# Band 5 Occupational Therapy - Rotational programme

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust
- **Location:** Kingston Hospital
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Occupational Therapist
- **Grade:** Band 5
- **Salary:** £36,943 - £44,900 Pro rata, pa, incl. HCAS
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week (weekend working 1 in 6)
- **Closing date:** 2026-09-29T22:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-09-15T14:00:28.236Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/Kingston_upon_Thames/Kingston_Richmond_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Occupational_Therapist/Occupational_Therapist-v8244599
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8244599?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.kingstonandrichmond.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

The Band 5 rotational Occupational Therapy post offers newly qualified Occupational Therapists the opportunity of gaining experience in a variety of acute inpatient clinical settings including care of the elderly, stroke, specialist medicine and orthopaedics & surgery. The post holder will provide high quality occupational therapy assessments and interventions to a wide variety of patients in liaison with the multidisciplinary team and community partners.

### Main duties of the job

- To be professionally and legally accountable for all aspects of own clinical and professional work, including the management of patients in your care; 2. To undertake comprehensive occupational therapy assessments of patients with a range of health and social care needs for presentations including but not limited to; medical and respiratory pathologies, orthopaedic and musculoskeletal conditions, gastrointestinal conditions, frailty, falls and stroke; 3. To gather relevant medical, clinical and social information and analyse and interpret all information gained to guide intervention; 4. Formulate and deliver an occupational therapy treatment programme based on sound knowledge of evidence based practice and treatment options, using clinical assessment and reasoning skills; 5. To plan and implement individual and/or group interventions, in collaboration with patients, using graded activity to achieve their therapeutic goals;

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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### Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

## Person Specification

### skills

**Essential**

- Ability to complete goal setting, planning, intervention & evaluation as part of OT process
- Ability to complete functional assessments to support OT process
- Ability to prioritise, organise and delegate.

**Desirable**

- Ability to work as a team
- Ability to reflect and critically appraise own performance

### Experience

**Essential**

- Use of functional assessment and activity analysis
- Application of the OT process

**Desirable**

- Experience of working within a multidisciplinary and/or occupational therapy team
- Experience of working with people in a health or social services environment

### Qualifications

**Essential**

- HPCP registration
- Diploma/Degree in Occupational Therapy

## Documents

- [onboarding roadmap (pdf, 440.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=2464)
- [b5 ot job description (pdf, 808.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10555960)
- [ai toolkit for candidates (pdf, 1.9mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=2412)

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