# Highly Specialist Occupational Therapist

**Company**: Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
**Location**: London
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: temporary
**Salary**: £58133.00 to £65261.00
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated clinician with advanced assessment, clinical reasoning, and risk management skills to join our @home Service, which delivers rapid assessment and intervention to support people with complex and urgent health and social needs to remain safely at home.

The successful candidate will be a senior member of the team, demonstrating advanced assessment and clinical reasoning, providing clinical leadership, contributing to service development, and supporting colleagues through shared learning and professional expertise.

Key responsibilities include:

- Providing Occupational Therapy/Physiotherapy assessment, intervention, and care planning for patients in the community

- Working autonomously and collaboratively with colleagues across health and social care

- Demonstrating strong clinical judgement in triaging referrals and prioritising resources

- Undertaking the Therapist in Charge role and providing clinical leadership

- Supervising and line managing junior therapists and support workers

- Contributing to service improvement, audit, research, and evidence-based practice initiatives

The @home Service operates seven days a week, with therapists participating in a four-week rota that includes weekend working. This 0.8 WTE fixed-term role would be expected to work predominantly between 08:00 and 18:30.

We offer a collaborative environment, opportunities for professional and personal development, and the chance to make a real difference to people with urgent and complex needs.

The salary range for this post is £58,133 to £65,261 per annum.

## Skills

### Required
- advanced assessment and clinical reasoning
- risk management
- clinical leadership
- team management
- communication and interpersonal skills
- ability to work autonomously and collaboratively
- manual handling techniques
- evidence-based practice

### Nice to have
- previous experience in urgent/rapid response, A&E, acute medicine or similar
- knowledge of current national policies and directives relevant to intermediate care and UCR

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