Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
Job summary
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
Closing Date: 28 October 2026
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