# Specialist Occupational Therapist - OPU > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/specialist-occupational-therapist-opu/59746cd7-5c6c-4e0a-8d01-0aed30a9597f - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/specialist-occupational-therapist-opu/59746cd7-5c6c-4e0a-8d01-0aed30a9597f.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Royal United Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Occupational Therapist - **Grade:** Band 6 - **Salary:** £39,959 - £48,117 per annum, pro rata - **Contract type:** 12 months (Fixed term.) - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week (To include weekend working) - **Closing date:** 2026-11-04T08:00:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-10-21T13:40:47.243Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Somerset/Bath/Royal_United_Hospitals_Bath_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Occupational_Therapist_Stroke/Occupational_Therapist_Stroke-v8362099 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8362099?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.ruh.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview Are you an experienced Occupational Therapist with the passion for working with older people? Are you keen to develop on your broad clinical skills in an acute settings? Do you want to develop clinical leadership skills and be involved in exciting service development opportunities? If so, then we are looking for you to join our team! We are a large, vibrant and friendly team of Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists and therapy support workers with a shared vision of supporting patients to do what is important to them and to continue participating in their activities of daily living. This exciting post would provide you with the opportunity to join our Band 6 team, gaining valuable experience, clinical and leadership opportunities in acute. You will be covering our OPU wards to support with maternity leave cover You will be part of the RUH’s progressive and friendly integrated therapies department, where there is a culture of promoting learning and staff and service development. If you would like to know more about the role, please contact Laura Aro OPU OT Team Lead at Laura.Aro@nhs.net ### Main duties of the job You will provide specialist Occupational Therapy assessments and intervention to patients on the OPU wards to optimise independence as support discharge planning. You will provide daily clinical management of Occupational Therapy staff and some junior Physiotherapy staff working with their rotational team and provide supervision to occupational therapy students and apprentices. You will have clinical autonomy and be responsible for the management of their own caseload, have an awareness of the caseload demands within the whole rotational therapy team and allocate clinical capacity according to service demands. This will enable you to co-ordinate the daily service delivery across the hospital in the most effective way. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Please find attached to the vacancy a detailed person specification and job description for further information about this role. ### 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. ## Person Specification ### Qualifications **Essential** - Diploma/Degree in Occupational Therapy - Current HCPC registration - Appropriate post graduate training ### Specific Skills **Essential** - Demonstrate effective written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills. - Up to date with professional and evidence based practice - Assessment and management of cognitive deficits, including use of outcome measures. - Effective leadership skills - Effective time management and organisational skills and ability to work under pressure ### Knowledge and experience **Essential** - Practical experience and knowledge of clinical conditions relevant to area of work. - At least 18 months post-qualification experience, including in acute care - Experience of working within NHS - Experience of student and therapy assistant supervision - Significant experience of working with and discharge planning for patients with complex needs including patients at the end of their life - Experience in leading complex discharges from acute setting ## Documents - [join the ruh (pdf, 1.3mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=3030) - [job description b6 ot opu (pdf, 464.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10702204) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.