Job summary
- Main area
- Therapies
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 290-MIC-1848
- Employer
- Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- St Mary's Hospital
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £46,419 - £55,046 pa inclusive
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 07/11/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Rotational Occupational Therapist
Band 6
Fulfil your potential in hospitals that make history:
Charing Cross, Hammersmith, St Mary’s, Queen Charlotte’s & Chelsea and Western Eye.
With five world-renowned hospitals, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is full of opportunity if you are looking to develop your healthcare career.
We are an NHS Trust of approximately 16,000 people, providing care for over a million and a half patients from north west London and beyond every year.
We have a rich heritage and an ambitious vision for the future of our patients and local communities.
With our partners, Imperial College London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, we form Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre, one of 6 academic health science centres in the UK, working to ensure the rapid translation of research for better patient care and excellence in education.
We are proud of our heritage in innovation and we are early adopters of new insights in technologies, techniques and treatments for improving health.
Job overview
Are you looking for a Band 6 role to enhance your clinical skills and leadership development in an acute setting?
We have a full time rotational band 6 opportunity in our acute, emergency and specialist medicine team at St Mary’s Hospital, Paddington. Wards covered in the nine months rotations are: Accident and Emergency, Acute Assessment wards, Hepatology, Gastroenterology, Infectious diseases and medicine for the elderly wards.
You will work in a large dynamic and friendly integrated therapy team, and will have an opportunity to work with an effective MDT on the wards to provide a safe and high quality care for our patients.
You will be required to work closely with band 7 OT and band 5 rotational OT to plan and co-ordinate discharges for patients on medicine and medicine for the elderly wards. The post holder will be liaising with community Home first teams, Adult Social Care teams and Complex discharge teams; supervising and supporting band 5 OT staff and educate OT students on placements.
The successful applicant will have a broad range of clinical experience at band 5 level. It includes carrying out home and access visits, assessing for wheelchairs and equipment provision, co-ordinating safe and effective discharges and completing referrals to community teams for follow-up.
It is important that the successful applicant is a team player with a positive outlook, enthusiasm and ability to learn and develop new skills.
Main duties of the job
- To be professionally and legally accountable for all aspects of own work, including management of patients in your care.
- To undertake a comprehensive assessment and re-assessment of patients including those with diverse or complex presentation for a designated caseload to establish clients' physical, cognitive, perceptual, psychological and social functioning.
- To communicate effectively, using a range of verbal and non-verbal skills, with patients and carers/family to motivate, engage to participate in therapy and to ensure an understanding of their condition.
- To deal sensitively and constructively with patients and carers/family, who have high levels of anxiety frustration or aggression caused by a variety of issues, such as pain, poor prognosis or limited mobility.
- To be flexible in the organisation of own caseload and to respond to predictable and unpredictable service needs throughout the day
- To undertake the measurement and evaluation of your own work and current practice through the use of projects, audit or outcome measures, whether individually or with the support of senior staff
- To critically appraise published research and use results to inform practice.
- To assist in the induction, daily supervision and delegation of tasks to band 5 occupational therapists, therapy support workers, students and administrative staff, as required.
Working for our organisation
At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.
Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You’ll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.
Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.
We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share. Please talk to us at interview. .
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required.
For both overviews, please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.
Person specification
Education/ Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Degree (or equivalent) in Occupational Therapy.
- State registration with the Health Care Professions Council.
- Evidence of CPD through maintenance of a portfolio.
- Able to demonstrate specialist learning from band 5 rotations, formal post-graduate level learning and informal CPD (both general and specific to clinical fields of speciality).
- Demonstrate learning of personal effectiveness and first line leadership from experience and from both formal and informal CPD activity.
Desirable criteria
- Membership of the Royal College of Occupational Therapists (RCOT)
- Membership of RCOT special interest groups relevant to speciality
- Clinical Educators Course
Experience
Essential criteria
- Recent experience in relevant occupational therapy specialities and clinical settings
- Experience of working as part of an occupational therapy and multidisciplinary team
- To have participated in service development projects.
- Experience of clinical education of staff, students or assistants.
- Experience of supervision of students/ therapy support workers, with development of basic supervision skills.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the use of evidence based practice in speciality
Desirable criteria
- Previous experience in the NHS or social care as a qualified occupational therapist
- Previous experience of prescribing wheelchairs and seating and other specialist equipment
- Experience with splinting
- Previous Band 6 experience in relevant post
- Involvement with Clinical Governance issues and an understanding of their relation to patient care
Skills/Knowledge/ Abilities
Essential criteria
- Able to apply a range and depth of knowledge to this specialist area.
- Able to use knowledge of a range of treatment approaches in the specialist area.
- Able to make sound clinical decisions based on knowledge/ experience/circumstances and utilise advanced clinical reasoning skills.
- Able to carry out therapeutic handling, requiring skilful and strenuous physical effort during the working day.
- Ability to remain up to date with professional practice and research and integrate this into daily patient management.
- Ability to organise, prioritise and delegate as appropriate and manage time effectively.
- Ability to seek guidance and assistance when required and to be aware of personal limitations
- Ability to cope with working in a stressful environment and with emotional or aggressive patients or carers.
- Competent IT skills.
- Good presentation skills.
- Remain updated with professional practice and new research
- To make sound judgments and reliable decisions in a variety of demanding situations.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Nicola Crossey
- Job title
- Clinical Lead for OT and PT
- Email address
- [email protected]
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