Camden RAS - Senior Occupational Therapist | Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

Camden RAS - Senior Occupational Therapist | Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

• Company: CNWL NHS Foundation
• Trust
• HCAS Hours: Full-time

Location: London, NW1 0PE Job type: Permanent Posting date: 17 Jul 2026 Closing date: 16 Aug 2026

Summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join CNWL NHS Foundation Trust’s innovative Rapid Access Services (RAS) team.

This role offers the chance to develop advanced clinical and leadership skills within a dynamic multidisciplinary service delivering integrated community healthcare.

RAS works closely with acute hospitals, social care and third-sector partners to provide high-quality acute care in the community, helping people remain at home, reducing avoidable hospital admissions and supporting timely discharge from hospital.

The service includes three key pathways

• Discharge to Assess (D2A): Supporting medically optimised patients to leave hospital safely through urgent therapy assessment and intervention at home.
• Urgent Community Response (UCR): Providing rapid assessment and treatment for patients to prevent hospital admission and clinical deterioration.
• Camden Hospital at Home ( ): A Consultant-led service delivering hospital-level care in patients’ homes following early discharge or step-up referrals from UCR.

This role offers exposure to a diverse and complex caseload, requiring advanced clinical reasoning and decision-making to optimise recovery and reduce pressure on acute services.

It also provides opportunities to develop leadership and management skills through involvement in service development, quality improvement, workforce planning, recruitment, supervision and appraisal of junior staff, and collaboration with key health and social care partners.

The Band 7 Occupational Therapist role within Camden Rapid Access Services is focused on providing advanced occupational therapy assessment and intervention for clinically frail adults, working closely within a multidisciplinary team to support admission avoidance, timely discharge, and community-based care.

Key responsibilities include assessing functional ability, falls risk, cognition, mental capacity, and deteriorating health needs; developing and implementing rehabilitation plans; coordinating care with primary, community, and acute services; supervising and supporting junior staff and students; contributing to service development and quality improvement initiatives; maintaining accurate electronic patient records; and providing leadership within the team.

The role requires strong clinical reasoning, autonomous decision-making, effective communication, and a commitment to evidence-based practice, patient safety, and continuous professional development.

• Shift work (earlies, lates and long days) as well as flexible working opportunities
• Buy & Sell Annual Leave
• NHS Pension Scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme: A free and confidential service to help with personal life
• Structured induction process using the New Starter Roadmap throughout the first 12 months and beyond
• A range of staff networks: The

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and other sexual and gender minorities (LGBT+) Network; Disabled Employees Network; Lived Experience of Mental Health Staff Network; Carers at Work Network; Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Network (BME)

• Discounts and savings at hundreds of retailers nationwide with
• Trust

Benefits: You can save money on your weekly food shops, household bills, toiletries, and cosmetics, cinema tickets, meals out and holidays or weekend breaks.

• Salary sacrifice scheme via VIVUP platform

Central and North West London NHS Trust is committed to providing safe, effective services and providing patients and families with a positive experience.

• Patient Safety
• Using their clinical judgement and risk assessments to keep the people using our services as safe as possible
• Safeguarding people by recognising and responding when an adult or child might be at risk from abuse but also recognising their own limits and asking for help and escalating concerns when necessary
• Escalating safety concerns and by doing so acting as effective advocates for those who use our services
• Being open and transparent about their own practice
• Supervising the work of others
• Reflecting on everyday practice to identify areas where improvements in safety or quality can be made
• Working with others to create a culture of continuous improvement
• Maintaining accurate, legible, comprehensive records
• Maintaining compliance with their mandatory training requirements

As the regulatory body, the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) plays an important role in safeguarding the public by regulating the work of both occupational therapists and physiotherapists.

All therapists must be registered with the HCPC and adhere to the relevant Professional Standards and Code of Conduct.

• Clinical Outcomes
• Being confident, autonomous practitioners who take responsibility for the care they give to patients but also take responsibility for overseeing the work of others in the team including less experienced therapists and staff without a professional qualification
• Providing skilled, evidence-based care which adheres to agreed policies and procedures
• Working with patients and families in all stages of the care planning process including assessing risks and needs
• Acting as patient advocates in the multi-disciplinary team and overseeing the work of others to ensure that they are also responding to the needs of patients and providing clinically effective care
• Working as autonomous practitioners and taking responsibility for the care they give to patients but also work as team members
• Creating and Maintaining High Performing Teams
• Communicating well with all members of the team
• Understanding their role in the team and how they help the team achieve its objectives
• Reflecting on their own practice regularly and encouraging the whole team to reflect on their practices in handovers and team meetings
• Encouraging the team to learn from adverse events or respond to data analysis from audits or benchmarking exercises and implement sustainable initiatives which improve clinical outcomes
• Patient Experience
• Working in partnership with patients and their families and carers
• Gaining consent and, as far as possible, involving people in all decision making
• Signposting patients and carers to the courses provided by the Recovery and Wellbeing College or services provided by the local authority or voluntary sector
• Reassuring people by being professional, responsive, knowledgeable and confident
• Demonstrating clinical leadership and challenging any poor behaviour to patients, families or other staff members and creating a positive, inclusive culture in which everyone is treated with kindness and respect and the trust’s values are embedded in all practice
• Responding to complaints or concerns effectively and quickly in line with the Trust policy.
• Supporting Yourself and Others
• Taking a lead role in gathering and recording evidence which demonstrates that CQC and locally agreed standards are being met: assessing the performance of the whole team by using audit and benchmarking exercises and often contribute to the implementation of quality improvement initiatives
• Contributing to the performance management of teams and creating a positive culture in which the team can learn from mistakes and is enthusiastic to improve
• Deputising for the Therapy Lead and ensuring that there is no fall in performance in their absence. This may include managing the team and coordinating shifts.
• To undertake the role of Practice Supervisor
• Providing supervision and annual appraisals to individuals and giving constructive, regular feedback which helps those individuals reflect on their work, understand their objectives and the CQC standards and monitor their progress towards achieving them
• Participating constructively in their own supervision and annual appraisal processes
• Using continuing professional development funds to develop a relevant clinical specialism, gain sign-off mentorship skills or undertake accredited leadership modules.
• Service Specific Responsibilities
• To provide supervision, annual appraisal and monitoring the work of RAS therapists (Band5 &6), therapy assistants and students.
• Complete DATIX investigations and Initial Management Reviews (IMRs), as delegated by the service leads.
• Actively participate/ lead in clinical handover.
• Using Health Roster, participate in rota planning; finalise day to day bank/agency shifts; book temporary workers as required.
• Leadership and Management
• To contribute to the recruitment and selection of staff for the team and to participate in induction and orientation programmes
• To manage and co-ordinate the work of occupational therapists and therapy assistants, monitoring and appraising their performance, offering support, development and training as appropriate.
• To take responsibility for ensuring own mandatory training is up to date and those of the team members are similarly.
• Monitoring Statutory and Mandatory training compliance for supervisees, ensuring where staff are not compliant, there is a plan in place to become compliant.
• To be able to identify and implement formal processes such as capability management; disciplinary action etc.
• To contribute to the successful implementation of organisational directives within the team and the achievement of annual team aims and objectives.
• To continually look for and identify opportunities for improving the service and value for money, so that the overall aims and objectives of the service are achieved without impacting on patient’s quality of care.
• To improve access to services by ensuring that service provision and delivery is culturally appropriate for the targeted client group.
• Support, teach and assess the developing clinical skills of junior team members in response to the changing needs within the localities.
• Promote evidence-based practice that responds to local and national service standards, and to act as a resource to colleagues.
• Maintain an oversight of the weekly / monthly allocations, ensuring staffing is optimal or sent to bank/agency as appropriate.
• Deputise for Therapy Lead when they are unavailable / otherwise engaged / on leave.
• This advert closes on Friday 31 Jul 2026
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