Band 6 Frailty Occupational Therapist | Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 10 June 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £42,939 - £50,697 p.a. pro rata inclusive of HCAS (Outer) |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 10 July 2025 |
| Location: | Kingston, KT2 7QB |
| Company: | Kingston Hospital Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7236799/396-NN-7236799-AHP-GV-Z |
Summary
A fantastic opportunity has arisen for a band 6 static post within the Kingston Hospital Frailty/ Emergenty Department team, which will enable you to develop and integrate your OT skills and knowledge within emergency care.
The organisations offer excellent opportunities for continuing professional development and are committed to clinical excellence and audit.
Within this post you will have the opportunity to
• complete quality improvement project
• training on equipment, adaptations, seating, moving and handling, assessment and intervention for complex comorbidities and long term conditions.
• Participate in in service training and peer support.
Applicants are expected to work autonomously and as part of the wider MDT.
Main duties may include but are not exhaustive of managing own caseload, liaising with MDT, moving and handling assessments and patient centred goal setting. You will be working closely with patients, family members, carers and acute/ community partners to deliver individualised treatment programmes. You will also be facilitating clinical supervision, student development and service improvement initiatives including audits, pathway developments and service promotion.
The Trust has defined its culture as one that is patient centred and which puts safety first and where all staff members take responsibility, are valued and value each other.
To support this, our five values are that we are all:
Caring– we design and deliver care around each individual patient’s needs and wants.
Safe– we make the safety of patients and staff our prime concern (safety comes first).
Responsible– all staff take responsibility for the hospital, its services and reputation.
Inspiring– we always strive to empower each other to develop and deliver improvements to benefit our patients.
Value each other– we all value each other’s contribution.
Our training, policies, procedures, and practices are all intended to support behaviours in line with our values and all staff are expected to uphold these byLiving Our Values Every day.
*****Please see the attached supporting document which contains more information about the role*****
This advert closes on Tuesday 24 Jun 2025