# Highly specialised occupational therapist > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/highly-specialised-occupational-therapist/1f3d9398-b009-4555-9eac-beac06220e83 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/highly-specialised-occupational-therapist/1f3d9398-b009-4555-9eac-beac06220e83.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Royal Free Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Occupational Therapist - **Grade:** Band 7 - **Salary:** £55,524 - £62,652 Outer London HCAS pro rata, per annum - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Part time - 18.75 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-09-28T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-09-16T11:31:08.486Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/Edmonton/Royal_Free_London_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Occupational_Therapist/Occupational_Therapist-v8294658 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8294658?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.royalfree.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview This role offers an exciting opportunity to further develop the Enfield Proactive Care Service Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT) model and contribute to the design and delivery of an exemplary Integrated Neighbourhood Team (INT) To deliver a high standard of Occupational Therapy care to patients/clients and their families/carers within a community setting, ensuring services are responsive to the needs of a diverse and multicultural population. To work alongside senior colleagues in providing specialist Occupational Therapy expertise and advice to the wider service and multidisciplinary teams. To ensure that all Occupational Therapy assessments are completed within agreed service timescales and quality standards. To be responsible for the day-to-day coordination and delivery of Occupational Therapy interventions within the service, managing a designated caseload and providing care in accordance with service specifications. ### Main duties of the job To support, educate and empower patients and their carers to manage complex rehabilitation and Occupational Therapy needs, enabling them to maximise independence and effectively manage their condition. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities See JD and PS for further information to include the following: - The Post Holder will provide highly complex and specialist assessments and interventions which promote optimum recovery using a personalised care approach to support patients to achieve their goals, addressing physical and emotional well-being needs - ensuring that a high-quality holistic service is delivered in an area with a fast developing evidence base. - To determine the most appropriate setting for assessment and or treatment e.g. community, , home. - To be responsible for organising and planning workload and manging caseload to meet service and patient priorities, readjusting plans as situations develop. - Make highly skilled evaluations and decisions about functional, cognitive, emotional well-being, motor and social recovery with a focus on fatigue management and enhanced coping strategies. - Use evidence-based practice and client centred principles to assess, plan, implement and evaluate interventions. - To demonstrate advanced clinical reasoning skills, experience and knowledge of evidence-based practice to determine treatment plan using a wide range of treatment skills and options. - To be able to identify own professional limitations and seek professional advice when necessary. - To undertake responsibility and leadership for completion and implementation of clinical projects, audit or research. ### 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 ### Other **Essential** - - Car for work use - - UK Driving license ### Experience **Essential** - - Extensive experience working within related field of physical or mental health recovery and rehabilitation - - Experience of working within healthcare systems, pathways and services - - Experience of conducting formal and informal teaching - - Inter-professional and multi-agency team working - - Experience of delivering and interpreting a broad range of standardised and non- standardised assessments ### Skills and aptitudes **Essential** - - Ability to use highly specialised clinical reasoning skills to facilitate appropriate pathway management to maximise patient independence and functional ability - - Advanced assessment and intervention skills relevant to the clinical setting - - Must be able to present complex and sensitive information to large and influential groups - - Ability to negotiate on difficult and controversial issues when required. ### Personal Qualities & attributes **Essential** - - Self-motivated and capable of motivating others. - - Ability to work collaboratively within the multidisciplinary team. - - Able to set priorities and deliver against targets. ### Education & professional Qualifications **Essential** - - Degree/Diploma in Occupational Therapy and on the HCPC Registration - - Evidence of attendance on post-graduate courses and advanced training to Masters level equivalence or equivalent experience ## Documents - [highly specialist occupational therapist (pdf, 440.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10613316) - [highly specialist occupational therapist (pdf, 680.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10613317) - [allied health professional - benefits, about rfl, shared commitments and governing objectives (pdf, 637.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2752) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.