Job summary
- Main area
- ITU Acute Adult OT
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Would be expected to contribute to weekend working (1 in every 6 weeks))
- Job ref
- 396-NN-7348149-AHP-GV
- Employer
- Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Kingston Hospital
- Town
- Kingston upon Thames
- Salary
- £53,751 - £60,651 pa. pr Inclusive of HCAS (Outer)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 20/08/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Highly Specialist Occupational Therapist – ITU B7 Team Lead
Band 7
Home, community, hospital
Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust offers a range of fantastic opportunities to grow your career across both hospital and community settings in south London. Whether you're looking to build new skills or take your experience to the next level, we are uniquely placed to provide the right environment to support your professional development. With colleagues working in people’s homes, in community clinics, and in our two hospitals, we have an outstanding breadth of knowledge and experience to draw from.
Our commitment to exceptional care is reflected in being the first trust of our kind in London to achieve an ‘Outstanding’ rating from the CQC for both overall quality and leadership. We exist to provide the best possible care for our patients and we do that by giving our colleagues what they need to be their best at work. We have won numerous awards from the HSJ and Nursing Times for the way we support our colleagues across all our services.
We are proud to be recognised for our outstanding cancer care, children's services, pioneering surgical teams, and exceptional rehabilitation services. Our maternity services have been rated the "Best in London" by women surveyed by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), with parents travelling to Kingston to take advantage of our considerable experience and expertise.
Our Trust values
These words are important reminders, but it’s our behaviours that tell people who we are. We expect all colleagues to bring our values to life in their work.
- Compassionate: We provide care with kindness, understanding, and empathy for all.
- Inclusive: We embrace diversity and respect the unique contributions of every individual.
- Collaborative: We foster teamwork across all levels, working together and with our partners to deliver the best outcomes.
- Inspiring: We are committed to continuous improvement and excellence in patient care, staff development, and innovation.
Job overview
“Occupational Therapy at Kingston Hospital is a therapeutic discipline that aims to provide individualised, goal-orientated interventions that promote health and welling-being through participation in chosen occupations”
An exciting opportunity has arisen within Kingston Hospital Foundation Trust, for an enthusiastic and highly motivated Band 7 Occupational Therapist to join our acute ITU and surgical unit as a team lead.
The successful candidate will join a team passionate about lifelong learning and career mapping. You will receive regular supervision and participate in a senior CPD teaching and peer support program. You will also support a junior teaching program, have a yearly performance appraisal and where linked to your appraisal and career mapping you will be supported to seek funding for external formal courses. You will be supported by an experienced highly specialist MDT team and operational lead.
Main duties of the job
You will work collaboratively within an integrated specialist therapy team to provide holistic, patient-centered occupational therapy that empowers patient’s to achieve their goals.
You will be joining a department that is embracing change to ensure practice is in line with current evidence-based practice, national and local polices, and within the scope of professional standards of practice. There will be opportunities to contribute to the development and evaluation of the occupational therapy service and ITU and surgical service.
The team prides itself in a positive working culture amongst staff, where team effort is acknowledged, differences are respected and opportunities for progress are facilitated.
The successful applicant will also be expected to contribute to the weekend and bank holiday rota in A&E and on the acute wards. The ITU and surgical Unit does not currently offer a 7 day service but this may change in the future.
Overseas Applicants: Applications from those currently living overseas are welcome; however please note that there are currently government restrictions in place regarding the issue of work visas and travel to the UK. As a result this may delay the recruitment process by several months for any international applicant who is appointable.
Working for our organisation
The Trust has defined its culture as one that is patient centred and which puts safety first and where all staff members take responsibility, are valued and value each other.
To support this, our values are that we are all:
Compassionate - We treat everyone with kindness, understanding and empathy
Inclusive - We are respectful, fair and open, valuing everyone’s unique contribution
Collaborative - We work together across our teams and with our partners and are helpful, positive and supportive
Inspiring - We strive for the best for patients, communities, staff and partners and are always learning and improving
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please ensure that you have read the job description and person specification and that your supporting statement reflects these, as your application will be assessed and scored against these criteria.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Diploma or Degree in Occupational Therapy
- HCPC registration
Desirable criteria
- Supervision/PDR/Appraisal training
Experience
Essential criteria
- A minimum of 4 years post-registration experience, with:
- At least 1 year experience in acute ITU/CCU or surgical services.
- At least 3 years of experience within a physical health setting
Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to work autonomously with expert clinical reasoning skills in the application of the OT process in ITU/CCU and surgery.
- Able to facilitate these skills via support and/or education with other OTs as team lead.
- Proficient ability to complete and analyse standardised assessments, non-standardised assessments and outcome measures to support OT process. Proficient ability to complete goal setting, planning, intervention and evaluation as part of OT process in ITU/CCU and surgery.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Specialist knowledge and application of OT assessments and interventions relevant to patient group within CCU/ITU and surgery
Your application: Please ensure your supporting statement aligns with the job description and person specification, as your application will be assessed against these criteria.
Artificial Intelligence: We kindly ask that you refrain from using AI tools to draft your application, as we value authentic, individual responses that reflect your own communication style.
References: Please provide 3 years of employment/educational history with professional email addresses (not personal ones like Hotmail or Gmail). If you cannot supply these, inform the interviewers to avoid delays in pre-employment checks.
Closing date: To keep our recruitment process efficient, some vacancies may be capped and closed early once we receive a sufficient number of applications.
Shortlisting: You will only be contacted by email or SMS from the SWL Recruitment Hub if you are successfully shortlisted. Please check your registered Trac email regularly.
DBS: We are committed to safeguarding children and vulnerable adults at risk of harm. For roles involving direct access to these groups, an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check will be required. All employees, however, hold a responsibility to safeguard children and vulnerable adults as part of their duties and to understand the specific safeguarding responsibilities associated with their role.
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Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Sarah Barden
- Job title
- Operational Inpatient Team Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 020 8934 3450
- Additional information
Sarah Barden - [email protected]
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