Job summary
- Main area
- Occupational Therapist
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 30 hours per week
- Job ref
- 196-LIS9753
- Employer
- Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Guy's Hospital
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £56,276 - £63,176 p.a. inc. HCA (pro rata)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 12/08/2025 23:59
Employer heading

B7 Occupational Therapist - Inpatient Renal & Urology
Band 7
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.
Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.
Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions.
Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.
In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.
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. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.
We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.
Job overview
Senior Specialist Occupational Therapist - Renal and Urology
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a B7 Senior Specialist Occupational Therapist to work as part of an established and dynamic Renal and Urology multi-disciplinary therapy team.
Guy's and St Thomas' renal and transplant service is a centre of excellence for the treatment of kidney disease. Clinical services are centred at Guy's with outreach services offered on a number of sites in south east London and Kent. This role covers the inpatient wards at Guy’s hospital.
We are seeking an individual who is enthusiastic, dynamic and forward thinking with excellent proven clinical and people management skills. Supported by the clinical specialist you will have responsibility for overseeing the inpatient Renal & Urology Occupational Therapy team. This will include the assessment and acute rehabilitation of your own complex caseload, as well as providing supervision and leadership to the junior team. This post will allow you to develop and utilise your specialist clinical skills in the management of people with complex health, rehabilitation and supportive care needs. Prior experience in the NHS would be desirable.
We would encourage Occupational Therapists working in different specialities with transferrable skills and an interest in this area of work to apply.
Main duties of the job
To provide a high quality expert Occupational Therapy Service to a specialist caseload of Renal & Urology based at Guy's and St. Thomas' Hospital Trust. This service consists of renal wards, high dependency unit, dialysis units, and outpatient renal, low clearance and nephrology clinics.
- To manage a complex caseload within renal & Urology wards, using advanced clinical reasoning, critical thinking, reflection and analysis to support assessments using a client.
- 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.
- 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 renal medicine service at a specialist 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 OT Service as required by the Heads of Service.
Working for our organisation
We have a wide in-service core teaching program and supportive of further professional development needs. The post will provide 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 Renal and Urology care.
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK's best known hospitals - Guy's, St Thomas', Evelina London Children's Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield - as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation. Guy's and St Thomas' renal and transplant service is a centre of excellence for the treatment of kidney disease.
We have around 22,700 staff, making us one of the largest NHS Trusts in the country. We aim to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve and continue to develop new and existing partnerships with local people, patients, neighbouring NHS organisations, local authorities and charitable bodies and GPs.
We strive to recruit and retain the best staff as the dedication and skills of our employees lie at the heart of our organisation and ensure that our services are of the highest quality, safe and focused on our patients.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached the job description and person specification documentation for further information on the role and its requirements.
Person specification
Training and Qualification
Essential criteria
- Diploma or Degree in Occupational Therapy
- Masters level or equivalent training in specialist area or evidence of significant practical experience, research or publication in specialist area.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Evidence of clinical knowledge of the interplay of disease process and functional wellbeing.
- Experience should include a varied range of clinical experiences in an acute hospital setting.
- Evidence of continuing professional development and post registration education and training.
- Experience of audit.
- Ability to supervise junior staff and students.
Desirable criteria
- Experience in areas such as: Renal medicine Stroke rehabilitation Elderly care Hand therapy Palliative care General medicine
Skills & Abilities
Essential criteria
- Specialist knowledge, understanding and application of Occupational Therapy process relating to client centred practice.
- Specialist knowledge, application and analysis of standardised assessment tools.
- Ability to prescribe adaptive equipment, assistive devices, wheelchairs and pressure cushions for patients with a variety of complex conditions.
- Experience of working within multi-disciplinary diagnostic and intervention services.
- Ability to manage individual and team performance.
- Basic knowledge of upper and lower limb splinting and orthoses fabrication, hand therapy and management
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Rosemary Marshall
- Job title
- Clinical Specialist Occupational Therapist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 020 7188 4185
- Additional information
Please do not hesitate to contact Rose Marshall (Clinical Specialist Occupational Therapist) 020 7188 4185 [email protected] if you would like to discuss the role further.
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