Senior Practitioner Occupational Therapist – OT Assessment Team

  • Full Time
  • United Kingdom
  • 49,387 to 56,515 £ / Year

Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

Are you a compassionate and experienced Occupational Therapist passionate about enabling independence? Trafford Local Care Organisation is looking for a motivated and dynamic Band 7 Senior Practitioner Occupational Therapist to join our dedicated Community Equipment and Adaptations Service.

You will manage a complex caseload, using advanced clinical reasoning to provide highly specialist assessments and interventions for service users with diverse and complex needs. Your work will focus on the provision of specialist equipment and major adaptations to help people live safely and independently in their own homes and local community.

We are committed to providing high quality patient care and to educating and developing our staff. Our teams are friendly and offer a supportive environment in which to further develop your clinical and leadership skills. Supervision, appraisal and professional development opportunities are provided and CPD is actively supported and encouraged.

Supervision of junior staff, rehabilitation assistants and Occupational Therapy students is integral to the role.

The post is part time 0.6WTE between Monday – Friday and requires ability to travel across Trafford Borough to undertake home visits. Confirmed working pattern will be discussed and agreed with the successful candidate

Main duties of the job

Key responsibilities

Conduct comprehensive functional and risk assessments for service users with complex needs.

Prescribe and evaluate specialist equipment and environmental adaptations to maximise function and independence.

Act as an expert resource for the team, providing clinical guidance and supervision to junior OTs and support staff.

Take a lead role in complex cases, collaborating with multi-disciplinary teams and external partners, including Trafford Council.

Manage a defined caseload, prioritising work effectively to meet service priorities and deadlines.

Contribute to service development and audits to ensure a responsive and evidence-based service.

Deliver training and education to colleagues, service users, and carers on equipment use and safe moving and handling techniques

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Qualified to practice as an Occupational Therapist within the NHS.
  • Post graduate qualifications and experience to Master’s level.
  • Current registration with Health and Care Professions Council
  • Relevant post graduate training required to underpin clinical practice in the required area that the Senior Practitioner will be required to work

Desirable

  • Postgraduate Qualifications relevant to the clinical area of expertise.
  • Management /Leadership Qualification
  • Masters qualification

Experience

Essential

  • Significant experience at a senior level of clinical practice in the speciality
  • Evidence of managing a clinical of patients with complex clinical needs.
  • Able to demonstrate clinical practice at a senior level
  • Experience of managing / leading a team
  • Proven clinical leadership
  • Evidence of post registration development relevant to the post
  • Awareness of recent government policies and directives and the implications for community service delivery both health & social care
  • Knowledge of other non-statutory agencies working in the community
  • Knowledge of relevant governance systems and their influence on current practice

Desirable

  • Experience of undertaking Clinical Audit and Standard setting
  • Specialist training in relevant area

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: 10 August 2026

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