# Band 8a Clinical Lead Occupational Therapist Oncology and Medical > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/band-8a-clinical-lead-occupational-therapist-oncology-and-medical/e1fa53fd-ddeb-4750-9825-a3df6a17f1bc - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/band-8a-clinical-lead-occupational-therapist-oncology-and-medical/e1fa53fd-ddeb-4750-9825-a3df6a17f1bc.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** London - **Region:** London - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Occupational Therapist - **Grade:** Band 8 - **Salary:** £66,274 - £73,496 Per annum inclusive of HCAS - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** 37.5 hours per week (Full time) - **Closing date:** 2026-06-09T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-05-26T12:22:02.977Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/London/Royal_Free_London_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Allied_Health_Professionals/Allied_Health_Professionals-v8000738 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8000738?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.royalfree.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview This is an exciting time to be working at the Royal Free London NHS Foundation one of the biggest NHS Trusts in the UK, delivering care to more than 1.6 million people a year through our three main hospitals: Barnet, Chase Farm and Royal Free. We are looking for an experienced Occupational Therapist to lead and develop our therapy team on the oncology ward at the Hampstead site as well as support the therapy team in medical specialties, including infectious diseases, respiratory and cardiology. You would be required to provide clinical leadership to a team of Occupational Therapists, physiotherapists, dietitians and therapy assistants. You will also be part of the leadership team for Occupational Therapy, developing the service in the trust. The successful candidate is required to demonstrate the Trust values, the responsibilities of the job description and person specification. In particular you should have proven experience of leading teams and be willing to work in new and innovative ways. This is an exciting time to be joining the therapy team at the Royal Free, as we are developing new ways of working, especially in Occupational Therapy. If you believe you meet the criteria of the person specification, we would welcome your application. To find out more about working at the Royal Free please visit our website at: www.royalfree.nhs.uk/jobs Please contact Deborah Ferreira on 02077940500 ext 34707 or \[email protected\] ### Main duties of the job - As an autonomous practitioner, provides highly specialist OT interventions for own caseload of complex oncology and medical inpatients. This includes respiratory, cardiology, infectious diseases and oncology. - To be responsible for the ongoing development of the non-surgical pre-optimisation pathway for therapy services. - To provide clinical leadership to the complex medical and oncology inpatient team Occupational Therapists and Physiotherapist and Dietitians for both inpatient and outpatient services. - To be responsible for the safe, effective and timely provision of a therapy service to oncology and medical inpatients at The Royal Free Hospital. - To have responsibility for the clinical supervision of senior occupational therapists working in the medical specialties at the Royal Free Hospital. - To have responsibility for supporting clinical audit, research, and QI within therapy services and with our MDT colleagues. - To implement best practice guidelines within the acute OT service (in own service and in collaboration with other OT Clinical Leads across all acute inpatient areas). - To work collaboratively with all members of the MDT (internal and external partners), including medical, nursing, discharge and operational staff to support national and local NHS strategies impacting oncology and medical patients. ** For full details please see attached Job Description and Person Specification** ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Please see the attached Job Description document which will provide a more detailed description of role and main responsibilities. ## Job Details This is an exciting time to be working at the Royal Free London NHS Foundation one of the biggest NHS Trusts in the UK, delivering care to more than 1.6 million people a year through our three main hospitals: Barnet, Chase Farm and Royal Free. We are looking for an experienced Occupational Therapist to lead and develop our therapy team on the oncology ward at the Hampstead site as well as support the therapy team in medical specialties, including infectious diseases, respiratory and cardiology. You would be required to provide clinical leadership to a team of Occupational Therapists, physiotherapists, dietitians and therapy assistants. You will also be part of the leadership team for Occupational Therapy, developing the service in the trust. The successful candidate is required to demonstrate the Trust values, the responsibilities of the job description and person specification. In particular you should have proven experience of leading teams and be willing to work in new and innovative ways. This is an exciting time to be joining the therapy team at the Royal Free, as we are developing new ways of working, especially in Occupational Therapy. If you believe you meet the criteria of the person specification, we would welcome your application. To find out more about working at the Royal Free please visit our website at: www.royalfree.nhs.uk/jobs Please contact Deborah Ferreira on 02077940500 ext 34707 or \[email protected\] ## Job Description As an autonomous practitioner, provides highly specialist OT interventions for own caseload of complex oncology and medical inpatients. This includes respiratory, cardiology, infectious diseases and oncology. To be responsible for the ongoing development of the non-surgical pre-optimisation pathway for therapy services. To provide clinical leadership to the complex medical and oncology inpatient team Occupational Therapists and Physiotherapist and Dietitians for both inpatient and outpatient services. To be responsible for the safe, effective and timely provision of a therapy service to oncology and medical inpatients at The Royal Free Hospital. To have responsibility for the clinical supervision of senior occupational therapists working in the medical specialties at the Royal Free Hospital. To have responsibility for supporting clinical audit, research, and QI within therapy services and with our MDT colleagues. To implement best practice guidelines within the acute OT service (in own service and in collaboration with other OT Clinical Leads across all acute inpatient areas). To work collaboratively with all members of the MDT (internal and external partners), including medical, nursing, discharge and operational staff to support national and local NHS strategies impacting oncology and medical patients. ** For full details please see attached Job Description and Person Specification** ## Responsibilities Please see the attached Job Description document which will provide a more detailed description of role and main responsibilities. ## Person Specification ### Others **Essential** - · Ability to carry out manual handling tasks in line with trust guidelines - · Competent IT skills - · Familiar with NHS and Social Care Policies - · Able to comply with equal opportunities policies ### Experience **Essential** - · Recent experience in an acute setting in Oncology,medicine oncology/haematology, long term and life limiting conditions, respiratory or infectious diseases) or similar. - · Experience of working autonomously managing own priorities and multiple demands on time - · Evidence of having clinically supervised senior qualified staff - · Experience of leading a service - · Active involvement in clinical audit/research, quality improvement and policy/guideline implementation - · Experience teaching in multi-disciplinary group setting. - · Experience of facilitating service development by collaborating with stakeholders across other professions and organisations ### Skills and aptitudes **Essential** - · Highly specialist knowledge and application of current best practice in oncology, palliative care and complex medicine - · Demonstrates a clear ability to work efficiently and effectively in a multi-disciplinary team - · Demonstrates an understanding of the research/audit/QI processes. - · Demonstrates an understanding of governance requirements in leading a multi-professional therapy team. - · Excellent communication/ interpersonal skills, both written and verbal. - · Excellent negotiation and conflict resolution skills. - · Able to prioritise multiple tasks across a spectrum of urgent and important clinical and non clinical work. - · Ability to manage frequent interruptions of job tasks during the working day. - · Excellent leadership skills. - · Committed to best practice and aware of national standards and evidence. - · Clear understanding of NHS reforms and policies and their impact on the service ### Royal Free World Class Values **Essential** - Demonstrable ability to meet the Trust Values ### Personal Qualities and attributes **Essential** - · Professional attitude - · A commitment to professional development of self and others - · Flexible approach to working based on service needs. - · Ability to frequently cope with working in a stressful environment and support others to do so. - · Innovative and creative thinker ### Education & professional Qualifications **Essential** - · Degree/Diploma in Occupational therapy - · HCPC Registration - · Evidence of Continuous Professional Development - · Postgraduate training or development in clinical skills up to a Masters Degree level or equivalent - · Postgraduate training or development in management/ leadership skills - · Membership of special interest group ## Documents - [job description (pdf, 592.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10286285) - [person specification (pdf, 160.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10286286) - [functional requirements (pdf, 100.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10286287) - [allied health professional - benefits, about rfl, values and governing objectives (pdf, 939.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2752) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.