# Occupational Therapist - Rotational

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
- **Location:** Wexham Park Hospital
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Occupational Therapist
- **Grade:** Band 5
- **Salary:** £33,677 - £40,996 per annum incl HCAS
- **Contract type:** Permanent: Weekend working a part of a rostered working pattern
- **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- **Closing date:** 2026-10-28T23:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-10-21T13:10:30.375Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Surrey/Slough/Frimley_Health_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Occupational_Therapy/Occupational_Therapy-v8376116
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8376116?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.fhft.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

Are you

- Passionate about top class patient care with a belief that every day matters?
- Qualifying this year, just starting your career or looking for new learning opportunities?
- Ready for a new challenge?
- Thinking about return to practice?
- Driven to promote the value of Occupational Therapy and therefore influence the narrative of OT for future generations?
- Committed to making a brighter future within the NHS?

Do you want

- To learn in a fast-paced hospital setting?
- Grow your leadership skills as well as your clinical skills?
- Work with a diverse team with wide knowledge and experience?
- Develop your knowledge and skill with support from peers, specialists, clinical educators, and experienced Occupational Therapy leaders?

We can offer:

- An acute and out patient rotation providing you with diverse experiences including Medicine, Orthopaedics, Surgery, Elderly Rehabilitation, A&E, Stroke, Hand Therapy, Community inpatient rehabilitation and Community based therapy (site dependent).
- Excellent learning opportunities with a high level of support and supervision and appraisal from senior colleagues.
- Peer support from a large group of colleagues on the rotation.
- A multi-professional preceptorship programme.

### Main duties of the job

- Responsibilities are in clinical management of patients and relevant paperwork.
- Contribute to the continued development and maintenance of efficiency and safety in the Occupational Therapy (OT) Department.
- Be flexible at times of increased capacity to the service. Rotation may include:
- FPH – Surgery, Orthopaedic, Medical, Frailty, A&E, Acute & Hyperacute stroke, Community rehabilitation (in-patient), Community*
- WPH – Acute Medical, Older Persons Medicine, Stroke, Neuro, Orthopaedic, Surgery, ED, Palliative, Hand Therapy*
- *May be dependent on experience.
- Hours of work are determined by service need, which includes rostered 7 day working, and vary across rotations.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further information regarding the detailed job description and main responsibilities, please refer to the attached job description and person specification documents.

### 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

### Experience

**Essential**

- Experience of work as an OT or placement as an OT student within the acute hospital setting.
- Worked (could be as a student) in some of the following areas: Acute Medicine, Orthopaedics, Surgery, Elderly Care, A&E, Neurology, Hands, Community rehab.

**Desirable**

- Experience using of an electronic patient care system.
- Experience of research and audit.

### Qualifications

**Essential**

- Degree or Diploma in OT
- HCPC registration
- Documented evidence of CPD.

### Skills & Knowledge

**Essential**

- Good organisational skills
- Ability to work single-handedly with individuals and groups
- Effective written and oral communication skills
- Group work skills
- Ability to manage own workload and determine priorities, relevant to acute physical hospital setting
- Be able to work under pressure

**Desirable**

- Presentation skills
- Training and facilitation skills

## Documents

- [trust values (pdf, 577.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=736)
- [occupational therapist – rotation (doc, 669.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10713750)

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