# Occupational Therapist > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/occupational-therapist/c253ce70-c049-4885-9870-2624b990cbeb - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/occupational-therapist/c253ce70-c049-4885-9870-2624b990cbeb.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** Preston - **Region:** North West - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Occupational Therapist - **Grade:** Band 5 - **Salary:** £32,073 - £39,043 per annum, pro rata - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-07-28T08:00:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-07-21T13:00:49.086Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Lancashire/Preston/Lancashire_Teaching_Hospitals_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Occupational_Therapy/Occupational_Therapy-v8130658 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8130658?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.lancsteachinghospitals.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview Are you about to qualify as an Occupational Therapist and scouring NHS jobs for your first post? Are you already working as a Band 5 and looking for a new challenge or a change of scenery? Then today is your lucky day! We have a vacancy for a Band 5 OT to join our rotation! We’re really proud of our rotation because, alongside areas like medicine, stroke and surgery, we have a number of unique and interesting specialities such as hand therapy, orthotics, neurosurgery and the emergency department.  If that wasn’t enough we’ve also recently added critical care to our rotation. There really is something for everyone. We’re really lucky that our trust recognises the value of the therapy workforce and the important work we do to improve our patients functional outcomes. ### Main duties of the job Our Band 5 rotation will give you the opportunity to build on your core OT skills creating solid foundations for the rest of your career. You’ll see the OT process from start to finish and be able to further develop your clinical reasoning. The pace is fast and exciting and we promise there’ll be no time to be bored. On a daily basis you’ll be attending board rounds, prioritising patients and completing assessments, treatment and discharge planning to increase patient flow. As OT’s our main aim is to increase our patients functional independence so we love to complete functional assessments which allow us to problem solve and find new ways for our patients to complete day to day tasks on their own. You’ll also be liaising with the multi disciplinary team and working closely with your physiotherapy colleagues and therapy support workers. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities To be great at this job we think you need good written and verbal communication skills and to be able to demonstrate flexibility and initiative. Excellent interpersonal skills, an aptitude for team working and being able to support the Trusts values and behaviours are pretty high up on our list too. We know that adapting to your first band 5 post can be pretty tough so we have lots of things in place to make sure you’ll feel supported including; a band 5 forum, a buddy system and a comprehensive competency framework. We also understand that university doesn’t prepare you for every bit of your new role so we have in-service training in each individual team as well as Cognitive and Perceptual training each month led by our Occupational Therapy team. This training covers areas such as attention, memory, insight, capacity and challenging behaviour and will provide you with the skills required to manage cognitively impaired patients on your ward.  We are always looking to develop our service and this is something we’d love you to be involved in with our team meetings being a great place for us all to share and expand our ideas. Like all NHS trusts we recognise the need for enhanced provision and Core Therapies are looking to move towards 7 day working and as such you’ll be expected to support this model of care. We have a variety of work patterns across the rotation with some areas already working 7 days whilst others cover 5 days. If delivering high quality care and making a personal difference to your patients lives is what makes you tick then come and join our great team! Please note we are unable to provide relocation packages for overseas applicants. ## Person Specification ### Knowledge and Experience **Essential** - Range of relevant clinical experience - Evidence of learning from reflection on relevant work experience - Experience in Acute and / or Rehabilitation Hospital settings - A broad range of experience at undergraduate level including managing medical, surgical, neurological and mental health conditions - Evidence and understanding of CPD ### Qualifications and Education **Essential** - H.C.P.C.Registration - Occupational Therapy degree/diploma **Desirable** - Member of a Professional Body ## Documents - [what we can offer you (pdf, 6.7mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2464) - [creating your best application (pdf, 6.1mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2433) - [job description and person specification (pdf, 688.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10427949) ## 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.