# Specialist Occupational Therapist > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/specialist-occupational-therapist/0e040593-e1d0-4729-abe3-c62a059c9181 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/specialist-occupational-therapist/0e040593-e1d0-4729-abe3-c62a059c9181.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** Peterborough - **Region:** East of England - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Occupational Therapist - **Grade:** Band 6 - **Salary:** £39,959 - £48,117 pro rata per annum - **Contract type:** 10 months (Fixed Term / Secondment until June 2027) - **Employment type:** Part time - 24 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-07-30T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-07-16T10:13:03.502Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Cambridgeshire/Peterborough/North_West_Anglia_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Occupational_Therapy/Occupational_Therapy-v8160300 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8160300?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.nwangliaft.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview An exciting  fixed term/secondment opportunity to cover maternity leave until June 2027, has arisen for a part time Specialist Occupational Therapist to join The Trauma and Orthopaedic Therapy Team. The Team is based across 2 sites: elective surgery at Hinchingbrooke Hospital and Trauma Orthopaedics at Peterborough City Hospital. The post predominantly will be based at the Peterborough site but may also be required to support at Hinchingbrooke. As a large and thriving team we are looking for an enthusiastic, forward thinking and professional individual to join our friendly and supportive Therapy Service.  We are invested in enhancing your specialist clinical knowledge as well as supporting and developing your managerial and leadership skills. Successful candidate needs to be fully qualified Occupational Therapist with experience in an Acute Hospital environment and HCPC registered, ideally with previous experience working with the management of orthopaedic patients. Modern healthcare delivery requires a 7-day service and therefore weekend working is required Interviews for this role will be conducted in person to assess relevant skills effectively. ### Main duties of the job To enable OT to provide Therapy Skills within the inpatient service in the Specialist field To ensure safe, efficient and effective delivery of patient focussed care in line with identified evidence based practice, local and national standards To work collaboratively within Multidisciplinary and Multi-agency Teams To participate in delegated projects for service development with the team To act autonomously in the assessment and treatment of patients within the speciality who may have a complex presentation To demonstrate a flexible approach to working in support of the whole in patient team To undertake weekend working as required within service developments To be available to provide Clinical Supervision This role entails 90% Clinical Contact and 10% Operational Management as appropriate within team requirements To guide Band 5 and support staff in the management and delivery of therapeutic care plans ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Please see attached the job description and person specification for more details regarding this role. For further information, please contact Andrea Linnell, Orthopaedic Therapy Service Lead on \[email protected\] or Katie Heaps, Highly Specialist Occupational Therapist on \[email protected\]. ## Person Specification ### Other **Essential** - Able to participate in 7 day working - Manual Car Driver with clean licence, to enable home and access visits to patient residences as part of job role - Able to work across sites within job role **Desirable** - Value added contribution to the team – may take on additional roles e.g. Health & Safety representative ### Knowledge **Essential** - Clinical knowledge in clinical conditions associated with specialist area/sound level in theoretical knowledge of inpatient areas - Sound working knowledge of the multi-disciplinary team - Experience in use of IT system for data recording and Quality Audit **Desirable** - Experience of providing supervision to junior staff ### Experience **Essential** - Wide variety Band 5 core rotations (to include Orthopaedics) - Acute NHS Hospital experience **Desirable** - Experience of supervising staff - Clinical experience in Orthopaedics (within last 12 months) ### Qualifications **Essential** - Degree/Diploma in OT - HCPC Registered **Desirable** - RCOT Member ### Personal Qualities **Essential** - Ability to manage own time and pressure - Ability to demonstrate personal and clinical effectiveness to achieve optimum patient care - Strong belief in and evidence of CPD and Reflective Practice ### Key Skills/Abilities **Essential** - Able to work as a team member and independently - Good Clinical Reasoning skills - Ability to present information in logical concise manner **Desirable** - Involvement in service improvement projects - Previous experience of providing in-service training ## Documents - [staff benefits (pdf, 576.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2886) - [job description (pdf, 584.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10460979) - [living our values (pdf, 260.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1865) - [agile working matrix (pdf, 168.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10460981) - [person specification (pdf, 248.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10460980) - [we are team nwangliaft (pdf, 8.3mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2745) - [information for candidates (pdf, 5.7mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2788) ## 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.