Senior Specialist Occupational Therapist Critical Care
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 21/08/2026
- Closes
- 06/09/2026
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Role summary
This is an exciting opportunity for a senior specialist occupational therapist to join a growing Occupational Therapy team within a dynamic Critical Care multi-disciplinary team. The role involves managing a complex clinical caseload across inpatient critical care and follow-up clinics, requiring autonomous and forward-thinking practice. You will provide expert occupational therapy services, lead junior staff, and contribute to service development and quality improvement initiatives. The position also involves deputising for the Clinical Specialist and working extended hours as part of the follow-up clinic role.
Essential criteria
- Degree or diploma in Occupational Therapy
- HCPC registration
Desirable criteria
- Masters level or equivalent training in specialist area
- Significant practical experience, research, or publication in specialist area
- Evidence of clinical knowledge of the interplay of disease process and functional wellbeing
- Experience should include a varied range of clinical experiences & rotations in an acute hospital setting
- Evidence of continuing professional development and post registration education and training
- Experience of audit/research or service evaluation
- Ability to supervise junior staff and students
- Evidence of a high standard of performance in a range of clinical skills in physical disability and cognitive impairment
- Experience in critical care
- Experience in neurology
- Experience in general medicine ie. cardiology/ respiratory
- Outpatient experience
- Symptom-management experience
- Experience of research
- Quality improvement training ie. practitioner level
- Other
- Adherence to Royal College of Occupational Therapy and HCPC guidelines and codes of ethics and professional conduct
- Membership of Royal College of Occupational Therapy
- Reliable work record
- Membership of professional body
- Membership of Specialist Section groups ie Critical Care Forum
- Skilla and abilities
- Specialist knowledge, understanding and application of Occupational Therapy process relating to client centred practice
- Specialist knowledge, application and analysis of standardised assessment tools
- Demonstrate sound techniques in applying a wide range of specialist sensory, physical and manual assessments and treatments
- Ability to work autonomously, acting decisively on behalf of self and others, setting own priorities
- Experience of working within multi-disciplinary diagnostic and intervention services
- Ability to manage individual and team performance
- Ability to promote clinical excellence in self and others
- Demonstrate clinical leadership skills and excellent team building skills
- Proven organisational and management skills
- Demonstrates ethical reasoning and critical reflection
- Committed to improve the experience of service users, appreciating complexity of context, culture of equity, diversity belonging
- Proven experience in the training, teaching and supervision of others
- Proven experience in developing and providing education and teaching programmes to other professionals and students
- Ability to apply Clinical Governance principles to practice
- Implementation of national initiatives and legislation relating to Health and Social Care and occupational therapy
- Ability to work to deadlines and under pressure
- Ability to positively manage exposure to patients and environments which may be distressing, antagonistic, open to aggression and unpleasant
- Ability to manage and recognise differences of opinion in both patient related and inter-professional settings, coping positively with inter-professional tensions/ barriers
- Demonstrate ability to motivate and manage teams through change positively
- Computer literacy
- Ability to work flexibly
- Leadership qualities
- Proactive, self-directed, with innovative approach
- Demonstrate excellent communication and interactive skills
- Ability to manage conflict positively
- Acceptance of responsibility for self and others
- Commitment to lifelong learning
- Knowledge/Qualifications
- Degree or diploma in Occupational Therapy
- HCPC registration
- Masters level or equivalent training in specialist area
- Significant practical experience, research, or publication in specialist area
- Evidence of clinical knowledge of the interplay of disease process and functional wellbeing
- Experience should include a varied range of clinical experiences & rotations in an acute hospital setting
- Evidence of continuing professional development and post registration education and training
- Experience of audit/research or service evaluation
- Ability to supervise junior staff and students
- Evidence of a high standard of performance in a range of clinical sk
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 7 at £46,148 – £52,809 a year, across England.
This advert: £58,133 – £65,261 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
Posted 9d ago · Closes in 8d
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Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a senior specialist occupational therapist to work as part of a growing Occupational Therapy team within an established and dynamic Critical Care multi-disciplinary team.
We seek an individual who is autonomous, forward-thinking and enthusiastic to work with us within the critical care inpatient and follow-up clinic role. The successful candidate will manage a variable clinical caseload with a complex critical care caseload across site and within clinic.
Our large and well-established multi-disciplinary critical care team will support the successful candidate to further enhance and extend their assessment, intervention and complex clinical assessment and rehabilitation within this the critical care environment. The role requires working extended hours (as part of follow-up clinic role).
You will be expected to deputise for the Clinical Specialist when indicated to manage the wider critical care team and clinical support of the service as needed. You will be part of a developing service with excellent quality improvement, research and service development opportunities.
Occupational Therapy in critical care is a new and emerging area and GSTT as part of Kings Health Partners and South East London Critical Care networks are working towards a robust, clinically excellent and evidence based practise occupational therapy service
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