Rotational Occupational Therapist: Sponsorship Available

Barts Health NHS Trust

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen on the band 6 Occupational Therapy general rotation at Barts Health NHS Trust. This is a rotational post, aimed at consolidating and enhancing knowledge and experience across acute rotations at The Royal London Hospital, Major Trauma Centre and St Bartholomew’s Hospital, Tertiary Centre for heart and cancer care. The role provides high quality patient assessment, treatment and intervention as part the specialist therapy team on each rotation.

We are looking for a highly skilled, innovative and passionate individual to join our Band 6 Occupational Therapy team. The Royal London Hospital & St Bartholomew’s Hospital Band 6 Occupational Therapy rotation involves 9-month rotations across a range of diverse areas.

The ideal candidate is a highly motivated, autonomous and dynamic individual who is committed to further improving their clinical assessment and activity analysis skills and providing high quality, timely and effective services to patients and the organisation.

The successful candidate will work alongside occupational therapy colleagues and work as part of an integrated multidisciplinary team to develop your clinical, leadership, teaching and service development skills whilst working within a supportive and motivated team. The teams are committed to ongoing learning and development and as a member of the team the successful candidate will be part of this as well as take a leading role.

Main duties of the job

To provide evidence-based, functional assessments, treatment and discharge planning to patients within the clinical speciality.

To provide advanced cognitive, motor, sensory and perceptual assessments and treatments for patients with complex needs.

To provide specialist advice and information to patients, carers and other professionals.

To perform manual handling tasks such as the hoisting and/or transfer of patients, fitting of ADL equipment, and basic IT skills.

To participate in evidence-based audit and service development projects relevant to the area of speciality will be carried out in conjunction with the Senior Therapists (OT/PT) in order to ensure high standards of care & service development are maintained and improved upon.

To provide supervision and support learning and development of other staff including band 5 occupational therapists, support workers and students.

To participate in the Band 6 rotational scheme working across the Barts Health NHS Trust sites which will require working in a range of ward settings and departments

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Diploma or Degree in Occupational therapy
  • Valid HCPC registration
  • Evidence of relevant CPD

Desirable

  • Member of the Royal College of Occupational Therapy

Experience

Essential

  • Experience across core rotations
  • Minimum NHS experience

Desirable

  • Supervision skills
  • Practice educators training

Skills

Essential

  • Ability to risk assess and carry out patient assessment, treatment sessions and discharge
  • Ability to assess and treat cognitive and affective impairment, its impact on function
  • Ability to structure holistic assessment and the OT process within a framework that provides clear clinical reasoning.

Desirable

  • Specialist clinical skills/interest in terms of sitting and seating, postural management, upper limb assessment and treatment, energy conservation/fatigue management, therapeutic manual handling, cognitive assessment and treatment and capacity assessment

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Closing Date: 18 October 2026

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