Band 7 OT Emergency Department
Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust · Theatre Practitioner · viaNHS Jobs
£49387.00 to £56515.00
- Closing date
- 18 Nov 2026
- Posted
- Today
- Specialism
- Theatre Practitioner
- Sector
- Healthcare
- Reference
- nhs-5701170
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Job summary
Queen Elizabeth Hospitalis committed to high-quality patient care and staff development. We are currently seeking a passionate, dynamicBand 7 Occupational Therapistto join our newly redeveloped Emergency department team.
The Emergency department at QEH is a fast-paced, dynamic department where you will play a key role in providing holistic assessments and interventions for a diverse range of patients. You'll collaborate with consultants, nurses, physiotherapists, and other healthcare professionals to ensure optimal outcomes for patients and support hospital flow.
As a Band 7 Occupational Therapist, you will be responsible for delivering patient-centered therapy and ensuring safe, effective discharge planning. The role involves managing complex caseloads, adopting coaching and mentoring approaches with junior staff, and contributing to service development and quality improvements.
We need an innovative team player to work alongside the service lead and peers, developing this newly established service and guiding the team in its growth. You will also oversee supervision, training, and development for the team, attend clinical governance meetings, and contribute to departmental and Trust improvements.
Learning and personal development are encouraged, with a well-established appraisal system and funding for relevant external and internal courses.
Main duties of the job
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- Clinical Expertise:Provide expert assessment and treatment for patients presenting with acute medical , trauma related, and complex functional needs in the ED. This included rapid functional assessment for patients with conditions such as falls, delirium, frailty syndromes, cognitive impairments, safeguarding concerns and functional decline.
- Discharge Planning:Formulate and implement timely, patient-centred discharge plans in a high-pressure ED setting. Work closely with patients, carers, and the multidisciplinary team to ensure safe discharge home or onward referral, helping to prevent unnecessary admissions and support effective hospital flow.
Supervision & Mentorship:Provide clinical supervision, mentoring, and support for staff working in the emergency department and SDEC. Promote reflective practice and ongoing development in a rapidly evolving clinical environment.
Service Improvement:Actively contribute to the development and refinement of the emergency department occupational therapy service. Participate in quality improvement initiatives, governance activities, and service evaluations to ensure high standards of care and innovative practice.
About us
Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:
- Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
- Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
- Improving the experience of staff with disability
- Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
- Making equalities mainstream.
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Details
Date posted
03 November 2026
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 7
Salary
£49,387 to £56,515 a year per annum plus HCAS
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
197-AO7535-A
Job locations
Queen Elizabeth Hospital
Stadium Road
London
SE18 4QH
United Kingdom
Job description
Job responsibilities
JOB PURPOSE
The Occupational Therapy Team Lead provides professional and clinical leadership to Occupational Therapy staff in the Medical Team based at the QEH site.
The post holder supervises the day to day running of the medical Occupational Therapy team and is line managed by the Occupational Therapy Site Lead at QEH. To achieve this, the post holder works in close collaboration with the OT Site Lead QEH, and the other Band 7 Occupational Therapy Team Leads.
The Occupational Therapy Team Lead is a highly experienced clinician in medicine particularly neurology who independently manages a significant and highly specialised clinical caseload.
In conjunction with the OT Site Lead, the post holder coordinates a rollingprogramme of education, clinical evaluation, audit and research within the pathway team atQEH.
As part of the senior clinical Occupational Therapy team on the QEH site, the post holder will deputise for the Occupational Therapy Site Lead QEH as required.
The post is based on the Queen Elizabeth site but may at times be asked to work on other sites in order to maintain service levels
7-day working for Therapies is in place within the Trust and the postholder is required to undertake a different working pattern, including weekends, in the future.
KEY RELATIONSHIPS
INTERNAL INCLUDE: Therapy Managers and Therapy leads, own Teams, referring clinicians, MDTs, on ward, therapy administrative team, HR, other Trust Committees and own clinical teams
EXTERNAL INCLUDE: GPs, Community Services, Social services, Local authorities, AHP managers and leads, Voluntary services, College of Occupational Therapists, Health professions council, DoH Networks and Policy Groups, Higher Education Institutes, Colleges and Schools, NHSE.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Clinical
1. To undertake all aspects of clinical duties and to carry a significant caseload of patients as an autonomous practitioner, including those with highly complex presentations
2. To work at an advanced level and to be professionally and legally accountable for a highly-specialised patient caseload and to decide priorities for own work area, balancing other patient related and professional demands
3. To be professionally and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of own work, and of the pathway teams work. This will include the management of clinical risk, clinical governance, knowledge of indications and precautions of chosen techniques in line with National and Trust clinical guidelines and protocols where they exist.
4. To assess patients capacity, gain valid informed consent to treatment and where such capacity is lacking/absent to work within a legal framework in the management of the patient
5. To undertake the comprehensive assessment and accurate diagnosis of patients, including those with an extremely complex presentation, using investigative, palpatory, analytical and clinical reasoning skills
6. As appropriate to the job role, to request diagnostic procedures that will inform clinical decision making
Please read attached Job description for full details
All clinical staff are accountable and responsible for their own clinical competence and should limit their actions to those for which they are deemed competent in line with guidance from their professional bodies.
Job responsibilities
JOB PURPOSE
The Occupational Therapy Team Lead provides professional and clinical leadership to Occupational Therapy staff in the Medical Team based at the QEH site.
The post holder supervises the day to day running of the medical Occupational Therapy team and is line managed by the Occupational Therapy Site Lead at QEH. To achieve this, the post holder works in close collaboration with the OT Site Lead QEH, and the other Band 7 Occupational Therapy Team Leads.
The Occupational Therapy Team Lead is a highly experienced clinician in medicine particularly neurology who independently manages a significant and highly specialised clinical caseload.
In conjunction with the OT Site Lead, the post holder coordinates a rollingprogramme of education, clinical evaluation, audit and research within the pathway team atQEH.
As part of the senior clinical Occupational Therapy team on the QEH site, the post holder will deputise for the Occupational Therapy Site Lead QEH as required.
The post is based on the Queen Elizabeth site but may at times be asked to work on other sites in order to maintain service levels
7-day working for Therapies is in place within the Trust and the postholder is required to undertake a different working pattern, including weekends, in the future.
KEY RELATIONSHIPS
INTERNAL INCLUDE: Therapy Managers and Therapy leads, own Teams, referring clinicians, MDTs, on ward, therapy administrative team, HR, other Trust Committees and own clinical teams
EXTERNAL INCLUDE: GPs, Community Services, Social services, Local authorities, AHP managers and leads, Voluntary services, College of Occupational Therapists, Health professions council, DoH Networks and Policy Groups, Higher Education Institutes, Colleges and Schools, NHSE.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Clinical
1. To undertake all aspects of clinical duties and to carry a significant caseload of patients as an autonomous practitioner, including those with highly complex presentations
2. To work at an advanced level and to be professionally and legally accountable for a highly-specialised patient caseload and to decide priorities for own work area, balancing other patient related and professional demands
3. To be professionally and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of own work, and of the pathway teams work. This will include the management of clinical risk, clinical governance, knowledge of indications and precautions of chosen techniques in line with National and Trust clinical guidelines and protocols where they exist.
4. To assess patients capacity, gain valid informed consent to treatment and where such capacity is lacking/absent to work within a legal framework in the management of the patient
5. To undertake the comprehensive assessment and accurate diagnosis of patients, including those with an extremely complex presentation, using investigative, palpatory, analytical and clinical reasoning skills
6. As appropriate to the job role, to request diagnostic procedures that will inform clinical decision making
Please read attached Job description for full details
All clinical staff are accountable and responsible for their own clinical competence and should limit their actions to those for which they are deemed competent in line with guidance from their professional bodies.
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