Specialist Occupational Therapist

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust; London; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading healthcare provider in London as a Specialist Occupational Therapist, empowering adults to live independently. You'll work in diverse community settings, utilizing your clinical expertise to improve patients' quality of life, while benefiting from outstanding professional development opportunities within a supportive team.

Benefits

Comprehensive training and development opportunities

Financial wellbeing support

Recognition initiatives

Qualifications

• Experience in community rehabilitation settings.
• Ability to design tailored rehab plans.
• Supervision and education of junior staff.

Responsibilities

• Perform specialised Occupational Therapy assessments.
• Support the service's commitment to client needs.
• Deliver excellence in patient care.

Skills

Problem Solving

Clinical Expertise

Holistic Mindset

Empathy

Education

Occupational Therapy Degree

Job description

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Ready to take the next step in your OT journey? Join our friendly and forward-thinking Community Rehab and Falls Team as a Band 6 Occupational Therapist, where no two days are the same.

You’ll be working at the heart of our South London communities, using your clinical expertise to empower adults to live safely, independently, and with purpose in their own homes. Whether it’s helping someone return to cooking their favourite meal or regain confidence after a fall, your work will make a genuine, lasting impact.

This isn’t your standard 9-5 desk job. You’ll be out in Brixton, Streatham, and Oval, Peckham and Dulwich supporting clients with a wide range of complex needs—physical, cognitive, and functional—using creative, evidence-based approaches. Your problem-solving skills and holistic mindset will be put to good use as you design tailored rehab plans that meet real-life goals.

You’ll also be part of our award-winning “Showing We Care About You” programme at Guy's and St Thomas Trust, which offers a wide range of benefits designed to support your whole self. From financial wellbeing and career development, to recognition initiatives and work-life balance support, we’re committed to helping you thrive both professionally and personally.

As part of King’s Health Partners, one of the UK’s leading centres for hospital and community-based care, research, and education, you’ll have access to outstanding training and development opportunities.

The Community Rehabilitation and Falls Service is part of the Integrated Local Services directorate. It delivers physiotherapy and occupational therapy to adults and older people with illness, injury or disability, helping them to be more independent in their daily activities.

The clients have a wide range of functional difficulties, long-term conditions and disabilities and many have multiple pathologies and complex medical conditions. They may be seen in a 14 bed Intermediate Care Unit, in their own homes and in health and community centres within Lambeth and Southwark. The service leads the provision of Falls prevention and management of clients within both boroughs providing individual and group exercise programmes

The post holder will mainly work from one of the sites: Pulross Centre, Whittington Centre in Lambeth or Townley Road Health Centre in Southwark, but will be expected to work from other centres/locations within the boroughs of Lambeth and Southwark as required.

Job Summary

Perform specialised Occupational Therapy assessments and treatments in the community as a part of Community Rehab and Falls Service.

Support the service's commitment to meeting client needs and delivering excellence.

Be responsible for supervision, education and assessment of students and new/junior members of staff.

Guys And St. Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust

From our 5 main hospitals, and in the community, we provide a full range of lifelong, general and specialist care, as well as clinical research, innovation, education and training.

We're a diverse and welcoming organisation, and are incredibly proud of our 25,500 staff and the dedication they show to our patients and each other.

We aim to be outstanding in everything we do and to provide high quality and compassionate care and experience to all of our patients and families.

As a leading centre of clinical research with a long history of innovation and medical firsts, we are able to provide the latest and most advanced treatments. We're ranked top in England for the number of trials open for patients to join and in the top 10 for the number of patients recruited to help us in our research.

Together with our partners in King's Health Partners, we form 1 of the UK's 8 Academic Health Science Centres.

Our world famous teaching hospitals train the doctors, nurses and healthcare professionals of the future. GKT School of Medical Education is our medical school, run jointly with King's College London and King's College Hospital.

We're guided by our values in everything we do and, as one of the largest employers in London, we reflect the diversity, opportunity and ambition of our communities and the people we serve.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Olivia Africa Job title: Clinical Specialist Occupational Therapist Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 02030494558

Mobile number: 07701221220 - Olivia Africa OT

Mobile number : 07836650715 - Hannah Hubbard OT

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Entry level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Health Care Provider

• Industries

  Hospitals and Health Care

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