Rotational Occupational Therapist

Job overview

Rotational Occupational Therapist – Band 6 Great Western Hospital, Swindon

The Great Western Hospital is seeking to recruit enthusiastic Band 6 Occupational Therapists to join our dynamic rotational programme. We also welcome applications from current Band 5 Occupational Therapists who are ready to progress into a Band 6 role and further develop their clinical skills.

About the Role

Our Band 6 rotational programme offers the opportunity to gain valuable and diverse experience across key clinical areas, including:

• Orthopaedic Therapy – Trauma and Elective
• Acute Occupational Therapy – Medicine and Surgery
• Front Door Therapy – Emergency Care and Admission Avoidance

Each rotation lasts 9 months, providing a structured yet varied experience while supporting patient flow and service demand across the hospital site.

Why Join Us?

• Broad clinical exposure across multiple specialties
• Structured development to support progression into senior practice
• Opportunity to work within a supportive and experienced multidisciplinary team

Interested?

If you would like to find out more or arrange a brief department walk-around, please get in touch:

• Louise White or Briony Howard
• 📞 01793 646141
• ✉ [email protected]/ [email protected]

We look forward to hearing from you!

Main duties of the job

• The role of the Senior Occupational Therapist is to provide, develop and deliver a specialised and skilled level of Occupational Therapy intervention to each service within the rotation.
• To participate in the Band 6 Rotation Scheme – 9 months within Acute Occupational Therapy, Orthopaedic Therapy and Front Door Therapy Services.
• To be aware of the total therapy needs of the team, the changing demands and take action in consultation with the Team Leaders to fulfil these needs.
• To be able to be proactive at delivering therapeutic interventions within a timely manner to enable patients to maintain their independence, identifying when patients would benefit from further rehabilitation and support services and to refer on to other services appropriately.
• To provide clinical leadership and specialist advice, through the supervision, coaching and education, for less experienced occupational therapists, rehabilitation assistants, students, support workers and other members of the interdisciplinary team.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To participate in the Band 6 Occupational Therapy rotation programme.
• To assist with the continuous service development of the therapy services to provide high quality care and timely intervention.
• To hold responsibility for own case load, working without direct supervision.
• To manage complex diverse cases which may include medical, neurological, traumatic brain injury, surgical, orthopaedic, musculo-skeletal and psychiatric conditions.
• The staff member will be required to work their contracted hours over 7 days a week

Please see attached both job descriptions for full details