Highly Specialist Occupational Therapist

0.8 WTE | Fixed-Term 9-Month Contract (Maternity Leave Cover)

Are you an experienced Band 7 Occupational Therapist or Physiotherapist with a background in urgent response, admission avoidance, acute medicine, or emergency care? Do you enjoy autonomous decision-making, managing clinical complexity, and demonstrating leadership within dynamic multidisciplinary team?

The @home Service is at the forefront of community healthcare transformation, delivering rapid assessment and intervention to support people with complex and urgent health and social needs to remain safely at home. Working in line with the NHS vision for integrated community care, we provide responsive, high-quality care that reduces unnecessary hospital admissions.

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated clinician with advanced assessment, clinical reasoning, and risk management skills.

As a senior member of the team, you will demonstrate advanced assessment and clinical reasoning, provide clinical leadership, contribute to service development, and support colleagues through shared learning and professional expertise.

This role is ideally suited to an ambitious clinician who is passionate about innovative community practice and thrives in a fast-paced environment. If you are looking for an opportunity to make a real impact and utilise your clinical and leadership skills within a forward-thinking urgent community response service, we would love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

Provide Occupational Therapy/Physiotherapy assessment, intervention, and care planning for patients in the community, delivering high-quality, person-centred care within professional scope.

Work both autonomously and collaboratively with colleagues acrosshealth and social care to ensure seamless, coordinated care and positive patient experiences in patients' homes.

Demonstrate strong clinical judgement in triaging referrals, prioritising resources, and ensuring timely allocation of care based on clinical need.

Undertake the Therapist in Charge role, providing clinical leadership, oversight of the therapy caseload, and supporting safe, effective service delivery.

Supervise and line manage junior therapists and support workers, offering professional support, clinical guidance, and student mentorship.

Act as a senior therapy resource, supporting complex case management, shared learning, and workforce development.

Contribute to service improvement, audit, research, and evidence-based practice initiatives to enhance quality and outcomes.

Maintain ongoing professional development across the four pillars of practice through supervision, reflection, and multidisciplinary working.

Person specification

Experience

Essential

• Experience of working with adults and older people with chronic conditions and complex co-morbidities
• Post-graduate/rehabilitation experience at minimum Band 6 in all core areas: neurology, orthopedics, respiratory, and care of the elderly
• Experience in devising, delivering and evaluating training both within the service and to other agencies
• Extensive experience in the application of manual handling techniques in line with Manual Handling Guidelines.
• Demonstrated experience in line management, supervision, mentoring and education of junior therapists and AHP students

Desirable

• Previous experience in urgent/rapid response, A&E, acute medicine or similar

Skills

Essential

• Demonstrated ability to manage a complex and constantly changing workload of clinical and non-clinical duties demonstrating excellent time management, prioritisation and organisational skills
• Ability to manage risk appropriately, applying clinical reasoning and critical analysis to support decision making

Able to develop effective therapeutic and working relationships, demonstrating empathy, active listening and motivational skills

Ability to use an evidence-based approach including clinical outcome measures to evaluate outcomes

Ability to adopt innovative and flexible working practices and lead and implement successful change management

Knowledge and application of a wide range of approaches to manage patient complexity, demonstrated by advanced clinical reasoning

Understanding of Clinical Governance and the implications for services including experience in quality improvement and audit

Demonstrated advanced clinical reasoning and assessment, including complex patients

Desirable

• Knowledge of current national policies and directives relevant to intermediate care and UCR

Qualifications/Knowledge

Essential

• Recognised Occupational Therapy/Physiotherapy degree qualification or equivalent
• Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) registration
• Recognised post-graduate qualification in specialist clinical area

Desirable

• Member of relevant Clinical Interest Group e.g. RCOT, CSP, other related to specialist clinical area

About the employer

GSTT @home is an innovative hospital-at-home service, bringing together health and social care professionals to deliver responsive, multidisciplinary care in patients' homes, reducing the need for hospital admission while supporting people to remain independent. The service operates seven days a week, with therapists participating in a four-week rota that includes weekend working. This 0.8 WTE fixed-term role would be expected to work predominantly between 08:00 and 18:30 as a guide. We recognise the importance of work-life balance and are happy to discuss flexible working arrangements to support individual needs where possible.