Occupational Therapy Assistant

Job overview

We are delighted to offer an Occupational Therapy Assistant position in the Occupational Therapy team.

Occupational Therapy is a rewarding career which requires a highly developed knowledge and professional skill-set to enable you to work across a range of settings and environments.

Within Addenbrookes Hospital Occupational Therapists work across a broad range of specialisms including Treatment of older people, Medicine, Trauma and Orthopaedics, Stroke, Neurosciences, Major Trauma, Surgery and Oncology, Hand Therapy, Rheumatology and Pain.

We see patients from all different ages and backgrounds from young children to end of life. Occupational Therapists work to facilitate a patient’s discharge from hospital through enabling patients to maintain or improve their functional ability. In outpatients Occupational Therapists support patients to maintain their independence through, education, practical techniques and advice or devices, and splinting.

Main duties of the job

Occupational Therapy Assistants  will work under the supervision and guidance of a qualified Occupational Therapist.

You will carry out patient treatments and deliver goal plans set following assessment by an Occupational Therapist. This will include working on patients’ performance in completing or participating in activities of daily living. You will work closely with the Occupational Therapists and other members of the team in enabling patients to maintain or improve their function.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached Applicant Information Pack (combined Job Description and Person Specification) for key duties and responsibilities.

Please be aware that the salary threshold required for a certificate of sponsorship to be granted is above the starting point of the Agenda for Change band for this role. Therefore those that are new to the NHS may not reach the minimum salary threshold required to obtain a certificate of sponsorship.

Due to Home Office immigration rules, a full time permanent vacancy cannot be filled by individuals on a Student visa. Therefore, please be advised that if you are a Student visa holder, we will not be able to offer you a full time permanent contract unless you have: -    applied for a Graduate visa -    or you will have successfully completed your course and have applied for a Graduate visa before the anticipated start date of your employment

The advert will close midnight on 8th June 2026.

Interviews are due to be held from 24th-25th June 2026.

Benefits to you

At Cambridge University Hospitals, we want to do all we can to support good working days. We offer development opportunities and a wide range of benefits, including on-site leisure facilities, shopping concourse and day nurseries. Our good work programme currently includes providing reduced cost Stagecoach bus travel to and from Cambridge University Hospital site. Park and Ride bus journeys between Babraham Road and Trumpington sites are free, as is the route to and from Cambridge train station and our hospitals. We also subsidise the cost of parking on site for eligible staff.

On CUH campus, hot food is available 24/7 and at a reduced cost for colleagues. Recently we launched the first of our staff pod break spaces. Located in the Deakin Centre, we have a purpose-created colleague-only café, with free tea and coffee, a break space and private outside area for colleagues to rest, refuel and recharge. Just one of the ways we are working hard to support good working days at CUH.

CUH is committed to assisting employees in achieving a good work-life balance irrespective of role or personal circumstances. Flexible arrangements may include, but are not limited to, part-time working, job-share, term-time working and flexible start and finish times.

Please note if you would like to discuss the required hours of this role further, you should approach the contact given. In some cases, alternative working hours will be considered.

We welcome applications from the Armed Forces.