments and Therapeutic interventions may occur in the inpatient environment and patients own homes.
• To be responsible for the assessment, treatment, implementation and documentation of Occupational Therapy interventions
• To develop positive and collaborative working relationships across Health and Social Care.
• To be responsible for the maintenance and development of our CPD and continuous learning.
  
  

Guy’s and St Thomas’ is one of the largest hospital trusts in the country, with around 12,500 staff; an annual turnover of more than £1 billion; and 1.6 million patient contacts a year. Our hospitals have a long and proud history, dating back almost 900 years, and have been at the forefront of medical progress and innovation since they were founded. We continue to build on these traditions and have a reputation for clinical, teaching and research excellence.

As an organisation we are committed to developing our services in ways that best suit the needs of our patients. This means that some staff groups will increasingly be asked to work a more flexible shift pattern so that we can offer services in the evenings or at weekends. We also have a positive approach to corporate social responsibility and are keen to engage our staff in an agenda that ranges from promoting environmental sustainability to the creation of local employment opportunities.

We are part of King’s Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre (AHSC), a pioneering collaboration between one of the world’s leading research-led universities and three of London’s most successful NHS Foundation Trusts. Our AHSC is one of only five in the UK and consists of King’s College London and Guy’s and St Thomas’, King’s College Hospital and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trusts.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Teresa Meldrum Job title: Clinical Specialist Occupational Therapist Email address: Telephone number: 02