# Highly Specialist Occupational Therapist > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/highly-specialist-occupational-therapist/ca6093ef-dfb2-4ff6-9340-cbeeb9bd4f0b - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/highly-specialist-occupational-therapist/ca6093ef-dfb2-4ff6-9340-cbeeb9bd4f0b.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** St Thomas' Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Occupational Therapist - **Grade:** Band 7 - **Salary:** £58,133 - £65,261 p.a. inc HCA (pro rata) - **Contract type:** Fixed term: 9 months (Maternity Leave cover. 9 month contract from start date of employment.) - **Employment type:** Part time - 30 hours per week (Shifts over a 7 day working week. Minimum 1 weekend per 4 week rota period.) - **Closing date:** 2026-10-28T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-10-13T00:02:12.767Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/London/Guys_St_Thomas_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Urgent_Community_Response/Urgent_Community_Response-v8347779 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8347779?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.guysandstthomas.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview - WTE | Fixed-Term 9-Month Contract (Maternity Leave Cover) Are you an experienced Band 7 Occupational Therapist or Physiotherapist with a background in urgent response, admission avoidance, acute medicine, or emergency care? Do you enjoy autonomous decision-making, managing clinical complexity, and demonstrating leadership within dynamic multidisciplinary team? The @home Service is at the forefront of community healthcare transformation, delivering rapid assessment and intervention to support people with complex and urgent health and social needs to remain safely at home. Working in line with the NHS vision for integrated community care, we provide responsive, high-quality care that reduces unnecessary hospital admissions. We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated clinician with advanced assessment, clinical reasoning, and risk management skills. As a senior member of the team, you will demonstrate advanced assessment and clinical reasoning, provide clinical leadership, contribute to service development, and support colleagues through shared learning and professional expertise. This role is ideally suited to an ambitious clinician who is passionate about innovative community practice and thrives in a fast-paced environment. If you are looking for an opportunity to make a real impact and utilise your clinical and leadership skills within a forward-thinking urgent community response service, we would love to hear from you. ### Main duties of the job Provide Occupational Therapy/Physiotherapy assessment, intervention, and care planning for patients in the community, delivering high-quality, person-centred care within professional scope. Work both autonomously and collaboratively with colleagues across health and social care to ensure seamless, coordinated care and positive patient experiences in patients’ homes. Demonstrate strong clinical judgement in triaging referrals, prioritising resources, and ensuring timely allocation of care based on clinical need. Undertake the Therapist in Charge role, providing clinical leadership, oversight of the therapy caseload, and supporting safe, effective service delivery. Supervise and line manage junior therapists and support workers, offering professional support, clinical guidance, and student mentorship. Act as a senior therapy resource, supporting complex case management, shared learning, and workforce development. Contribute to service improvement, audit, research, and evidence-based practice initiatives to enhance quality and outcomes. Maintain ongoing professional development across the four pillars of practice through supervision, reflection, and multidisciplinary working. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Please refer to the full job description for a comprehensive summary of the essential and desirable criteria for this role. Main headings include: - Professional and clinical responsibilities - Communication - Service Development - Research / Audit / Quality - Staff management and Leadership - Education and Training Personal and professional development key relationships include Deputy Head of Nursing, Deputy Chief AHP, Therapy Lead Practitioners, Service Lead and Deputy Service Leads and Matrons, Clinical Nurse Specialists and Practitioners, Allied Health Professionals, @home GPs, Consultants and Junior Medical Staff, Social Workers and Social Services, Nursing and Rehabilitation Support Workes, Practice Development Nurses, and various community and acute therapy and nursing teams. General points to note: This job may involve frequent exposure to unpleasant working conditions, e.g. bodily fluids, unpleasant smells, exposure to variant weather conditions, and within a fast-paced environment. Being community-based, you will visit patients in their own homes across Lambeth and Southwark. Travel within the boroughs can be achieved by public transport and/or trust-provided or your personal vehicle for those holding a valid UK driving licence. ### 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 ### Skills **Essential** - Demonstrated ability to manage a complex and constantly changing workload of clinical and non-clinical duties demonstrating excellent time management, prioritisation and organisational skills - Ability to manage risk appropriately, applying clinical reasoning and critical analysis to support decision making - Able to develop effective therapeutic and working relationships, demonstrating empathy, active listening and motivational skills - Ability to use an evidence-based approach including clinical outcome measures to evaluate outcomes - Ability to adopt innovative and flexible working practices and lead and implement successful change management - Knowledge and application of a wide range of approaches to manage patient complexity, demonstrated by advanced clinical reasoning - Understanding of Clinical Governance and the implications for services including experience in quality improvement and audit - Demonstrated advanced clinical reasoning and assessment, including complex patients **Desirable** - Knowledge of current national policies and directives relevant to intermediate care and UCR ### Experience **Essential** - Experience of working with adults and older people with chronic conditions and complex co-morbidities - Post-graduate/rehabilitation experience at minimum Band 6 in all core areas: neurology, orthopedics, respiratory, and care of the elderly - Experience in devising, delivering and evaluating training both within the service and to other agencies - Extensive experience in the application of manual handling techniques in line with Manual Handling Guidelines. - Demonstrated experience in line management, supervision, mentoring and education of junior therapists and AHP students **Desirable** - Previous experience in urgent/rapid response, A&E, acute medicine or similar ### Qualifications/Knowledge **Essential** - Recognised Occupational Therapy/Physiotherapy degree qualification or equivalent - Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) registration - Recognised post-graduate qualification in specialist clinical area **Desirable** - Member of relevant Clinical Interest Group e.g. RCOT, CSP, other related to specialist clinical area ## Documents - [highly specialist ot jd (pdf, 280.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10672791) - [highly specialist physio jd (pdf, 180.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10683768) - [highly specialist b7 therapist (pdf, 168.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10683767) - [highly specialist b7 therapist ps (pdf, 188.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10683809) ## 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.