# Ward Occupational Therapist > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Dorset Healthcare University NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/ward-occupational-therapist/91842fe0-263e-4949-bf2b-7300673b87d4 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/ward-occupational-therapist/91842fe0-263e-4949-bf2b-7300673b87d4.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Dorset Healthcare University NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** Poole - **Region:** South West - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Occupational Therapist - **Grade:** Band 6 - **Salary:** £31,967 - £38,493 p.a - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** 30 hours per week (Full time, 30 hours a week) - **Closing date:** 2026-07-23T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-07-09T13:42:32.978Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Dorset/Parkstone/Dorset_HealthCare_University_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Ward_Occupational_therapist/Ward_Occupational_therapist-v8124538 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8124538?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.dorsethealthcare.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview Alderney Ward Therapist Are you an enthusiastic Occupational Therapist looking to broaden your practice within our dedicated specialist team? Join our ward team. As a ward Occupational Therapist based at Alderney hospital you will bring your clinical and inspiring leadership expertise to the patient journey, you will be assessing and leading on the discharge process to get people back into the community and supporting flow from the acute hospitals. You will be joining a supportive, multidisciplinary team providing highly specialist advice and programmes of care to other professionals, to ensure high quality person – centred care and interventions. There is an expectation to work across sights as needed. With your effective communication, professionalism and innovation, care delivery to our patients will be of the highest standard. This is a  part time position with a minimum of30 hours. For more information or informal discussions please contact Alun Lewis, Team Lead:\[email protected\] Please note visa sponsorship for this role is unfortunately not available. Ensure you hold valid right to work in the UK and will not require sponsorship if successful. ### Main duties of the job Providing OT based assessment and discharge planning for a range of physical presentations such as stroke and neurology, orthopaedics, frailty, falls, cognitive impairment and many more in a ward setting. Knowledge and experience in moving and handling, experience of using a range of equipment, experience of carrying out cognitive assessments, skills to holistically assess and formulate a patient centred rehab program, knowledge and experience of working with the older person, particularly with frailty. Ability to recognise and manage a deteriorating patient, problem solving and crisis management of an acute situation, skills in carrying out a basic physical assessment including basic observations and recognising when it is appropriate to escalate. Carry out rehab and assessment on the rehab ward, complete home visits/dc visits as needed, support the therapy assistants, students and the ward as a whole. Demonstrable skills in communication, organisation, caseload management, autonomous working and supervision and mentorship of both trained and junior colleagues. Problem solving and innovation to inform service development and improve quality standards. A large part of this role is overseeing and planning complex discharges, working closely with the MDT and ensuring patient flow through the ward from the acute hospitals. Employment in this post requires an Enhanced/Standard Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, which the Trust will cover the cost of. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities For the main duties and responsibilities for this role please read the attached job description and person specification.  When completing your application please ensure your supporting statement reflects the criteria set out in these documents by showing how your experience and skills apply to this post. We understand that AI can be a useful tool when completing your application. However, we are seeing an increasing over-reliance of AI tools, which can negatively affect your application as it reduces a candidate’s individuality, and makes it difficult for us to gain a clear and authentic understanding of your experience, skills, and in turn your suitability for the role. All submissions must be truthful and if you do use AI, it should only be used to enhance your application and not create your supporting statement in its entirety. Your supporting statement should be in your own words and must accurately reflect your personal experience and achievements.  Where we have concerns that AI has been used to generate content that misrepresents your experience and suitability for the role, we may withdraw your application. As part of our vision to have a skilled, diverse and caring workforce, Dorset HealthCare offers support for people getting into work. We offer an employability service to support individuals with application writing, interview skills and other employment support. If you would like or know of anyone who would value this support, please do contact \[email protected\] ## Person Specification ### BUSINESS TRAVEL **Essential** - Subject to the provisions of the Equality Act, able to travel using own vehicle on Trust business. ### FINANCE/RESOURCES **Essential** - Able to effectively manage available resources in the pursuit of quality service provision ensuring a safe environment ### ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS **Essential** - Demonstrable skills in written and spoken English to a standard which enables the post holder to carry out the full range of duties and responsibilities of the role effectively. ### JOB SPECIFIC EXPERIENCE **Essential** - Experience at Practitioner Band 5 level - Experience of specialist working - Recent previous experience within a comparable role - Experience of managing change - Demonstrable knowledge of assessment and therapeutic interventions in area of specialism - Experience of developing specialist programmes of care for an individual or groups of patients/clients and of providing highly specialist advice - Able to demonstrate specialist clinical reasoning skills to assimilate information in order to make a clinical judgement regarding diagnosis and intervention. - Ability to prioritise and organise workload effectively ### PERSONAL QUALITIES/ATTRIBUTES **Essential** - Evidence of demonstrating the Trust’s values and behaviours. - Able to overcome barriers to understanding where there are physical or mental disabilities. - Able to analyse and assess situations and to interpret potentially conflicting situations and determine appropriate action, where there is a range of options and judgement is required. - Experience of planning and organising complex activities, e.g. organise own time and that of junior staff and learners, planning off duty rotas and undertaking discharge planning involving co-ordination with other agencies. - Demonstrable ability to analyse situations and provide a resolution - Demonstrable leadership qualities and the ability to perform as a role model - Willingness to advance own clinical knowledge, skill and competence based on current evidence ### KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND TRAINING **Essential** - Registered practitioner to degree/diploma level supplemented by post registration diploma level specialist training and/or short courses or demonstrable extensive experience in the relevant specialty - Membership of the relevant Professional Body - Learning and Assessing in Practice Qualification or equivalent practice assessors training - Evidence of recent professional development in an up to date portfolio **Desirable** - Knowledge and understanding of Trust Strategy relevant to role ### INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY/RESOURCES **Essential** - Able to analyse data and produce reports using Microsoft Excel and Word - Experience of using electronic patient / service user record systems ### MANAGERIAL/SUPERVISORY EXPERIENCE **Essential** - Experience of providing clinical supervision and mentoring to junior staff - Experience of devising and delivering training ## Documents - [jd (pdf, 272.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10443823) - [ps (pdf, 236.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10443824) - [dbs information (pdf, 22.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2340) - [staff benefits leaflet (pdf, 316.1kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=695) - [pay scales from 1 april 2025 (pdf, 44.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1941) - [applications recruitment flowchart (pdf, 434.1kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=866) ## 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.