Job summary
- Main area
- Therapies - DOM
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent: Weekend working within contracted hours
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (work over weekends as part of 7-Day Therapy service)
- Job ref
- 392-RNOH-1220
- Employer
- Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital
- Town
- Stanmore
- Salary
- £34,521 - £41,956 per annum inclusive of HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 25/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Occupational Therapist (Rotational)
Band 5
Please note in order to progress your application, your data will be processed by our 3rd party recruitment providers – North London Partners Shared Service, who conduct recruitment activities on behalf of Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust.
The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust is the largest orthopaedic hospital in the UK and a global leader in our field. We provide a dynamic working environment where we support frontline staff to implement improvements so that we can realise our vision of being a world leading neuro musculoskeletal hospital providing the best patient care and staff experience in the NHS, delivering world leading research, and offering a strong foundation of education, training and career progression. Our dedicated staff come from diverse backgrounds, and our patients benefit from the wide range of experience they bring to the Trust. The RNOH brings unrivalled expertise together in one place allowing us to deliver some of the world’s most complex and innovative care to our patients
- Rated Good by the CQC
- Two sites, one in central London and one in Stanmore - which has recently opened The Stanmore Building, a new, state-of-the-art inpatient facility
- Our Research and Innovation Centre works closely with our main academic partner, University College London
- Recognised as a centre of excellence, leading on national initiatives, such as the Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) Programme
- Further major redevelopment underway across the Stanmore site – improving and modernising our facilities to maintain our position as the UK’s leading centre for orthopaedic medicine
- In the NHS staff survey, over 90% of our staff were satisfied with the quality of care they are able to give to patients - the best result of any NHS Trust in the country
- Our staff also indicated that they had the best experience of appraisals as compared to all other NHS Trusts.
This is a great time to join us and play a critical role in the next stage of RNOH’s journey to achieving an outstanding CQC rating.
Our aim is to remain a world-leading orthopaedic hospital with the best patient care and staff experience in the NHS. To do this, we have four core values that underpin everything that we do. We use our values to help ensure that we are always focused on the things that our staff and patients believe are most important:
- Patients first, always
- Excellence, in all we do
- Trust, honesty and respect, for each other
- Equality, for all
Our annual staff survey results have been improving year on year, with our staff telling us that their experience of working at the Trust is getting better and better. They also indicate that our staff feel very loyal to the RNOH and committed to its role in providing the very best care to our complex patient group. We hope that we can welcome you to our growing team soon.
Job overview
We are looking for a Band 5 Occupational Therapist to join our established Band 5 Occupational Therapy rotation. This is an exciting opportunity at Band 5 level to gain experience in the area specialist orthopaedics and working with patient with neuro-musculoskeletal conditions.
The post holder will be rotating through following clinical teams:
- Adult Orthopaedics
- Pain Management and Rehabilitation
- Sarcoma and Orthopaedic Oncology
- Paediatric Orthopaedics
- London Spinal Cord Injuries Centre
- Upper Limb and Peripheral Nerve Injury
- Amputee acute and Rehab.
Main duties of the job
Within all the clinical teams you will be the responsible for carrying a caseload of patients which will include patients with complex physical and psychological needs. This may include patients with ‘Special Needs’ requiring specialist seating assessments. Your caseload will include patients ranging in age from children, young adulthood/adults to elderly.
The post will benefit from a multi professional structure of clinical specialists, peer support and supervision and will have excellent opportunities to develop your professional portfolio.
The post holder will be based at Stanmore and will be required to work on a weekend rota as part of Therapy 7-day service.
Working for our organisation
RNOH Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust (RNOH) is the largest orthopaedic hospital in the UK and a global leader in our field. We provide a dynamic working environment where we support frontline staff to implement improvements so that we can realise our vision of being a world leading neuro-musculoskeletal hospital providing the best patient care and staff experience in the NHS, delivering world leading research, and offering a strong foundation of education, training and career progression. Our dedicated staff come from diverse backgrounds, and our patients benefit from the wide range of experience they bring to the trust. RNOH brings unrivalled expertise together in one place allowing us to deliver some of the world’s most complex and innovative care to our patients. RNOH is rated good by the CQC and covers two sites, one in central London and one in Stanmore - which has recently opened The Stanmore Building, a new, state-of-the-art inpatient facility. For more information, please access the following link: https://www.rnoh.nhs.uk/
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The post holder will be managed by the Clinical Specialist Manager/s and accountable to the Director of Therapy Services. Clinical supervision will be provided by the Band 7 or Band 6 Occupational Therapist in the team and the post holder will be expected to supervise other members of staff and students as allocated.
The post holder will provide cover for administrative and clinical tasks in the temporary absence of another member of the team, as appropriate to own level of experience.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- DipCOT/ Degree in Occupational Therapy.
- Member of COT or recognised equivalent.
- Registered with HPC.
Experience
Essential criteria
- 6 months experience as Therapy/Rehabilitation Technician or Equivalent relevant experience in any other clinical setting as OT student
- Broad knowledge of current best practice in OT and medical conditions associated with the clinical area.
- Understanding of team dynamics and MDT working.
- Working knowledge of common adaptive equipment.
Desirable criteria
- 6 months NHS experience as Band 5 OT.
- Interest in and further study in clinical area
- Knowledge of neurological and biomechanical treatment approaches for complex disability.
- Awareness of some specialist equipment relevant to the post.
Skills
Essential criteria
- Good Written and Verbal communication with colleagues and patients and other agencies.
- Able to communicate with a variety of people, occasionally in emotional distress
- Sound clinical reasoning and reflective skills.
- Good organisation of self and time.
- Ability to reflect and appraise own performance.
- Ability to self-motivate and initiate activity.
- Computer Literacy . – Use of Microsoft office . Email and other web based systems
Desirable criteria
- RCOT Specialist Section/ other Special Interest Group membership.
- Clinical supervisor’s course.
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
- Supriya Nerlekar
- Job title
- Clinical Specialist Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0208 909 5533
- Additional information
0208 909 5533
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