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Job requirements
Essential
5 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Skills
Good personal organisational skills • Demonstrates initiative • Proven ability to build effective working relationships • Presentation and training skills • AF /I • Initiates innovative ideas for practice • Good interpersonal skills • Ability to work autonomously and set own priorities • Ability to analyse professional and ethical issues • Supervisory/ annual review skills. • Therapeutic moving and handling knowledge/skills • Ability to organise and respond efficiently/ effectively to complex information • Computer literacy • Working with high risk patients palliative, COPD
- Knowledge
Specialist knowledge and application of OT assessments and interventions relevant to client group • Understanding of OT outcome measures • Knowledge and understanding of basic standardised assessments • Knowledge of OT models of practice/clinical guidelines • Detailed knowledge of the principles of clinical governance and its application
- Experience
Documented evidence of Continuing professional development • Significant post registration experience within physical health over a range of different settings • Experience of Health & Safety/ Risk management • Experience of audit procedures
- Qualifications
Diploma/degree in OT/HPC reg • Field work education accreditation within one year of appointment • Post graduate diploma/training relevant to physical conditions or equivalent experience • Current HCPC Registration
- Commitment to Trust Values and Behaviours
Must be able to demonstrate behaviours consistent with the Trust’s values. (As detailed in UHCW’s Values in Action document below) • Applicants applying for job roles with managerial responsibility will be required to demonstrate evidence of promoting equal opportunities through work experience
Desirable
4 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Skills
Presentation and training skills
- Knowledge
Knowledge and application of specialist Standardised assessments
- Experience
Experience of a range of physical health settings • Supervision of junior staff and students • Leadership and first line management experience • Experience in change management • Community experience
- Qualifications
Documented evidence of Continuing professional development • Significant post registration experience within physical health over a range of different settings • Experience of Health & Safety/ Risk management • Experience of audit procedures
Job overview
Are you an experienced band 5 wanting to develop your skills and progress your career, or currently a band 6 that is passionate about helping people leave hospital with the right support, at the right time, and in the right place? Do you thrive in fast-paced, team-focused environments where your clinical skills directly change lives?
Our Integrated Discharge Team (IDT) is at the heart of smooth patient transitions from hospital to home or other care settings. We bring together the expertise of health and social care professionals to make sure each discharge is safe, timely, and tailored to the individual’s needs.
As an Occupational Therapist, you’ll use your specialist skills to assess functional needs, plan discharge pathways, and coordinate support that promotes independence and dignity. You’ll work alongside a supportive, multi-disciplinary team that includes nurses, physiotherapists, social workers, and community partners – all committed to seamless, patient-centred care.
Please note that the interview will be held at the beginning of November 2026.
Closing Date: Please be advised that this job advert will close as soon as sufficient applications have been received. Please apply for this job as soon as you can, if interested.
Successful applicants will be required to provide an immunisation and vaccination report, from either their current UK occupational health provider or their UK GP.
Main duties of the job
- To assess, plan and coordinate safe, timely discharges via the most appropriate discharge pathway to meet the patients' required needs.
- Manage a caseload of patients with varying diagnosis and or /complex needs with a range of disabilities including physical, learning and mental health disabilities.
- To educate and train the team on the role of OT and provide day to day management for junior staff, ensuring supervision and annual review.
- To participate in the planning, development and evaluation of the discharge team service within the acute trust and the wider integrated services.
- Take a lead for information management to ensure high quality data which is recorded, evaluated & reported in a timely manner.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- To plan and implement appropriate discharges through comprehensive holistic assessments and knowledge of discharge pathways, working 5 days across 7 working days
- Manage a caseload of patients with varying diagnosis and or /complex needs with a range of disabilities including physical, learning and mental health disabilities,
- To educate and train the team on the role of OT and provide day to day management for junior staff, ensuring supervision and annual review.
- To participate in the planning, development and evaluation of the discharge team service and within the acute trust and the wider integrated services.
- Take a lead for information management to ensure high quality data which is recorded, evaluated & reported in a timely manner.
For further details please see job description attached.
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.
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This advert is for Occupational Therapist, Integrated Discharge Team with University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust in Coventry, England. It is listed as a Band 6 Occupational Therapist role. The advertised salary is £39,959 - £48,117 per annum pro rata. The contract type is Permanent: To include weekend, bank holiday and on call duties. The application deadline is 18 Oct 2026.
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