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St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Acute Therapy Service is recruiting to the STAR therapy team, a B7 Occupational Therapist. Working in the Emergency department, Acute medical unit and short stay ward.
If you have the motivation, enthusiasm and desire to develop your clinical skills, already have excellent communication skills plus the ability to work well and flexibly within a team, we will welcome your application.
We will provide you with excellent clinical support from experienced clinicians in all areas, plus a structured in-service training programme to enable you to develop your clinical and professional skills.
You will participate in late shifts and the weekend service.
Main duties of the job
St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Physiotherapy Service is recruiting a B7 Occupational therapist. Working in our front door therapy team, STAR.
As a Senior Occupational Therapist in a front-door service your role will be to complete assessments, using evidence based clinical decision-making, managing risk, and driving operational patient flow within the Emergency Department (ED) and Acute Medical Unit (AMU).
Completing comprehensive assessments, cognitive assessments for delirium and dementia, head injury screening, assessing for capacity around discharge destination.
Completing onward referrals to community teams neighbourhood teams.
Participating in MDT boardrounds and acting as a therapy voice for the STAR team.
Co-coordinating the daily therapy caseload within ED and AMU to meet critical hospital targets, such as the 4-hour emergency standard.
Supervising B6/5’s therapy techs and students.
Roster and rota management.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
**Please see the attached supporting job description and person specification document, which contains more information about the role and requirements. Please ensure your application refers to the job description and person specification**
** The vacancy may close earlier than the advised date, depending on the volume of applicants**
Person specification
Other
Essential
- • Physically fit and able to comply with Trust Manual Handling Guidelines
- • Able to perform weekend duties
- • Professional demeanour
- • Ability to work as a team member
- • Flexible, Empathic, Compassionate, Reliable, Logical
- • Good communicator
- • Good time management
- • Able to alter their working patterns to include working extended hours, unsociable hours and weekend working. This may be via additional hours or a shift pattern.
Skills
Essential
- • Able to present information, written and orally, in a clear and logical manner
- • Ability to organise, prioritise and delegate
- • Willingness to lead staff training
- • Ability to work with multi-interdisciplinary team and set team goals
- • Ability to comprehend and work within the Trust’s policies of Data Protection, Equal Opportunities and Health & Safety to meet the differing needs of the patients.
- • Ability to keep legible and accurate notes in English in iclip system
- • Show evidence of being self-motivated
- • Able to carry out moderate to intense physical effort throughout the working day and carry out concurrent activities.
- • Ability to cope with working in a stressful and unpredictable environment.
- • Research skills
- • Able to lead and motivate others
Desirable
- • Competent IT skills
- • Presentation skills
- • Ability to run courses – internal/external
- • Supervision of other staff e.g. therapy assistant/technical instructor
Knowledge
Essential
- • Knowledge of complex patient management and frailty
- • Remains updated with professional practice and new research
- • Understand the legal responsibilities of the profession
- • Awareness of skill mix and service needs
- • Understanding of Clinical Governance and the implications for therapy services including experience of quality issues and audit
- • Remains updated on professional practice and new research
Experience
Essential
- • A minimum of 4 years post graduate experience
- • Involvement in clinical audit
- • A minimum of 1 year’s NHS experience (can include undergraduate experience)
- • Broad range of experience at Band 5 and Band 6 level including acute medicine, senior health, neurology, musculoskeletal, and surgery / amputees
- • Participation in out of hours working
- • Knowledge and experience of a wide range of approaches to the rehabilitation and discharge planning of complex patients demonstrated by advanced clinical reasoning
- • Experience of managing other therapy staff
- • Experience of teaching in a clinical setting
- • Experience of student supervision/ clinical education
- • Experience of multidisciplinary team working
Desirable
- • Experience of working in an Emergency Department
- • Experience of working in acute medicine unit
- • Experience of undertaking post graduate research projects
- • Experience of operational team management
- • Experience of service development and change management
- • Experience of lecturing externally
- • Experience of Intermediate Care Team or community working
- • Experience of Social Services equipment provision
- • Committee membership e.g. Heath & Safety, safeguarding, Falls
Qualifications and Training
Essential
- • Diploma / Degree in Occupational Therapy
- • HCPC Registration
- • Evidence of Continued Professional Development including evidence of reflective practice, attendance at recent post graduate courses relevant to the clinical field
- • Masters Degree or evidence of working at an equivalent level
Desirable
- • Recognised post-graduate qualification e.g. MSc in Rehabilitation
- • Membership of relevant Special Interest Groups
- • Leadership Training
- • Post graduate management training
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This advert is for Occupational Therapist-STAR with St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in London, London, England. It is listed as a Band 7 Occupational Therapist role. The advertised salary is £58,133 - £65,261 Per annum including inner london HCAS. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 28 Jul 2026.
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