Senior Specialist Occupational Therapist

We have an exciting and unique opportunity to join our General Medicine and Older Persons Team at St Thomas' Hospital as a Band 7 Occupational Therapist.This post sits within a supportive occupational therapy management structure which welcomes innovation and quality improvement whilst prioritising staff well-being.

You will need to be enthusiastic and flexible with excellent communication skills to manage a varied and interesting role. We are looking for a motivated clinician who will contribute to helping us to lead the way in defining a new Occupational Therapy role within the OPU/medicine pathway that will focus on those discharges that can be managed within a short time frame.

The successful candidate will have responsibility for overseeing the inpatient caseload which will include provision of holistic and client centred occupational therapy assessment and intervention. This post will allow you to develop and utilise your specialist clinical skills in the management of people with complex health, rehabilitation and social care needs whilst providing you with an excellent opportunity to develop your leadership skills, expand your professional development and participate in the wider local and national agenda's for acute medicine and older people.