Job vacancy: Specialist Occupational Therapist, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, Peckham London

Job summary

Main area: Adult Community Services
Grade: Band 6
Contract: Permanent: Staff are required to be on call between 5pm - 9:30pm approximately once every three weeks, or as staffing requires. Staff are required to work a rota which includes weekends.
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 196-LIS9810

Employer: Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Southwark Council Building
Town: Peckham London
Salary: £46,419 - £55,046 p.a inc. HCA
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 01/09/2025 23:59
Interview date: 16/09/2025

Specialist Occupational Therapist

Band 6

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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Job Summary
To have responsibility for rehabilitation and therapy assessment, specialist intervention, care planning and review of individual clients on you caseload.

To delegate rehabilitation and care tasks to support workers.

To provide case management for adults and older people through
intensive short term support and rehabilitation programmes. Goal setting
with clients in order to maximise their independence in the community,
facilitate early discharge from hospital, reduce reliance on care and
reduce admissions to long term domiciliary care.

To work, frequently as a lone practitioner and at times in conjunction with
team colleagues, across a variety of locations within the community
including client’s homes and residential care settings to meet the
individual needs of the multi-cultural population in an inner city area.

To work as an autonomous practitioner complying with the standards set
by the regulatory body (Health Professions Council), professional body
(Chartered Society of Physiotherapy), government, Trust and department,
thereby being professionally and legally responsible and accountable for
all aspects of own work and to meet the requirements for professional
registration.

To work as part of a flexible multidisciplinary team, across traditional
professional boundaries to meet the needs of clients using a holistic and
client centred approach

To be responsible for practice, education, assessment, mentorship and
preceptorship of students and new/junior members of staff. To work
towards organisational priorities and achieving service aims.

To support the department’s commitment to meeting patient needs and
delivering excellence it is essential the post holder be able to work their
hours flexibly and contribute fully to both existing and new rotas over a 7
day week, including weekday and weekend on call shifts.

Person specification

Knowledge

Essential criteria

Recognised Occupational Therapy degree qualification or equivalent
Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) registration

Desirable criteria

Member of relevant clinical interest group e.g. College of Occupational Therapy
Registration or willingness to register as a member of the British Association of Occupational Therapists

Skills

Essential criteria

Ability to use an evidence-based approach including clinical outcome measures to evaluate outcomes
Ability to work as an autonomous practitioner and to make sound clinical judgements and decisions regarding patient care and to be responsible and accountable for decisions made
Ability to manage a changing workload of clinical and non-clinical duties demonstrating excellent time management, prioritisation and organisational skills.
Ability to carry out a range of risk assessments, in a variety of community settings
Ability to demonstrate skills sharing and collaborative multi- professional working, at a variety of levels, including ability to co-ordinate multi-disciplinary/ multi- agency meetings
Demonstrate highly developed verbal, non-verbal and written communication skills in English, and can deliver clear, concise reports
Ability to devise, deliver and evaluate training both within the service and to other agencies
Able to effectively manage conflict and difficult situations, and to challenge and support others appropriately and assertively
Able to develop effective therapeutic and working relationships, demonstrating empathy and motivational skills.

Desirable criteria

Proficient IT skills e.g. Excel & Power point
Has supervisory and appraisal skills

Experience

Essential criteria

Postgraduate experience across a range of clinical areas
Experience of working with adults and older people with chronic conditions and complex co-morbidities
Rehabilitation experience at Band 5 in all core areas: neurology, orthopaedics, respiratory, and care of the elderly

Desirable criteria

Experience of training in management skills
Has participated in research or service development

Guy’s and St Thomas’ celebrates, respects and values the diversity of its staff and patients. We review our policies, procedures and practices to ensure that all employees, patients and carers are treated equitable according to their needs. We are actively committed to ensuring that no one who applies for a job, works or study’s at the Trust, or accesses our services is discriminated against on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, religion or belief, age, gender identity , gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity/paternity, or marital/civil partnership.

Applications are welcomed from applicants with a disability. We can make reasonable adjustments and offer support and advice in a variety of ways throughout the application process. Equality of opportunity is our policy.

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.

Flexible working

We are committed to supporting all employees to achieve a healthy work life balance and to work in a way that is best for them and our patients. We will consider all requests to work flexibly, taking in to account the individual’s personal circumstances as well the needs of the service. We encourage all prospective applicants to discuss their individual circumstances with the recruiting manager as part of the on-boarding process.

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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

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name

Ramona Formosa

Job title

Clinical Specialist Occupational Therapist

Email address

[email protected]

Telephone number

07990903793

Additional information

Pauline Agbaimoni (Deputy Team Manager Occupational Therapist)

Pauline.Agbaimoni.southwark.gov.uk

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Specialist Occupational Therapist

Band 6

Job overview

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Working for our organisation

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Person specification

Knowledge

Essential criteria

Desirable criteria

Skills

Essential criteria

Desirable criteria

Experience

Essential criteria

Desirable criteria

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Documents to download

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