Band 8a Clinical Lead Occupational Therapist Oncology and Medical

A Vacancy at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust.

This is an exciting time to be working at the Royal Free London NHS Foundation one of the biggest NHS Trusts in the UK, delivering care to more than 1.6 million people a year through our three main hospitals: Barnet, Chase Farm and Royal Free.

We are looking for an experienced Occupational Therapist to lead and develop our therapy team on the oncology ward at the Hampstead site as well as support the therapy team in medical specialties, including infectious diseases, respiratory and cardiology.

You would be required to provide clinical leadership to a team of Occupational Therapists, physiotherapists, dietitians and therapy assistants. You will also be part of the leadership team for Occupational Therapy, developing the service in the trust.

The successful candidate is required to demonstrate the Trust values, the responsibilities of the job description and person specification. In particular you should have proven experience of leading teams and be willing to work in new and innovative ways. This is an exciting time to be joining the therapy team at the Royal Free, as we are developing new ways of working, especially in Occupational Therapy.

If you believe you meet the criteria of the person specification, we would welcome your application.

To find out more about working at the Royal Free please visit our website at: www.royalfree.nhs.uk/jobs

Please contact Deborah Ferreira on 02077940500 ext 34707 or deborah.ferreira@nhs.net

· As an autonomous practitioner, provides highly specialist OT interventions for own caseload of complex oncology and medical inpatients. This includes respiratory, cardiology, infectious diseases and oncology.

· To be responsible for the ongoing development of the non-surgical pre-optimisation pathway for therapy services.

· To provide clinical leadership to the complex medical and oncology inpatient team Occupational Therapists and Physiotherapist and Dietitians for both inpatient and outpatient services.

· To be responsible for the safe, effective and timely provision of a therapy service to oncology and medical inpatients at The Royal Free Hospital.

· To have responsibility for the clinical supervision of senior occupational therapists working in the medical specialties at the Royal Free Hospital.

· To have responsibility for supporting clinical audit, research, and QI within therapy services and with our MDT colleagues.

· To implement best practice guidelines within the acute OT service (in own service and in collaboration with other OT Clinical Leads across all acute inpatient areas).

· To work collaboratively with all members of the MDT (internal and external partners), including medical, nursing, discharge and operational staff to support national and local NHS strategies impacting oncology and medical patients.

** For full details please see attached Job Description and Person Specification**

The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s biggest and most innovative trusts. Across three main hospitals, our dedicated army of staff care for over 1.6million patients, treat more than 200,000 in A&E, deliver over 8,000 babies and carry out more than 17million tests.

Our size, scale and influence offer you unrivalled career opportunities and a forward-thinking approach to working that works around your lifestyle. From flexible hours and generous benefits, to next level training, we make it easier to take your career to the top

Therapy Services has a high profile within the Trust, being firmly committed to quality improvement, audit, service evaluation and improvement. We undertake yearly presentations of our achievements for the year; undertaking PDSA and QI projects to ensure we are delivering the most effective, safe and high quality service.

For more information please follow link https://www.royalfreelondonjobs.co.uk/

Please see the attached Job Description document which will provide a more detailed description of role and main responsibilities.

This advert closes on Tuesday 9 Jun 2026