Principal OT for Senior Health, Medicine and Specialist Medicine.

We are looking for a dynamic and flexible occupational therapist with clinical leadership experience in assessment and rehabilitation of older people with acute medical illness and frailty and is able to offer advanced assessment and rehabilitation of patients who have more complex needs. Each clinical service has a Team Lead OT and Team Lead PT who are responsible for the day-to-day running of their clinical service. As part of your role, you will provide clinical leadership and management of the multidisciplinary therapy teams, ensuring delivery of high-quality patient centered care.
You will participate in the seven-day Emergency Department Admission Avoidance and Enhanced Weekend Rehabilitation and Discharge service on the medical and senior health wards enabling safe and timely discharge.
With strong links with the Southwest London AHP Faulty, there are opportunities to promote the occupational therapy profession and contribute to the development the occupational therapists of the future including apprenticeships and advanced clinical practitioner roles.
If you have the motivation, enthusiasm and desire to continue to develop your clinical, leadership and managerial skills, plus the ability to work well and flexibly within a team, we would welcome your application for this post.
We will provide you with excellent clinical and peer support from experienced clinicians across a wide range of clinical areas.

St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is the regional specialist care provider for south west London, Surrey and beyond. The trust provides a high quality, comprehensive range of health services from leading edge tertiary and trauma care to community services.
With national and regional referrals added to our local 3.5m catchment, we serve a population of around 5m.
Co-located with St George's, University of London and with both organisations now in a formal strategic alliance with King's Health Partners, the trust delivers with its partners high quality research and education both of which contribute to the healthcare provision of tomorrow.
Acute and tertiary health services are delivered from over 1,000 beds across two sites, by around 8,000 staff.
St George's Hospital is a major acute hospital that offers very specialist care for complex injuries and illnesses, including trauma, neurology, cardiac care, renal transplantation, cancer care and stroke. It has a helipad which opened in spring 2014 and the work of its emergency department can currently be seen on Channel 4's '24 Hours in A&E' programme. The hospital also provides all the usual care you would expect from a local NHS district general hospital.

Permanent contract
Full time 37.5 hours over 7 days
St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is a large Teaching Hospital in South-West London, serving a diverse and multicultural local community and providing specialised services nationally. The Trust is one of Europe's largest teaching hospitals and specialises in Major Trauma, Neurosciences, Cardiology and Plastics, amongst its specialties.
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