# Static Occupational Therapist

**Company**: Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
**Location**: London
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: mid
**Salary**: £47951.00 to £56863.00
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are seeking an experienced Band 5 Occupational Therapist or a Band 6 looking to develop your clinical and leadership skills to join our Acute Medical Therapy Team at Homerton University Hospital.

The successful candidate will manage a varied and complex caseload across specialties including respiratory and cardiovascular medicine, endocrinology, haematology, and gastroenterology. You will deliver patient-centred assessment and rehabilitation, promote independence, and support safe, timely discharge.

Key responsibilities:

- Provide specialist Occupational Therapy for a wide range of patients requiring assessment, rehabilitation, and complex discharge planning on the acute inpatient wards.

- Work as an autonomous practitioner managing a complex caseload, using advanced clinical reasoning, risk assessment, and decision-making skills.

- Provide specialist Occupational Therapy for a wide range of patients requiring rehabilitation.

- Act as an experienced clinician within the team, providing day-to-day clinical support, guidance, and supervision to Band 5 Occupational Therapists, Therapy Assistants, and Students.

- Support the operational delivery of the service through contributing to prioritisation, patient flow, and discharge planning, including deputising for the band 7 Occupational Therapist as appropriate.

Benefits:

- Competitive salary: £47,951 to £56,863 per annum

- Permanent, full-time position

- Opportunities for professional development and growth

Requirements:

- Degree/Diploma in Occupational Therapy

- HCPC registration

- Ability to manage a clinical caseload independently

- Complex level of discharge planning and hospital flow management

- Range of assessment and treatment skills

- Sound IT skills

## Skills

### Required
- Occupational Therapy
- clinical reasoning
- risk assessment
- decision-making
- discharge planning

### Nice to have
- outcome measures
- QI / Clinical audit
- experience of working in a diverse socio-economic/multicultural society

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