# Frailty Team Lead Occupational Therapist > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/frailty-team-lead-occupational-therapist/ec448c01-f306-402d-97ac-74dd82859ed8 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/frailty-team-lead-occupational-therapist/ec448c01-f306-402d-97ac-74dd82859ed8.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Kingston Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Occupational Therapist - **Grade:** Band 7 - **Salary:** £55,524 - £62,652 pro rata pa incl. HCAS - **Contract type:** Permanent: 7 day working - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week (7 day working) - **Closing date:** 2026-10-27T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-10-13T15:00:19.513Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/Kingston_upon_Thames/Kingston_Richmond_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Frailty_Team_Lead_Occupational_Therapist/Frailty_Team_Lead_Occupational_Therapist-v8326040 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8326040?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.kingstonandrichmond.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview The post holder will be an autonomous practitioner, providing specialist occupational therapy assessment and intervention to clients within the emergency department and acute assessment unit with a focus on frailty, early intervention and, where practical, prevention of hospital admission for those who do not require an acute inpatient stay. The post holder is responsible for managing a caseload of clients with complex needs, whilst contributing to safe, multidisciplinary team discharge planning to support patient flow in an acute setting. In addition to their clinical responsibilities the post holder will lead the ongoing development of this service with assistance from the Frailty consultant lead, Frailty operational lead and inpatient occupational therapy operational lead, and in line with local and national clinical guidelines. They will also be responsible for planning and delivering high quality teaching to Occupational Therapists, students and other professionals, whilst maintaining their own professional and highly specialist knowledge base related to admission avoidance and frailty. The post holder will work 37.5 hours per week as part of the seven-day service ### Main duties of the job KEY RESPONSIBILITIES/OUTCOMES Clinical/Professional: - Able to work as an autonomous practitioner who is professionally and legally accountable for all aspects of own clinical and professional work, including the management of patients in your care; 2. In collaboration with the Advanced Nurse Practitioner Lead, to be responsible for the overall Occupational Therapy & Physiotherapy caseload by managing service capacity and demand, and ensuring service delivery is carried out in an efficient and timely manner based on priorities and pressures; 3. Able to prioritise and plan own workload to manage conflicting and competing priorities, both clinically and non-clinically. To facilitate this skill in others; 4. To manage a caseload of complex cases within the defined Admission Avoidance & Frailty clinical areas whilst supporting the clinical reasoning and practice of other occupational therapists, physiotherapists, technicians and assistants under your line management; Continued on attached JD... ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities ***Please see the attached supporting document/s (JD) which contains more information about the role in the job description and person specification*** Note: ensure any supporting statements align with the job description and person specification, as your application will be assessed against these criteria. ### 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. ## Person Specification ### Experience **Essential** - Previous NHS or equivalent healthcare experience - Working in MDT setting - Relevant experience as a junior therapist in acute or community setting including rotations working in medical and ITU/surgery, orthopaedics and Elderly Care/Frailty and rapid response etc. - Working knowledge of a broad range of medical conditions and frailty syndromes - Experience in managing complex discharges and taking positive risk (eg. Safeguarding, mental capacity, best interest meetings etc) **Desirable** - 4 years clinical experiece - Involvement in audit, research and understanding quality issues - Experience working in A&E, ED, AAU, CDU ### Managerial **Essential** - Experience of supervision of junior staff and/or students - Demonstrate good time management and organisation **Desirable** - Involvement in service development ### Qualifications **Essential** - OT degree - HCPC registration **Desirable** - Special interest group membership ### Skills and Abilities **Essential** - Remain updated with professional practice and new research - Able to present information, written and orally, in a clear and logical manner - Ability to organise, prioritise and delegate - Team work and presentation skills - To have a good knowledge of acute discharge planning - Ability to initiate and understand assessment of activities of daily living to identify care and/or equipment needs. ## Documents - [jd (pdf, 280.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10691150) - [ai toolkit for candidates (pdf, 1.9mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=2412) ## 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.