Ashford and St. Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
About
Established in 1998 from the merger of Ashford and St. Peter’s Hospitals, the Trust has been on a long journey of development and improvement to its current position as the largest provider of acute hospital services to Surrey residents. It became a Foundation Trust in December 2010.
Ashford and St. Peter’s Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of more than 410,000 people living in the boroughs of Runnymede, Spelthorne, Woking and parts of Elmbridge, Hounslow, Surrey Heath and beyond. The Trust employs around 4,400 individual members of staff. Our turnover was £425 million in 2021/22.
The Trust provides a whole range of services across its hospital sites. The majority of planned care, like day case and orthopaedic surgery and rehabilitation services, is provided at Ashford Hospital, with more complex medical and surgical care and emergency services at St. Peter’s Hospital.
Key details
Location
Site: St Peters Hospital
Town: Chertsey
Postcode: KT16 0PZ
Major / Minor Region: Surrey
Contract type & working pattern
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Salary
Salary: £48,270 - £54,931 pa inc. HCAs
Salary period: Yearly
Grade: Band 7
Specialty
Main area: Occupational Therapist
Interview date: 08/03/2025
Job overview
We are looking for an experienced occupational therapist who has the passion and drive to lead occupational therapists within the surgical, cardiorespiratory, and critical care team in our acute hospital setting. This role requires a motivated individual willing to contribute, facilitate, design, and lead service development. You will join a friendly and dynamic team, working alongside a band 7 physiotherapist in supporting and developing the team's work across surgical wards, including cardiorespiratory and amputee and more recently the role of OT within critical care, ensuring a high-quality therapy service that is patient-centred, and ensuring evidence-based practice is embedded in its provision. The successful applicant will provide expert support, advice, and training to both the OT team and the wider therapy/multidisciplinary service. They will have their own clinical case load and supervise band 6 and band 5 OTs plus support staff.
The post holder should have expertise in clinical reasoning and assessment skills, including general experience in surgical, respiratory, amputee, and neurology. They should have expertise in the management of complex cases, discharge planning, and advanced communication skills whilst working in a busy multi-disciplinary hospital environment.
Responsibilities
The post holder will:
* Work autonomously as an expert clinician, liaising effectively with other health professionals to ensure evidence-based delivery of service within professional scope of practice.
* Provide leadership in specialist field and be a key contributor to quality improvement, research, and audit.
* Work in partnership with the band 7 specialist physiotherapists within critical care and respiratory.
* Support staff development and training across professional and organisational boundaries and lead on simulation and on-call training.
* Ashford and St Peter’s offer a seven-day service across some specialties and you will be expected to support this on a rota system.
For further information, please contact Katie Kyritsis, Clinical Lead for therapies- Respiratory at [email protected]
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration. The postholder will have regular contact with vulnerable people and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Person specification
Qualifications and Experience
Essential criteria
* HCPC Registration in Occupational Therapy
* CPD activity demonstrated in ICU care
* ICU experience as an Occupational Therapist
* Experience in Leading a team
Desirable criteria
* Educator course
* Management courses
Knowledge
Essential criteria
* Strong understanding in role of OT in ICU
* Evidence of use of audit and its use to improve interventions/service
Desirable criteria
* Trust vision, values, strategic objectives and key work programmes
Skills
Essential criteria
* Advanced clinical reasoning skills that guide interventions (i.e. risk assessment and discharge planning, management of complex disability)
* Teaching and communication skills to promote the role of occupational therapy and physiotherapy with patients and the MDT
* Manage and be accountable for own and team workload prioritisation
* Good understanding of their communication, physical & emotional needs; can identify their individual needs and preferences, their changing needs and recognise and promote their independence.
Further details / informal visits contact
Name: Katie Kyritsis
Job title: Clinical 8a Therapy Lead
Email address: [email protected]
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