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.

Job overview

This band 6 Occupational Therapy post offers experienced Occupational Therapists the opportunity of gaining advanced clinical skills & knowledge in the community. The post holder will provide high quality occupational therapy assessments and interventions to a wide variety of patients in liaison with the multidisciplinary team and community partners.

RRRT is a seven-day integrated health and social care service for adults, primarily older people, working in partnership with HRCH and the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames Council. The service is open 7 days per week from 8am – 8pm (37.5 hours per week). The post holder will be included on the weekend working rota which will include Bank Holidays.

Main duties of the job

Please see job description for full responsibilities. 

Key clinical responsibilities include: 

1.    To be professionally and legally accountable for all aspects of own clinical and professional work, including the management of patients in your care.

2.    To undertake comprehensive occupational therapy assessments with clients who have a range of health and social care needs. To develop skills in assessing and interpreting a range of complex factors relating to the client’s condition including diagnosis and prognosis.

3.    To be able to analyse and interpret assessment results based on a proficient knowledge of evidence-based practice, and using clinical reasoning skills to formulate and deliver an occupational-focussed treatment programme to enable optimal outcomes for clients.

4.    To plan and implement interventions in collaboration with clients using graded activity to achieve their therapeutic goals.

5.    Assess client understanding of treatment and gain their informed consent whilst being able to work within a legal framework with clients who have been assessed to lack mental capacity to consent to intervention.

6.    Monitor and evaluate client progress, re-assess and alter treatment programmes as appropriate in line with the client’s own occupational goals.

7.    To demonstrate proficient skills in monitoring the effectiveness of intervention through goal setting, outcome measurements and evaluation of practice.

Working for our organisation

We have four core values that all colleagues are expected to demonstrate in the way they work. Shaped by staff, patients and partners, our values are the guiding principles that together define who we are, what we do and what’s most important to us. 

·      Compassionate: We treat everyone with kindness, understanding and empathy

·      Inclusive: We are respectful, fair and open, embracing 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, staff and partners and are always learning and improvinDepartment philosophy

The main aim of Occupational Therapy is to optimise a person’s functional participation in their chosen activities of daily living by providing client-focussed assessment and intervention. We also aim to contribute to safe discharges and the flow of inpatient services within a supportive learning environment.