# Lead Allied Healthcare Professional / Occupational Therapist > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/lead-allied-healthcare-professional-occupational-therapist/4ce30847-0d8a-470c-a341-e2ced457ed82 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/lead-allied-healthcare-professional-occupational-therapist/4ce30847-0d8a-470c-a341-e2ced457ed82.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** King's College Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Occupational Therapist - **Grade:** Band 8 - **Salary:** £66,274 - £73,496 pro rata, per annum inc HCA's - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Part time - 30 hours per week (At least three days on site covering all sites of the Trust) - **Closing date:** 2026-09-23T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-09-09T16:10:29.548Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/London/Kings_College_Hospital_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Occupational_Health/Occupational_Health-v8285337 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8285337?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.kch.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview The Band 8a Occupational Health AHP Lead is a senior clinical and managerial role responsible for the leadership, governance and development of the Occupational Health Therapy service within the organisation. The post holder provides day‑to‑day operational and strategic management of the Therapy Team, acts as the clinical lead for specialist therapy services within Occupational Health, and delivers high‑quality, evidence‑based therapeutic interventions, including the assessment and treatment of a highly complex personal caseload across a variety of settings. Working collaboratively with other healthcare professionals and senior AHP partners, the post holder provides professional and operational supervision to the therapies team and ensures access to appropriate specialist supervision for themselves and their staff. The role contributes to the overall success of the Occupational Health, Wellbeing & Staff Psychology department by ensuring Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) are met, service outcomes are monitored, and continuous learning and development is embedded within the team, subject to available funding. The post requires a flexible approach to working, including the ability to undertake weekend commitments when required, to meet service demands. The post holder must have access to a car for business purposes and have a full, clean UK driver's licence. ### Main duties of the job Clinical Responsibilities - Manage and deliver a highly complex personal caseload within Occupational Health and Wellbeing (OHW), including assessment, intervention planning and monitoring of complex conditions; senior clinician for the most complex cases. - Provide highly specialist Occupational Health advice to patients/clients, carers and other health professionals, including expert input linked to clinical governance considerations. - Develop and coordinate delivery of specialist programmes of care across Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy services. - Complete outreach and project‑based clinical work aligned to Trust priorities (e.g. hotspot initiatives). - Apply advanced professional knowledge gained through degree‑level education and postgraduate or Master’s‑equivalent training to specialist practice. Leadership - Provide professional and operational leadership for the Occupational Health Therapy team. - Coordinate supervision and appraisal of senior and junior therapy staff in line with local guidelines. - Provide oversight of junior staff clinical delivery, including observation of assessments where required. - Review and reflect on own practice through professional and operational supervision. - Contribute to national‑level guidance for Occupational Health and Work‑focused Therapists. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Please see the Job Description and Person Specification Being an exemplar and educator: - Coordinate professional therapy student placement programmes and associated financial reimbursement. - Provide supervision and written assessment of Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy students on practice placement. - Coordinate and teach the therapy in‑service training programme. - Contribute to coordination and teaching within Occupational Health departmental meetings and clinical governance programmes. - Provide training to less experienced staff, healthcare professionals or carers within the specialist area. - Contribute to induction and training of profession‑specific and multidisciplinary staff. - Deliver university‑level and national teaching activity as required (e.g. twice‑yearly presentations for OT/Physiotherapy students). ### Applicant requirements You must have appropriate UK professional registration. The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions. ## Person Specification ### Skills and Competencies **Essential** - Extensive skills in using OT models of practice, standardised assessments (e.g. Neurological and Cognitive Assessments – PDRR, MoCA etc), using outcome measures, ability to analyse and evaluate the application of therapies related treatment. Ability to analyse professional and ethical issues. - Knowledge of Health & Social Care legislation and current practice. Application of Health & Safety Risk Management policy. Detailed knowledge of the principles of clinical governance and its application ### Knowledge and Experience **Essential** - Expert level knowledge and experience of performing functional assessments; enabling a patient to return to work. Significant experience of working in an NHS Occupational Health setting. - Expert level knowledge and experience in teaching functional assessments to members of the MDT - Excellent communication skills to wide range of stakeholders, including external contracts and People Directorate/HR colleagues - Supervision of junior staff and students. - Experience of audit and research procedures. **Desirable** - Leadership and first line management experience. ### Education and Qualifications **Essential** - Degree in Occupational Therapy. - Practice placement qualification. ## Documents - [denmark hill site map (pdf, 1.2mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=606) - [princess royal (pruh) site map (pdf, 1.4mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=607) - [agenda for change salary 26-27 (pdf, 44.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=3032) - [visa and sponsorship information (pdf, 344.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2817) - [lead ahp/ot _occupational health, wellbeing and staff psychology (pdf, 632.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10602484) ## 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.