Specialised Occupational Therapist

Job Title: Specialist Occupational TherapistBand: Band 6Hours of Work (p/w) - Full time: 37.5 hoursService Centre/Directorate: TherapiesBase: Main base St George's HospitalAccountable to: Divisional Head of Therapies for Clinical Area, plus Professional Lead for Occupational TherapyReports to: Band 7 / 8a for clinical areaResponsible for: Band 5s and technicians on a daily basis, and undergraduate students on clinical placement. Assisting in running the team and deputising for senior staff where necessary.Key working relationships: Members of inter-professional teams both internal and external to the organisation., To provide Occupational Therapy to patients working without direct supervision. To be responsible for own clinical workload within a defined area and accountable for own professional actions. To provide specialised Occupational Therapy advice in relation to care of patients with a range of psycho-social, physical and emotional problems including terminal illness, working in an acute or rehabilitation setting.

With nearly9,000 dedicated staff caring for patients around the clock, they are the largest healthcare provider in southwest London.Their main site, St George's Hospital in Tooting - one of the country's principal teaching hospitals - is shared with St George's, University of London, which trains medical students and carries out advanced medical research. St George's Hospital also hosts the St George's, University of London and Kingston University Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences, which is responsible for training a wide range of healthcare professionals from across the region.As well as acute hospital services, they provide a wide variety of specialist care and a full range of community services to patients of all ages following integration with Community Services Wandsworth in 2010.The trust also provides care for patients from a larger catchment area in southeast England, for specialties such as complex pelvic trauma. Other services treat patients from all over the
country, such as family HIV care and bone marrow transplantation for non-cancer diseases. The trust also provides a nationwide state-of-the-art endoscopy training centre.