Clinical Specialist Occupational Therapist - Critical Care
A Vacancy at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust.
Occupational therapy within critical care services is a developing clinical field and this is an exciting opportunity to be directly involved in leading the development of the occupational therapy service for critical care for Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust.
We are looking for an enthusiastic, dynamic, forward thinking and committed Clinical Specialist Occupational Therapist in Critical Care and specialist respiratory services.
You will be leading and be responsible for the occupational therapy critical care pathway both at Guys and St Thomas Hospital and the Royal Brompton Hospital. This will also include the operational management of critical care, Lane Fox and Remeo long term respiratory support units.
You will be leading a team of occupational therapists at both sites and providing expert occupational therapy input to critical care inpatients and the post critical care recovery outpatient clinic. You will require excellent proven clinical and people management skills.
Our aim is to be patient centred, research driven and clinically lead by highly experienced staff. You will be responsible for managing your own highly complex and varied caseload with supervision of junior staff, service development, quality improvement and audit.
We have a strong commitment to quality improvement, research and audits, and are looking for someone with extensive knowledge of current government and clinical drivers with the experience to support on-going service transformation.- To provide an expert occupational therapy service to a specialist and complex caseload of critical carepatients including in-patients and post critical care follow up clinic.
- To co-ordinate and take responsibility for the day to day running of occupational therapystaff delivering the in-patient critical care and outpatient critical care follow up clinic and Lane Fox/ Remeo unit services on the St Thomas’ Hospital site, including supervision, appraisal and caseload monitoring.
- To lead, develop and support staff within the critical care service, leading on service improvements and relevant initiatives and contribute to the development of expert occupational therapy services in critical care.
- To manage the most complex caseload withincritical care, using advanced clinical reasoning, critical thinking, reflection and analysis to support assessments using a client centred approach.
- To act as an expert occupational therapist to the critical care service.
- To participate in weekly team meetings and where appropriate propose, develop and assist in the implementation of policy/ service development initiatives.
- To lead a designated team of occupational therapists providing leadership for senior and junior staff through supervision and performance management.
We are one of the largest teaching Hospital Trusts in the UK, employing over 100 Occupational Therapy staff. As well as providing a full range of hospital services for our local communities in Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham, the Trust provides specialist services for patients from further afield, including cancer, cardiothoracic, renal and children’s services in Europe.
Occupational Therapy is part of the Therapies Directorate with a supportive and progressive management structure. Departmental objectives are founded upon the core principles and pillars of the clinical governance framework and the Trust-wide objectives.Multi-disciplinary working within the Trust is well-established.
Students are accepted on placement from several training schools. The Department has structured in-service training and personal development programmes. Staff are encouraged to attend courses to continue their clinical development and participate in multi-disciplinary audit and research.You will be working in a rewarding and challenging clinical setting.
At Guys and St Thomas' our vision is to be "A world leader in caring for people with cancer - continuously innovating to improve the lives of our patients ". The Trusts place great value on the contribution of Supportive Care Services to the patient’s pathway and this is reflected in our Occupational Therapy Service delivery.
- To be responsible for providing the most complex individual assessments to critical care patients, managing the most complex cases addressing occupational performance skills, patterns, context or contexts and activity demands in collaboration with patients and carers.
- To undertake, and act as a source of expertise in providing occupational therapy specialist multi-needs assessments using complex and advanced clinical reasoning demonstrating critical thinking, reflection and analysis to develop individual goal and task oriented treatment plans.
- To carry out the most complex physical, cognitive and functional assessments and treatments using motor, sensory and cognitive skills to facilitate and promote functional independence.
- To prepare and disseminate reports and data including highly sensitive information regarding clinical examination and prognostic indicators for functional performance to vulnerable groups of patients.
- To undertake specialist standardised and non-standardised assessments to support advanced clinical interventions in critical care.
- To commit to evidence based practice and to use research opportunities to support the efficacy of therapeutic interventions.
- To fabricate static splints for the management of upper limb conditions in critical care.
Please refer to the attached job description for details
This advert closes on Wednesday 12 Mar 2025