Clinical Lead Occupational Therapist - Critical Care

King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has 300+ therapy staff from occupational therapy, physiotherapy and speech and language therapy. Each service has a head of profession accountable to the chief of therapies who represents therapies across the trust. We focus on equitable provision and shared decision making with our patients.

We value continuing professional development to ensure all staff develop skills and knowledge to reach their full potential. You will be encouraged and supported to develop your clinical and teaching skills and become involved with in-service development.

This is an exciting opportunity to lead the Critical Care Occupational Therapy Team at King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Denmark Hill site. The role requires an experienced occupational therapist with expert knowledge of managing critically ill patients and post-intensive care syndrome. The role also requires someone with knowledge and experience of team management and leadership and the ability to plan and develop services.

The expanding Critical Care Centre transforms the care of our most seriously ill patients. This is a challenging and interesting position that combines expert clinical input, teaching, service and staff development, team leadership and management. You will be responsible for the running of your team including clinical governance, managing capacity and demand of the caseload and managerial administrative tasks., You will lead the critical care occupational therapy service, focusing on staff and service development to provide the best possible patient care through evidence-based practice. You will ensure the team are up-to-date with research developments and local and national guidelines. You will be expected to provide innovative thinking, teaching and external representation of this unique role.

You will demonstrate excellent team management skills and interpersonal skills and use a variety of methods of communication. You will motivate your team to proactively identify learning needs, participate and lead teaching sessions. You will be forward thinking and identify areas for service development.

You will have expert skills and experience in the management, assessment and rehabilitation of patients who are critically ill. You will have expert knowledge of management of disability, disorders of consciousness, cognitive changes, upper limb interventions including splinting and typical medical, surgical and neurological conditions to guide your team in treatment approaches and discharge planning.

You will display excellent partnership working with patients, their families/carers, multi-disciplinary teams, social services and intermediate care as well as managers and consultants at both a clinical and service level.

You will have a flexible approach to working across sites and a commitment to working weekends on a 7-day rota.

King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK's largest and busiest teaching Trusts with a turnover of c£1 billion, 1.5 million patient contacts a year and more than 15,000 staff based across South East London. The Trust provides a full range of local and specialist services across its five sites. The trust-wide strategy of Strong Roots, Global Reach is our Vision to be BOLD, Brilliant people, Outstanding care, Leaders in Research, Innovation and Education, Diversity, Equality and Inclusion at the heart of everything we do. By being person-centred, digitally-enabled, and focused on sustainability, we aim to take Team King's to another level.

We are at a pivotal point in our history and we require individuals who are ready to join a highly professional team and make a real, lasting difference to our patients and our people.

King's is committed to delivering Sustainable Healthcare for All via our Green Plan. In line with national Greener NHS ambitions, we have set net zero carbon targets of 2040 for our NHS Carbon Footprint and 2045 for our NHS Carbon Footprint Plus. Everyone's contribution is required in order to meet the goals set out in our Green Plan and we encourage all staff to work responsibly, minimising their contributions to the Trust's carbon emissions, waste and pollution wherever possible.