Specialist Occupational Therapist

Job overview

Are you an enthusiastic and compassionate Occupational Therapist looking to develop your career in a world-renowned centre of excellence?

At The Royal Marsden, we are proud to offer a supportive, innovative, and professionally enriching environment for Occupational Therapists at all stages of their careers. Whether you're newly qualified or looking to take the next step, this is the place to grow, thrive, and make a real impact.

Why Join Us?

• Structured Preceptorship ProgrammeOur preceptorship pathway is designed to support Band 5 and 6 Occupational Therapists, helping you build confidence, consolidate clinical skills, and develop professionally from day one.
• Dedicated Practice EducatorWe’re proud to have a forward-thinking Practice Educator who not only supports student placements but also pioneers innovative models of training. This approach engages service leads as well as frontline staff—lightening the load on clinicians while improving the quality of our training delivery.
• Generous CPD SupportWe invest heavily in your development. You’ll benefit from:

• Access to multiple CPD funding streams including charitable funds
• 10 days of protected study leave per year
• Opportunities to attend external courses, conferences, and specialist training
• Strong and Visible OT LeadershipOur robust Occupational Therapy leadership team is committed to supporting your career progression, wellbeing, and ongoing development. Your voice is heard, and your growth is championed.

Main duties of the job

The Band 6 Occupational Therapist is an active member of a team that provides a high quality, evidence based occupational therapy service for the patient with cancer.

As a skilled practitioner, the post holder is a source of knowledge and expertise for patients, relatives and colleagues of all disciplines.

With the support of the Band 7 Occupational Therapist, they will organise occupational therapy activities within a defined clinical area and will also liaise closely with all members of the multi-professional rehabilitation team in the provision of a specialist input to a variety of education programmes

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For more information please refer to the job description and personal specification.

Undertake all aspects of clinical duties as an autonomous practitioner.

• Working autonomously in ward and outpatient settings to provide complex clinical assessment of the biomechanical, sensory, psychological, cognitive, perceptual and interpersonal deficits affecting the functioning of individuals with cancer, their families and carers through the use of advanced clinical reasoning.
• Developing and implementing individual specialised therapeutic rehabilitation programmes specific to patient’s needs based on activity analysis using a client-centred, problem solving approach.
• Developing and implementing treatment and educational groups for people with cancer and their carers such as Health & Well Being groups.
• Assessing and prescribing the complex wheelchair and specialist seating needs for example paralysis, dystonia, major surgery, extreme fatigue, pressure relief of patients with cancer.
• Assessing, designing and fabricating static or dynamic splints specific to the individual patient’s needs to enable maintenance and improvement in upper limb functioning.
• Liaising with multi professional team within the hospital and community, to achieve optimum rehabilitation outcomes and planned coordinated packages of support across health and social care.
• Taking a key role in organising and facilitating discharge planning case conferences where functional independent is paramount.

If you’re looking for a rewarding career where your expertise is valued and your development is actively supported, The Royal Marsden is the place for you.

Come and join us—be part of something exceptional.

You will be joining a supportive and friendly team of qualified Occupational Therapists working in an acute setting to support needs of patients undergoing cancer treatment across all tumour groups. There is excellent internal and external CPD opportunities, generous support for study leave, parking onsite, and comprehensive staff benefits via Vivup.  We encourage you to contact us to discuss the role if you are interested in applying.

Please contact Lauren Blackburn on [email protected] or 0208 661 3090.