Senior Occupational Therapist

Job overview

Are you an experienced Occupational Therapist in physical rehab? Are you looking for a role that can offer you consistent personal and professional development?

Step Up to Lead: Are you an experienced Occupational Therapist with a focus on physical health? Do you want to take the next step in your career, guiding a community team while staying hands-on with patient care?

We’re looking for a passionate OT to join us as Senior Occupational Therapist for our Wokingham Community Hospital Inpatients Unit, a friendly and supportive community-based physical health service. The unit includes two wards helping adult patients recover from surgery or acute medical conditions as they prepare to return home.

What makes this role different?

• Support a team of OTs while managing a smaller personal caseload. Your focus will be on mentoring junior staff and assisting with more complex cases.
• Collaborate for better care: Work closely with the Therapy Team Leads to develop and improve patient care.
• Working pattern: Enjoy standard Monday to Friday hours (currently no weekends or evenings).

The ideal candidate will be a registered Occupational Therapist with an interest in the rehabilitation of older adults, have great organisational skills and enjoy team working.

Main duties of the job

• To provide clinical leadership and specialist advice, through supervision, education of students, Band 5, Occupational Therapy Assistants, support workers and other members of the interdisciplinary team.
• To identify service developments, needs, contribute to the planning, development and evaluation of the service, and have responsibility for defined projects.
• To be responsible for a highly complex caseload using an interdisciplinary, patient focused rehabilitative approach.
• To provide highly skilled and specialist assessments of occupational performance, plan, implement and evaluate evidence-based client centred intervention maintaining the associated records in compliance with the standards from the College of Occupational Therapy and the Trust.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The “must haves” for this role:

• Degree in Occupational Therapy with up-to-date HCPC registration
• Previous experience within an Inpatient Therapy setting
• Car driver with access to vehicle for work purposes

For further information about the role, please see attached job description and person specification. Your application is your opportunity to demonstrate to us how you meet the requirements of the role. We recognise that AI tools can support accessibility, equity and confidence for applicants. However, it’s important that examples and responses given in your supporting statement genuinely reflect your own experience and abilities, as these will be explored further during the selection process. AI must not be used to provide misleading or false information during any stage of the application journey.

In addition to explaining how you meet the person specification, you must complete your employment history for at least the last five years. Any experience, skills or responsibilities referenced in your supporting statement should be evidenced within your employment history. Applications that do not include sufficient employment history to support the experience claimed may not be shortlisted.

We’re committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community. Our commitment to inclusion is reflected in our accreditations: Stonewall Proud Employer, Race Equality Matters Silver Trailblazer, Neurodiversity in Business Corporate Member, Disability Confident Leader, Carer Confident Level 2, and the Armed Forces Covenant Gold Award. Reasonable adjustments will be provided to candidates as needed.

We welcome a conversation about flexibility and any other questions you may have. Please don’t hesitate to call: Rhys Amos on 07770543828 or email: rhys.amos@berkshire.nhs.uk who’ll be delighted to help.

Please note, if we receive a high number of applications, we may close this role earlier than the advertised closing date, so please submit your application as soon as possible.

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.