Senior Occupational Therapist

Job overview

As a Band 6 Occupational Therapist within orthopaedic and medical wards, you will provide advanced, patient‑centred assessment and rehabilitation for individuals recovering from fractures, joint replacements, spinal injuries, complex trauma, acute medical conditions, and functional decline. You will use enhanced clinical reasoning to deliver evidence‑based interventions that promote independence, optimise functional outcomes, and support safe, timely discharge.

You will manage a varied  complex caseload with a high degree of autonomy, demonstrating strong decision‑making in areas such as discharge planning, equipment prescription, environmental modification, and risk management.

You will provide supervision, guidance, and informal training to Band 5 OTs, support workers, and students, helping to build clinical capability across the team. You will actively participate in audit, quality improvement, and pathway development to enhance patient flow and rehabilitation standards across orthopaedic and medical wards.

This role requires confident communication, adaptability in a fast‑paced environment, and the ability to balance clinical leadership with hands‑on patient care. You will play a key part in ensuring patients receive high‑quality, holistic rehabilitation that supports their recovery and long‑term wellbeing.

There will be an expectation that you will participate in the 7 day working rota.

Main duties of the job

Perform advanced Occupational Therapy assessment of patients with diverse presentations and complex physical and psychological conditions. Use advanced clinical reasoning skills to provide a diagnosis and to develop and deliver an individualised treatment programme.

Responsible for managing own caseload and a defined area of the service, working without direct supervision.

Supervise, educate and assess students, assistants and Band 5 staff and provide specialised advice to other health care professionals in the specific clinical area.

Undertake evidence-based audit and research projects to further develop own clinical practice and development of the service area. Make recommendations on changes to practice to the clinical lead/manager. May lead the implementation of specific changes to practice or contribute to development of service protocols.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For more detailed information, please read the job description linked below.

As a Trust we are keen to offer and encourage flexible working opportunities to address health and wellbeing and work-life balance for our employees, this will have a positive impact on the care we provide.

Flexible working is part of a wider commitment to improve the quality and experience of working life and we recognise that it is a key contributor for the recruitment and retention of our employees.

We therefore support and encourage open conversations around a specific working pattern to suit your work-life balance or a multi-role career, if it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.

Local flexible working arrangements are developed in partnership between the line manager and employee in order to ensure equality of access to flexible working, as far as practicable, regardless of role, shift pattern, team or pay, based on: patient/service user and staff experience, service delivery and work-life balance of colleagues.

We are committed to creating and maintaining a fair and supportive working environment and culture, where contributions are fully recognised and valued by all and staff feel empowered to carry out their duties to the best of their abilities. As employers we are committed to promoting and protecting the physical and mental health and well-being of all our staff. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution, supports us to be an Employer of Choice and ultimately enables our employees to support the effective care of our patients.

We strongly value the different perspectives and ideas a diverse workforce brings to deliver better outcomes for our patients.  We welcome applications irrespective of people’s age, disability, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.

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