Specialist Occupational Therapist

Job overview

Do you relish a challenge? Are you proud to be ‘green’? If you are passionate and enjoy thinking outside the box, this job is for you.

As a thriving Acute Medicine team, we are looking for a 18.75 hours per week Senior OT to join our service at Hinchingbrooke Hospital to cover maternity leave for 6 months from August 2025 until end February 2026. With a variety of specialties including Medicine for Older People, Oncology, Renal, Gastroenterology, every day is different.

We are invested in enhancing your specialist clinical knowledge as well as developing your managerial and leadership skills. This is supported by:

• Peer & senior support
• Supervision
• Protected non-clinical time
• CPD opportunities
• Student education
• Appraisals
• Specialty workstreams; MSCC, Parkinson’s disease, falls and frailty, neurology and dementia/delirium
• Cross site and regional professional meetings

For further information, contact Julie Flint, Team Leader on [email protected].

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

-  To support delivery of 7-day working

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see attached the person specification and job description for more details regarding this role.