Senior Occupational Therapist (Mixed Neuro-Medical Rotation)

Job overview

King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has 300+ therapy staff from occupational therapy, physiotherapy and speech and language therapy.  Each service has a head of profession accountable to the chief of therapies who represents therapies across the trust. We focus on equitable provision and shared decision making with our patients. 

We value continuing professional development and promote access to internal and external learning opportunities, including the on-site training facilities and medical school library. This ensures all staff develop skills and knowledge to reach their full potential.

The King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Band 6 Occupational Therapist Medical/Neurological Mixed Rotation offers qualified and experienced occupational therapists an exciting opportunity to work at a more senior level across a number of different clinical areas.

You will be working within our supportive therapy teams to provide high quality occupational therapy assessments and interventions and promote the development and improvement of our services.

The rotation posts are between seven & nine months in duration and are across:

• Acute Medicine Unit
• Stroke
• Health and Ageing Unit
• Hand Therapy
• Critical Care
• Livers
• Cardiology
• Trauma and Orthopaedics
• Neurosciences

Main duties of the job

As a leading teaching hospital, King’s is a dynamic place to work. We pride ourselves on delivering good quality patient care and you will be expected to provide best-practice interventions through evidence-based practice, keeping up-to-date research and ensuring compliance with trust and national policies and procedures. You will identify your learning needs and access internal/ external training and supervision. You will supervise and motivate junior members of staff and students to do the same. Students are regularly on placement from local universities, and this is a fantastic learning opportunity. You will proactively participate and lead CPD sessions through journal clubs, in-service skills training and peer support. You will be forward-thinking and identify areas for service development, completing projects relating to these in each rotation. 

The work environment is fast-paced and you will be responsive to the changing needs of the service.  You will maintain a high standard of autonomous working, completing prioritisation of a caseload and complex assessment and treatment of patients as well as discharge planning. You will display excellent communication skills and partnership working with patients, their families/carers, multi-disciplinary teams, social services and intermediate care.

This post requires a flexible approach to working across sites and a commitment to working weekends on a 7-day working rota.

Working for our organisation

King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s largest and busiest teaching Trusts with a turnover of c£1 billion, 1.5 million patient contacts a year and more than 15,000 staff based across South East London. The Trust provides a full range of local and specialist services across its five sites. The trust-wide strategy of Strong Roots, Global Reach is our Vision to be BOLD, Brilliant people, Outstanding care, Leaders in Research, Innovation and Education, Diversity, Equality and Inclusion at the heart of everything we do. By being person-centred, digitally-enabled, and focused on sustainability, we aim to take Team King’s to another level.

We are at a pivotal point in our history and we require individuals who are ready to join a highly professional team and make a real, lasting difference to our patients and our people.

King’s is committed to delivering Sustainable Healthcare for All via our Green Plan. In line with national Greener NHS ambitions, we have set net zero carbon targets of 2040 for our NHS Carbon Footprint and 2045 for our NHS Carbon Footprint Plus. Everyone’s contribution is required in order to meet the goals set out in our Green Plan and we encourage all staff to work responsibly, minimising their contributions to the Trust’s carbon emissions, waste and pollution wherever possible.