# Specialist Occupational Therapist

**Company**: Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
**Location**: London
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: contract
**Salary**: £47,951 to £56,863 a year
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are seeking two enthusiastic and motivated Specialist Occupational Therapists to join the innovative @home Service, one of London's largest Urgent Community Response teams.

The @home Service delivers rapid assessment, intervention and rehabilitation to support people with urgent and complex health and social care needs to remain safely at home, helping to avoid unnecessary hospital admissions and support discharge from acute services.

As a Specialist Occupational Therapist, you will provide specialist occupational therapy assessment, intervention and care planning within patients' homes, managing a varied caseload as part of a larger integrated multidisciplinary team.

**Main duties of the job**

- Provide case management for adults and older people through intensive short-term support and rehabilitation, engaging in patient-centred and inclusive goals setting aimed at maximising their independence in the community.

- Work across traditional professional boundaries; liaising with health and social care professionals and voluntary agencies to deliver individualised and expert patient centred care to a high standard.

- Work both autonomously and collaboratively with colleagues across health and social care to ensure seamless, coordinated care and positive patient experiences in patients' homes.

- You will have supervisory, teaching and training responsibilities for the Nursing Rehab Support Workers, Allied Health Students, and the wider multidisciplinary team.

- Active participation in evidence-based projects, departmental research and audits including recommendations for changes in practice as required and in line with current NHS directives.

- Maintain ongoing professional development across the four pillars of practice through supervision, reflection, and multidisciplinary working; and adhering to standards set out by Health and Care Professions Council and Royal College of Occupational Therapists.

**What we offer**

- Collaborative Environment: Work alongside passionate health and social care professionals, committed to patient-centred care

- Continuous Growth: Contribute to expanding and improving urgent community response services within Lambeth and Southwark

- Career development: Access opportunities for professional and personal development within a supportive team

- Meaningful impact: Make a real difference to people with urgent and complex needs

- Supportive Leadership: Benefit from the guidance and mentorship of experienced therapy leads

## Skills

### Required
- Occupational Therapy
- patient-centred care
- clinical reasoning
- communication skills
- teamwork

### Nice to have
- community experience
- triage experience
- research/Audit process
- previous experience in urgent/rapid response

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