Job summary
- Main area
- Stroke and Neurological
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Fixed term: 6 months (Maternity Leave Cover)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (The service operates Monday to Friday, with participation in a weekend rota. Your specific working pattern will be agreed upon following successful appointment)
- Job ref
- 824-HERTS-7833358-B
- Employer
- Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Holywell Neurological Rehabilitation Unit
- Town
- Watford
- Salary
- £41,957 - £50,387 Per Annum, inclusive of HCAS pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 29/04/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Neuro Occupational Therapist
Band 6
Welcome to Central London Community Healthcare (CLCH)
At CLCH, we proudly serve as a beacon of compassionate community healthcare across 14 vibrant London boroughs — Barnet, Brent, Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham, Harrow, Hounslow, Kensington and Chelsea, Merton, Richmond, Wandsworth, Westminster, Hillingdon, Sutton, and Kingston — as well as Hertfordshire. We bring care closer to home, embracing the rich diversity of these communities with dedication and heart.
Recognised as a Good provider by the Care Quality Commission and celebrated among the top NHS employers, we are united by a shared passion: empowering our community health professionals to deliver care that truly makes a difference.
We are deeply committed to fostering an environment where every member of our team feels respected, valued, and inspired—a place where fairness, kindness, and inclusion blossom. Our culture is rooted in the principles of the NHS People Plan, Our NHS People Promise, and our own strategic Equality values and objectives, guiding us to create a truly supportive and inclusive workplace.
Together, we build a caring community where the warmth we show one another shines through in every life we touch.
Job overview
CLCH Hertfordshire Adult Community Services - CLCH NHS Trust provides a range of Community Services, and the Hertfordshire Division is recruiting!
To join a wonderful team of therapy and nursing professionals in a 20 bed inpatient rehabilitation unit on a part time, fixed term contract as a maternity leave cover. To work with the team in providing specialist evidence based Occupational Therapy to patients with Stroke / Neurological conditions.
To engage in continuous professional development and share learning with in the team to engage in a cultural of development, innovation and improvement.
Main duties of the job
To work as an active member of the Holywell inpatient therapy team which specialises in stroke and neurological conditions.
To support the OT team and wider multi-disciplinary team in developing the service to ensure integrated, evidence-based practice.
To provide specialist assessment and treatment of stroke and neurological conditions.
To provide advice, guidance and information to health and social care professionals, patients, carers and relatives.
To be responsible for a caseload of complex physical / cognitive and emotional needs and facilitate positive rehabilitation outcomes and timely co-ordinated discharge plans.
To support across Hertfordshire bedded units as staffing requires.
You will be responsible for supervising members of staff and students.
To will provide expert advice, guidance and information to health and social care professionals, carers, relatives and other non-professionals.
To participate in a 7 day service covering weekends on a rota basis
Working for our organisation
We are proud to be one of the largest community healthcare providers in the country, with more than 4,500 colleagues caring for over four million people across London and Hertfordshire. Every day, our teams bring their skill, compassion, and determination to the people who depend on us.
What inspires us is at the heart of who we are: when we work together, we can help people move forward in ways that truly matter. Our teams support children as they take their first steps in life, and they stand beside adults as they rebuild strength, confidence, and independence. From newborn health visiting to community nursing, stroke rehabilitation, and palliative care, we are there for people through some of life’s most important moments.
Joining Central London Community Healthcare means becoming part of a community that lifts each other up. It means working in an organisation that values compassion, welcomes new ideas, and believes in the potential of every colleague. Your development matters here. Your wellbeing matters. Your voice helps shape the future of the care we provide.
We offer a competitive employment package because the work you do matters. At Central London Community Healthcare, you will join an inclusive organisation that invests in its people, supports development, and helps you thrive while delivering high-quality care.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Applicants are expected to present clear and relevant evidence of the competencies and responsibilities detailed in the attached Job Description and Person Specification, together with a demonstrated commitment to the Trust’s values of Accountability, Inclusion, Compassion, and Empowerment.
Person specification
Edudcational/Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Current AHP with UK HCPC registration
- Experience of working with neurological patients in delivery of rehabilitation packages or in a rehab setting at Band 5 level.
- Documented evidence of professional development and reflective practice in relevant aspects of neurological rehabilitation e.g. attendance at in-service training sessions, reflective practice
Desirable criteria
- Attendance at relevant post-graduate neurological training courses e.g. Bobath, spasticity management , splinting, cognition and perceptual assessment , fatigue management
- Experience of working in a neurological rehabilitation setting at band 6 level.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Ability and experience of carrying out a comprehensive neurological occupational therapy assessment to formulate a comprehensive neurological treatment plan and goals.
- Knowledge and experience of using a wide range of therapeutic occupational therapy interventions for the treatment of patients with neurological conditions.
- Knowledge and experience of using a range of recognised outcome measures and goal setting skills as appropriate to the rehabilitation of patients with a range of neurological conditions.
- Good understanding of current NHS issues, professional standards, CPD, clinical governance.
- Able to work as an autonomous practitioner
- Able to work with individuals and groups
- Clinical problem solving ability
- Knowledge of Occupational Therapy models of practice
- Understand professional ethics and their application in practice
- React in a flexible way to changing demands in service
Desirable criteria
- Experience of supervising and appraising other staff e.g. rehabilitation assistants
- Experience of supervising student occupational therapists.
- Experience in delivering training to other members of the MDT and care workers.
- Understanding of clinical governance and the implications for the service
- Delegated management responsibilities within service area
- Innovative ideas
- Involvement in service development
Skills and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Ability to communicate effectively with colleagues, other health professionals, patients and their relatives/carers
- Ability to present information accurately, written and oral, in English
- Work in a team and understand team dynamics
- Word processing, e-mail, internet skills •
- Keep legible and accurate patient records in English.
- Clinical problem solving ability in complex cases.
- Ability to prioritise patient workload
Key Attributes
Essential criteria
- Hold a full, valid, UK driving licence and have access to a car to use for business purposes (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010)
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
- Hannah Martin
- Job title
- Occupational Therapy Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07721108654
- Additional information
Please note that I work Monday - Thursday
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