Acute Occupational Therapy Lead and Therapy Manager

Job summary

Acute Occupational Therapy Lead and Therapy Manager Band 8a

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Occupational Therapist to join our acute therapies management team. We are looking for an experienced OT with strong clinical skills and management experience to join our supportive therapy management team. This may be your first experience in a management role or you may have lots of experience.

Main duties of the job

To provide a high quality and responsive patient focused service to the patients of Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust resulting in good evidenced based outcomes.

The acute therapy service achieves this through providing assessment, diagnosis and effective treatment and management of patients accessing Occupational Therapy services in Epsom Hospital and St Helier Hospital and enabling access to community and other services for patients with Physiotherapy requirements.

To reduce length of stay, reduce duplication, increase response rates and single assessment processes across the patient pathway

To be the Professional Lead for acute Occupational Therapy

To operationally lead and develop Acute Occupational Therapy services on the acute sites for both adults and paediatrics.

Acute Therapy services comprise the following teams:

• Occupational Therapy
• Physiotherapy
• Dietetics
• Speech and Language Therapy
• Admin Team

The post holder is will have primary operational responsibility for Occupational Therapy. However it is expected that the post holder will work closely with the other Acute Therapy Managers and professional leads to provide cross cover for each other as required.

About us

Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust provides a range of medical services to approximately 490,000 people living across southwest London and northeast Surrey. In addition, we provide more specialist services, in particular renal and neonatal intensive care, to a wider area, covering parts of Sussex and Hampshire.

We serve an area that is rich in diversity, with a mix of urban and rural areas, and differing levels of quality of life. We cover some of the most prosperous postcodes in the country, as well as some poorer areas. Together with our colleagues at NHS Surrey and NHS Sutton and Merton, we work to make sure that we deliver the best possible care to the communities we serve.

The Trust employs approximately 5,000 staff across its hospitals and is supported by over 500 volunteers.