Overview
Main area Occupational Therapy Grade Band 7 Contract Secondment: 9 months (20.25 annualised hours to including rostered weekend working). Hours Part time - 20.25 hours per week (Pro rata per annum). Job ref 200-NN-7398154-AHP-Y.
Employer St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Site St George’s Hospital, Town London. Salary £56,276 - £63,176 per annum including inner london HCAS. Salary period Yearly. Closing 23/09/2025 23:59.
Role
Highly Specialist Occupational Therapist
Band 7
Job overview
This is a part time job share post which forms part of the Band 7 OT neurology rotation and includes stroke care, inpatient level 1 and 2 rehabilitation across St George’s and Queen Marys Hospitals, acute neurology, neurosurgery, NICU and neuro outreach.
The post is initially based within the Level 1 and 2 neurorehabilitation service at Queen Mary’s Hospital.
Main duties of the job
Clinical:
The postholder leads and supports the occupational therapists in the assessment, rehabilitation, functional retraining, and discharge planning of patients. Given the nature of neurology, patients are often highly complex.
Leadership/workforce management:
The position is highly specialised due to its requirement to provide highly specialist advice and clinical treatment support in the assessment/management of patients with complex neurological needs and assist junior team members to manage their caseloads, clinically reason, complete timely referrals and facilitate discharge planning. This post delivers activity in a service with clear specifications around intensity and specialism of rehabilitation as set out by NHS England. Efficient and effective management of this highly complex caseload is required to not only optimise patient outcome but to also reduce length of stay in hospital and the costs of long-term care which can only be achieved through sufficient specialist staffing levels. Outcomes are recorded and compared nationally through the use of the UKROC.
Tariff links:
The level 1 inpatient rehabilitation team covers an 8 bedded unit. Staffing levels for a level 1 unit are clearly defined by NHS England and are integral in order to meet the standards for quantity and quality of care provision.
Working for our organisation
The B7 Highly Specialist Occupational Therapist role is essential in the delivery of clinical services within neurosciences and neurorehabilitation at St George’s Hospital and Queen Marys Hospital, Roehampton. This post leads the delivery of activity within neurosciences with clear specifications around staffing ratios, timeliness of assessment and intensity of rehabilitation, supporting the occupational therapists in the early assessment, early rehabilitation, functional retraining and discharge planning of patients within neurosciences/neurorehabilitation. The role is essential in order to support/facilitate flow and patient care through clinical pathways and the post supports the delivery of 7 day services.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached supporting job description and person specification document, which contains more information about the role and requirements. Please ensure your application refers to the job description and person specification.
Person specification
Qualifications and Training
* Diploma / Degree in Occupational Therapy
* Evidence of Continued Professional Development including evidence of reflective practice, attendance at recent postgraduate courses relevant to the clinical field of neurology
* Post graduate course in management
* Master’s degree or evidence of working at an equivalent level
Experience
* Minimum of 5 years post graduate experience, at least 3 years of which must be in the physical setting
* Minimum of 3 years qualified experience in neuro including stroke and/ TBI
* At least 1 year’s previous NHS experience either as a qualified Occupational Therapist (substantive or locum) or as an undergraduate Occupational Therapy Student
* Knowledge and experience of a wide range of approaches to the management of the neurological patient through advanced clinical reasoning
* Experience of service management and change management
* Recruitment and selection experience
* Team leadership experience
* Clinical Audit / Research
Skills
* Team leadership skills
* Experience of operational and staff management
* Awareness of skill mix and service needs
* Remains updated on professional practice and government initiatives
* Ability to teach OT skills in Neurology
* Ability to organize, prioritise and delegate to a high level
* Working knowledge of roles and interactions with other core members of the MDT
* Working knowledge of splinting/casting/orthotic management in Neurology
* Working knowledge of high level cognitive and perceptual assessments
* Working knowledge of wheelchair and specialist seating systems
* Ability to work under pressure
* Able to work at moderate to high levels of physical activity involving the delivery of manual therapy, therapeutic handling of patients and the assessment, demonstration and installation of adaptations and equipment
* Ability to lead and motivate others
* Ability to work under pressure / accept responsibility
* Good team player
* Flexible working approach
* Clinical audit / research
Knowledge
* Knowledge of current OT and Government initiatives.
* Understand the legal responsibilities of working as a healthcare professional
* Have a good understanding of Clinical Governance and implications for Occupational Therapy practice including experience of quality issues and audit
* Able to work within Trust’s policies of data protection, equal opportunities and Health and Safety to meet the needs of the patients
Other
* Member of SSNP
We expect all our staff to share the values that are important to the trust – being excellent, kind, responsible and respectful – and behave in a way that reflects these. More information on the vision and values of St. George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is attached below.
Please note that this vacancy may close before the advertised closing date if sufficient applicants are received. Please check your email regularly as all candidates shortlisted for interview will be contacted and informed by email.
If you are appointed to the post, as part of your pre-employment check we will be required to verify your identity. The document/s you present for this purpose will be checked for their authenticity by scanning all known security features. These features will include: the machine readable zone, an ultra violet image, an infra red image.
As part of your pre-employment checks, we will also be required to obtain satisfactory, written references. Please ensure that the referee details which you provide on your application form are correct. We require at least one written reference from your current or most recent line manager. We are only able to accept references from a professional work email address.
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You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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