Job overview

Do you have a passion for Occupational Therapy (OT)? Are you looking for a great trust in which to start your career, or perhaps you are looking to build upon your existing Band 5 experience? 

If so, we would love to offer you an opportunity to work as a Band 5 OT in our highly respected and truly unique mixed rotation hosted by Homerton Healthcare NHS Trust and our mental health partners at East London Foundation Trust. 

Our rotations include:

• The Elderly Care Unit, patients love our reminiscence groups
• Surgical Rehabilitation Team, our award winning early discharge service
• Acute Medical Team, work on our Intensive Care Unit 
• Adult Community Rehabilitation Team, where you can develop splinting skills 
• Community Neurological Rehabilitation, where you can experience Vocational Rehabilitation 
• Stroke Unit, regularly scores highest in London for delivering intensive Stroke rehabilitation 
• Our Rapid Response Team in London’s best performing A&E 
• Regional Neurological Rehabilitation Unit, will develop your cognitive assessment and rehabilitation skills 
• Paediatrics assessing and treating children at home and at school
• Mental Health Care of Older People, working alongside a specialist dementia care team 
• Learning Difficulties,  assessing and treating people with complex behaviour needs 
• Acute Inpatient Psychiatry, develop your mental health assessment skills within recovery focus groups and 1:1 sessions 
• Community Mental Health Services, CQC rated outstanding 

Main duties of the job

Take responsibility for managing a client caseload, prioritising as appropriate. 

Undertake holistic client-centred occupational therapy assessments using appropriate occupational therapy models of practice and assessment tools working as an autonomous practitioner.

Plan occupational therapy interventions and rehabilitation programmes using a goal oriented approach.

Monitor and evaluate progress and adapt therapy interventions as appropriate

We are proud of the opportunities we offer our Band 5 Occupational Therapists (OT).  Our Band 5 training program focuses on making sure you have practical OT skills and develop those early on in the rotation to improve your confidence. We are also proud of our preceptorship program, our attitude towards supervision and support from our senior OTs. We believe we are also skilled at developing senior Band 5’s prior to moving onto Band 6 posts. There are also numerous opportunities to be involved in quality improvement initiatives, case study research and developing students.

Working for our organisation

Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a high performing and flourishing organisation serving the population of Hackney, East London, The City and beyond.

We are extremely proud of the fact that Homerton Hospital has recently attained the highest possible rating of "Outstanding" from the Care Quality Commission (CQC).

Our integrated Trust provides comprehensive hospital and community health services for its local population and a range of specialist services for a wider group of patients. In addition, the Trust manages services out of St Leonard's Hospital and the Mary Seacole Nursing Home.

Homerton aims to ensure equality and value diversity, and we are committed to inclusion for all of our staff.  This is reflected in our policies, procedures and People Plan.  All of our staff are expected to embody our Trust values at all times.

We are also committed, through our Fair Recruitment Standards, to ensuring all applicants are treated fairly.

Homerton has a proud tradition of supporting and developing its staff, including its well-regarded and valued nursing community, and all staff are able to take advantage of a great range of benefits.

Homerton is proud to have been included on the HSJ & Nursing Times Best Places to Work list.