Rotational Band 5 Occupational Therapist

Job overview

Do you have a passion for Occupational Therapy (OT)? Are you looking for a great trust in which to start your career, or perhaps you are looking to build upon your existing Band 5 experience? If so, we would love to offer you an opportunity to work as a Band 5 OT in our highly respected and truly unique mixed rotation hosted by Homerton Healthcare NHS Trust and our mental health partners at East London Foundation Trust.

Our rotations include:

• The Elderly Care Unit, patients love our reminiscence groups
• Surgical Rehabilitation Team, our award winning early discharge service
• Acute Medical Team, work on our Intensive Care Unit
• Adult Community Rehabilitation Team, where you can develop splinting skills
• Community Neurological Rehabilitation, where you can experience Vocational Rehabilitation
• Stroke Unit, regularly scores highest in London for delivering intensive Stroke rehabilitation
• Our Rapid Response Team in London’s best performing A&E
• Regional Neurological Rehabilitation Unit, will develop your cognitive assessment and rehabilitation skills
• Paediatrics assessing and treating children at home and at school
• Mental Health Care of Older People, working alongside a specialist dementia care team
• Learning Difficulties, assessing and treating people with complex behaviour needs
• Acute Inpatient Psychiatry, develop your mental health assessment skills within recovery focus groups and 1:1 sessions
• Community Mental Health Services, CQC rated outstanding

Main duties of the job

Take responsibility for managing a client caseload, prioritising as appropriate.

Undertake holistic client-centred occupational therapy assessments using appropriate occupational therapy models of practice and assessment tools working as an autonomous practitioner.

Plan occupational therapy interventions and rehabilitation programmes using a goal oriented approach.

Monitor and evaluate progress and adapt therapy interventions as appropriate

We are proud of the opportunities we offer our Band 5 Occupational Therapists (OT). Our Band 5 training program focuses on making sure you have practical OT skills and develop those early on in the rotation to improve your confidence. We are also proud of our preceptorship program, our attitude towards supervision and support from our senior OTs. We believe we are also skilled at developing senior Band 5’s prior to moving onto Band 6 posts. There are also numerous opportunities to be involved in quality improvement initiatives, case study research and developing students.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s on this page.

The person specification below is not the full person specification but outlines the criteria against which your application form will be assessed.

Please only apply if you will be qualified, HCPC registered and ready to start employment by January 2026.

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.