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Job requirements
Requirements from the employer’s person specification. These describe the role, not your personal match.
Essential
12 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Experience
Experience must include working within a community service / rehab / neurology or long-term conditions
- Experience
Experience of working as part of an Occupational Therapy team and the wider MDT.
- Experience
Experience of delegating to and supervising Occupational Therapy students and junior staff members.
- Experience
Contribution to the clinical education of less experienced staff/ undergraduate Occupational Therapists.
- Communication
Able to adhere to Trust and Departmental documentation standards. Able to write complex patient reports
- Communication
Able to communicate effectively in face-to-face contact, telephone contact, e-mail contact and internal and external meetings.
- Qualifications
Degree/Diploma in Occupational Therapy
- Qualifications
Registered with HCPC
- Personal Qualities
Able to work as a team member
- Personal Qualities
Able to demonstrate initiative and commitment to self-directed learning
- Management experience
Able to organise and prioritise own caseload
- Management experience
Able to organise, supervise and delegate tasks to support workers
Desirable
2 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Experience
Involvement in audit and research
- Qualifications
Member of specialist section with RCOT
Job overview
Are you a dynamic, experienced Occupational Therapist with a passion for providing excellent care to residents in care homes and enhanced assessment beds? An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced band 5 or established band 6 Occupational Therapist to strengthen the Care Homes Team at Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust. We cover Sandwell care homes, Harvest View and other Enhanced Assessment Beds across the borough.
As part of your role, you will ensure best quality therapy for residents in both care homes and enhanced assessment beds, delivering effective treatment and rehabilitation. You will support the Team Lead Occupational Therapist’s in establishing and developing pathways and services provided to those in enhanced assessment beds and care homes. This will support delivery of specialist assessment, rehabilitation and discharge planning. You will work as part of an established multidisciplinary including Physiotherapist’s, Occupational Therapists, Therapy Support Worker’s, ACP’s, Nurses, and Speech and Language Therapist’s to meet the complex needs of our patients. The care homes team provides a 7 day therapy service to our patients.
As a Trust, we will support your training and development objectives and encourage networking with peers across the region. You will play a key role in supporting Physiotherapy education and clinical competency within the Care Homes Therapy Team.
Main duties of the job
To undertake a comprehensive assessment of patients within enhanced assessment beds and in care homes, including those with diverse or complex presentations; using advanced clinical reasoning skills.
- To formulate and deliver patient specific Occupational therapy programmes based on patients goals and needs. This will include groupwork sessions including breakfast groups and exercises classes etc.
- To evaluate patient progress, reassess and alter treatment programmes if required and to set patient centered goals.
- To support the discharge process working as part of a multidisciplinary team to facilitate discharges from Harvest View and EAB beds. This will include completing post discharge assessments in the individual's own home.
- To attend MDT meetings and feedback on patient plans and progress.
- To provide effective daily guidance and supervision for junior staff including Support Workers.
- To be a clinical educator and support students undertaking placements within the team.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details of what this role entails
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.
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This advert is for Senior Occupational Therapist with Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust in Birmingham, England. It is listed as a Band 6 Occupational Therapist role. The advertised salary is £39,959 - £48,117 per annum. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 16 Sep 2026.
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