Highly Specialist Occupational Therapist

Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust; London; On-site; GBP 51,000 - 59,000; Full time

Job summary

Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust is seeking a Highly Specialist Occupational Therapist for a permanent full-time role based at Finchley Memorial Hospital. The successful candidate will provide expert community care, lead service improvements, and collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to enhance patient outcomes. Ideal applicants should possess advanced clinical skills, a strong leadership outlook, and the ability to assess and treat complex cases in a community setting.

Benefits

Comprehensive induction

Car lease scheme

Flexible working options

Training support and development

Qualifications

• Minimum 4 years post-registration experience at Band 6 level in various clinical areas.
• Experience in community and multidisciplinary work.
• Evidence of CPD relevant to treatment of physical and cognitive disabilities.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist occupational therapy care to community patients.
• Lead service development and quality assurance.
• Conduct robust patient triage and manage complex caseloads.

Skills

Advanced communication skills

Clinical reasoning

Leadership skills

Teamwork

Education

Degree in relevant clinical area

HPC registration

MSC in appropriate clinical area

Job description

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Highly Specialist Occupational Therapist

Band 7

Main area Occupational Therapist Grade Band 7 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week Job ref 824-NORTH-7074391-C

Site Finchley Memorial Hospital Town London Salary £51,883 - £58,544 per annum inclusive of HCAS Salary period Yearly Closing 26/06/2025 23:59

Central London Community Healthcare (CLCH) is one of the largest community healthcare organisations in London and Hertfordshire, providing our services to diverse communities/boroughs in 11 London Boroughs - Barnet, Brent, Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham, Harrow, Hounslow, Kensington and Chelsea, Merton, Richmond, Wandsworth, Westminster - and Hertfordshire.

We are rated Good by the Care Quality Commission and are ranked among top NHS employers. Community healthcare is our focus and our passion. We champion the role of community health professionals to make sure our patients get great care closer to home.

Job overview

Are you a Band 7 or an experienced Band 6 Occupational Therapist interested in a Band 7 role?

We are looking for a specialist, dynamic and motivated Occupational Therapist with excellent clinical skills and a positive attitude and commitment to providing excellent holistic community-based care.

The candidate will join the established Barnet Unplanned Care Therapy Team, covering the London Borough of Barnet, working alongside a multidisciplinary team to deliver holistic and coordinated care to patients.

The post-holder will join the team based at Finchley Memorial Hospital, to support community patients.

You will be expected to work as an integral part of the Rapid Response/D2A/NWB and Hospital at Home Service to deliver high quality, evidence based occupational therapy intervention.

The role will provide leadership in the development and ongoing quality assurance of the service, undertaking evaluation, audit and contributing to research.

You will be key in being part of service development and support the team to strive for clinical excellence.

Main duties of the job

Experience of working within a community team

Work as a highly skilled senior practitioner with expert knowledge and work alongside clinical operational manager to develop the service

Providing highly specialist occupational therapy care to a community based caseload

Carrying out robust triage of patients referred to the team to ensure their safety and optimal pathway allocation

Ability to provide leadership within the occupational therapy and wider team.

Experience of line management and supervising others Supporting and deputising for the Clinical Lead and Operational manager of the service

Opportunities to take the lead on service improvement opportunities, develop your managerial skills and suggest and lead on audit and research projects.

Highly motivated, passionate and enthusiastic team player with a positive attitude and commitment to providing excellent holistic care and evidence based interventions.

Having full UK driving licence and access to car for work are essential

Working for our organisation

Just as we care about our patients’ wellbeing, we care about yours!

We can offer you:

• A comprehensive induction into the community service followed by a local induction to introduce you to the role
• Car lease scheme *T&C’s apply
• Flexible working options
• Training, support and development in your career

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to Job description and person specification for outline of skills, knowledge and experience required.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Educated to degree level with appropriate post graduate qualification in relevant clinical area
• HPC registration
• Evidence Of CPD relevant to the treatment of people with physical and cognitive disabilities
• Member of OT specialist interest group that is, Specialist section in older adults.
• MSC in appropriate clinical area.
• Leadership / management training

Experience

• Minimum of 4 years post registration experience at band 6 level in a wide range of clinical areas that is, management of chronic LT conditions, respiratory, cardiac, community rehabilitation and neuro
• Experience of Community and multidisciplinary work
• Postgraduate experience of working in an inter- professional and multi-agency team
• Managing complex caseloads
• Good knowledge of the Mental Health Act and other legislation
• Experience of clinical risk management
• Experience of working as an independent clinician whilst providing a clinical lead for senior and junior staff
• Experience in teaching and training
• Leading service and development change
• Experience of working with social services
• Experience of research and clinical audit
• Experience of successful project management within a clinical area
• Experience representing Occupational Therapy at management/strategic level in Trust meetings and external forums.

Skills and Knowledge

• Advanced skills in the assessment and treatment of people with complex multi-pathologies and chronic LT conditions
• Highly specialist evidence-based knowledge of relevant conditions within the speciality, their symptoms and effect on function
• Advanced knowledge and understanding of complex medical conditions and their relation to people who experience long Covid symptoms
• Demonstrate highly developed visual acuity and perceptual skills through the ability to identify a client’s cognitive, perceptual, neurological and musculo skeletal deficits through observation of everyday tasks,
• Ability to apply core OT skills across a range of clinical conditions within a patient centred, goal setting approach
• Knowledge and understanding of National and local frameworks and guidelines for older people.
• Knowledge of outcome measures and evidence-based practice associated with people with physical disabilities
• Ability to problem solve, prioritise and demonstrate advanced clinical reasoning
• Advanced communication and report writing skills, in both verbal and written format
• Skills in supervision and appraisal of assistants, junior therapists and students
• Presentation skills appropriate for teaching of junior staff, students and peers in in service training setting
• Knowledge and understanding of clinical governance
• An understanding of the importance of involving service users in their treatment and in service development
• Knowledge of research and audit processes
• Knowledge of project management including planning, implementation and review

Other

• Ability to self-motivate and innovate
• Ability to work as a team member
• Ability to be flexible and adaptable
• Appropriate level of physical fitness to perform the job (as outlined in the job description) with or without adaptations
• Hold a full, valid, UK driving licence and have access to a car to use for business purposes (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010)

Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts we may close this vacancy before the advertised closing date. Therefore please apply for this post as soon as you can, if you are interested and you meet the requirements of the Person Specification.

Only those candidates who clearly demonstrate how they meet the person specification will be shortlisted for this job.

Interview arrangements will be communicated via email so please check your email regularly following the closing date.

At CLCH we appreciate and are proud of the diversity in the communities we serve and the workforce we employ. Applications are open and welcome to anyone, regardless of your age, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, ethnicity, religion, and disability.

We are proud to say that we follow the workforce race equality standard and 28% of our senior staff (8A and above) are from a BAME background. CLCH also has active BAME and LGBTQI networks:

Disability and Wellbeing Network (DAWN)

Race Equality Network

Rainbow Network which supports LGBTQI staff.

Each network has a champion who is an executive director at the Trust and they hold regular meetings to discuss issues and make plans to improve CLCH.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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.

Application numbers

This vacancy may close early if it receives a high number of applications. Please complete and submit your applications on time to avoid disappointment.