# Frailty Team Lead Occupational Therapist

**Company**: Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust
**Location**: Kingston upon Thames
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: permanent
**Salary**: £55,524 to £62,652 a year pro rata pa incl. HCAS
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

The Frailty Team Lead Occupational Therapist will work autonomously, providing specialist occupational therapy assessments and interventions to clients in the emergency department and acute assessment unit, focusing on frailty, early intervention, and prevention of hospital admission.

The post holder will manage a caseload of complex clients, contribute to multidisciplinary team discharge planning, and lead the ongoing development of the service in line with local and national clinical guidelines.

Key responsibilities include:

- Working as an autonomous practitioner, professionally and legally accountable for own clinical and professional work

- Managing service capacity and demand, ensuring efficient and timely service delivery

- Prioritising and planning own workload, facilitating this skill in others

- Managing a caseload of complex cases, supporting clinical reasoning and practice of other occupational therapists, physiotherapists, technicians, and assistants

- Planning and delivering high-quality teaching to occupational therapists, students, and other professionals

The trust offers a supportive environment for professional and personal development, including an on-site staff nursery, wellbeing practitioners, regular wellbeing classes, and a dedicated staff physiotherapist.

The salary for this post is £55,524 to £62,652 per annum, pro-rata.

## Skills

### Required
- Occupational Therapy
- Autonomous Practice
- Discharge Planning
- Multidisciplinary Teamworking
- Teaching and Training

### Nice to have
- Special interest group membership
- Involvement in service development
- Audit and research experience
- Experience working in A&E, ED, AAU, CDU

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