Job summary
Join our friendly and supportive Community Rehabilitation and Falls Service as an Occupational Therapy Assistant, where every day brings new opportunities to make a difference.
You'll be working at the heart of our South London communities, supporting adults to live safely, independently, and confidently in their own homes. Whether you're helping someone practice daily tasks after a fall, set up equipment to make life easier, or build strength and confidence through meaningful activities, your work will have a lasting impact.
This is a hands-on and varied role, perfect if you enjoy meeting people, problem-solving, and working as part of a multidisciplinary team. You'll visit clients across Brixton, Streatham, Oval, Peckham, and Dulwich, supporting them with their rehabilitation and helping them achieve goals that matter most to them.
You'll work closely with Occupational Therapists and Physiotherapists, gaining valuable experience in assessment, equipment provision, and rehabilitation programmes. We'll support you every step of the way with supervision, training, and development opportunities to help you progress in your OTA career.
At Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, you'll also benefit from our award-winning "Showing We Care About You" programme, which offers support for your wellbeing, career growth, and work-life balance.
If you're caring, motivated, and passionate about helping others live more independent lives, we'd love to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
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Support rehab programmes designed by OTs and Physios, helping people build confidence and independence in daily activities.
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Provide equipment and practical solutions for patients to make everyday life safer and easier.
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Carry out home visits, deliver exercise programmes, and document progress accurately.
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Work closely with our multidisciplinary team across community, inpatient and outpatient settings.
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Take part in service development projects
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You may be asked to provide cover at Pulross Rehab Ward and take part in the weekend rota (one day over a weekend when required).
About us
Guys and St. Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust:
From our5main hospitals, and in thecommunity, we provide a full range of lifelong, general and specialist care, as well asclinical research, innovation,education and training.
We're a diverse and welcoming organisation, and are incredibly proud of our 25,500 staff and the dedication they show to our patients and each other.
We aim to be outstanding in everything we do and to provide high quality and compassionate care and experience to all of our patients and families.
As a leading centre of clinical research with a long history of innovation and medical firsts, we are able to provide the latest and most advanced treatments. We'reranked top in Englandfor the number of trials open for patients to join and in the top 10 for the number of patients recruited to help us in our research.
Together with our partners inKing's Health Partners, we form 1 of the UK's 8 Academic Health Science Centres.
Our world famous teaching hospitals train the doctors, nurses and healthcare professionals of the future.GKT School of Medical Educationis our medical school, run jointly withKing's College LondonandKing's College Hospital.
We're guided by our values in everything we do and, as one of the largest employers in London, we reflect the diversity, opportunity and ambition of our communities and the people we serve.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the full job description and person specification for details of the role's main responsibilities
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the full job description and person specification for details of the role's main responsibilities
Person Specification
Qualifications/ Education
Essential
- A levels, NVQ Level III or equivalent skills in relevant subjects eg biology, social care
Desirable
Experience
Essential
- Relevant significant experience working in a health, education or social care setting
- Relevant significant experience working with adults and older people with a physical disability
- Experience of administrative work eg filing, typing
Desirable
- Community rehabilitation experience
- Experience in assessing, reviewing and installing small equipment aids
Skills and abilities
Essential
- Effective therapeutic group leadership and facilitation skills
- Able to demonstrate and use planning, organisational and time management skills to prioritise and organise client caseloads and competing time and workload demands.
- Able to work effectively both independently and as part of a team.
- Effective verbal, telephone and written communication skills in English.
- Good numeracy skills
- Competent in the use of basic IT including MS Word, email and internet and has the ability to learn other IT skills
- Able to recognise and respect different cultural, religious and personal experiences of colleagues and clients.
- Able to demonstrate sensitivity and tact when working with clients and their families.
- Ability and willingness to be flexible in approach to work and to be responsive to changing demands of the service and clients.
- Understanding of and ability to participate in supervision and appraisal
- Physically fit and able to undertake frequent therapeutic moving and handling of clients and equipment.
Desirable
- Competent in the use of Excel and PowerPoint
- Experience in referral screening and prioritisation
Knowledge
Essential
- Understanding of a wide range of physical and psychological conditions and their impact on a client's ability to undertake every day activities, mobility and communication.
- A basic understanding of Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy and Nursing and the role of a Therapy Assistant in supporting the rehabilitation team.
Physical requirements
Essential
- Physically fit and able to undertake frequent therapeutic moving and handling of clients and equipment.
- Able to travel across a range of community settings with equipment and mobile devices
Desirable
Person Specification
Qualifications/ Education
Essential
- A levels, NVQ Level III or equivalent skills in relevant subjects eg biology, social care
Desirable
Experience
Essential
- Relevant significant experience working in a health, education or social care setting
- Relevant significant experience working with adults and older people with a physical disability
- Experience of administrative work eg filing, typing
Desirable
- Community rehabilitation experience
- Experience in assessing, reviewing and installing small equipment aids
Skills and abilities
Essential
- Effective therapeutic group leadership and facilitation skills
- Able to demonstrate and use planning, organisational and time management skills to prioritise and organise client caseloads and competing time and workload demands.
- Able to work effectively both independently and as part of a team.
- Effective verbal, telephone and written communication skills in English.
- Good numeracy skills
- Competent in the use of basic IT including MS Word, email and internet and has the ability to learn other IT skills
- Able to recognise and respect different cultural, religious and personal experiences of colleagues and clients.
- Able to demonstrate sensitivity and tact when working with clients and their families.
- Ability and willingness to be flexible in approach to work and to be responsive to changing demands of the service and clients.
- Understanding of and ability to participate in supervision and appraisal
- Physically fit and able to undertake frequent therapeutic moving and handling of clients and equipment.
Desirable
- Competent in the use of Excel and PowerPoint
- Experience in referral screening and prioritisation
Knowledge
Essential
- Understanding of a wide range of physical and psychological conditions and their impact on a client's ability to undertake every day activities, mobility and communication.
- A basic understanding of Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy and Nursing and the role of a Therapy Assistant in supporting the rehabilitation team.
Physical requirements
Essential
- Physically fit and able to undertake frequent therapeutic moving and handling of clients and equipment.
- Able to travel across a range of community settings with equipment and mobile devices
Desirable
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
