Rotational Occupational Therapist

Job overview

Rotational Occupational Therapist

Division: Cancer and Core Clinical Support Services

Care Group: Diagnostics & Therapies

Band: 5

Salary: £31,049 - £37,796 per annum/pro rata

Interview Date: 21st December 2025

We are recruiting for a Rotational Occupational Therapist who shares our ambition and vision to deliver the Best of Care by the Best People and has the drive to take us forward, by ensuring that the Trust continues to be the first choice for patients and our staff.

Our values are Bold, Every Person Counts, Sharing and Open and Together. It is important that you understand and to refer to our values when completing your application and always reflect our values throughout your employment with the Trust.

Main duties of the job

The successful post holder will provide Occupational Therapy interventions to patients, working as part of a specialty therapy team on a rotational basis.

Our diverse rotations include: Frailty wards, Older Persons wards, Surgical specialities, Orthopaedics - Trauma and Elective, Front Door - ED and assessment wards, and Cardio-respiratory wards.

As a Rotational Occupational Therapist you will maintain appropriate communication with the OT/Physio Team Leads supervising the rotation, participating in regular supervision of caseload and seeking advice when appropriate .

In addition, you will communicate effectively with patients and carers and other health care professionals using a wide range of verbal and non-verbal communication tools to share assessment findings, agree treatment plans, progress rehabilitation, give advice, teaching etc. This will include patients with communication and comprehension difficulties and those who may be unable to accept diagnosis /prognosis.

We are committed to endorsing diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion; our policies / procedures ensure that all applicants are treated fairly at every stage of the recruitment process.

To contribute to our exciting future and become part of our team, apply today.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To be professionally and legally accountable for all aspects of own work including responsibility of an allocated patient caseload /workload.

To undertake assessment, standardised and non-standardised, of patients including those with diverse and complex presentations and conditions: using clinical reasoning skills and assessment techniques to formulate individualised treatment plans and programmes.

To deliver individualised Occupational Therapy intervention and treatment programmes using a broad range of Occupational therapy skills in individual and group settings.

To continually reassess patient progress, adapting treatment plans accordingly, and developing discharge plans.

To refer patients appropriately to other health and social care services according to protocol providing timely and detailed information to ensure good continuity of care.