Job Overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for you to join our Older Peoples Therapy Team as a Senior Occupational Therapist.
This is a fantastic opportunity where you will be supported to enhance your clinical practice and develop extended skills in frailty, whilst working alongside our highly regarded and innovative Older Person's Team in the hospital. This role will encompass the use of excellent clinical and leadership skills, encouraging you to work holistically developing yourself and colleagues. You will receive regular supervision and training and have responsibility for the supervision of others and contribute to the team training programme.
This post will also provide you with opportunities to contribute to service development within the team and wider services.
This role requires: HCPC Registration
Base Location: Royal Bournemouth site
Interview Date: 4th March 2026
Main duties of the job
You will have the opportunity to develop specialised skills in frailty in a fast paced environment. Your caseload will enable you to promote optimising recovery with early assessment of occupational performance in daily living activities. Assessment and education of optimal moving and handling with appropriate equipment provision and assessment of cognition will be intrinsic to this role. You will need to work in partnership with health and community providers in the county to enable Discharge to Assess and Home First Principles.
This role will provide you with the opportunity to support patients within the acute hospital and within their own homes to ensure they receive the right service in the best place for them.
For full duties of the post please see the job descri ption.
To be successful in securing this post, you will have:
* 2 years experience working as a n Occupational Therapist covering core rotations
* Experience working at a junior level within the NHS is essential
* Willing to participate in 7 day working on a rota basis
* Ability to drive, hold a clean drivers licence and have access to a car for work purposes
Working for our organisation
UHD are investing, developing and transforming Trust services in line with the New Hospital Programme. As part of this, some services may move site this year or next, either temporarily or permanently. Recruiting Managers will be happy to answer any service-specific questions at interview.
If a role or service relocates as part of a planned move, excess mileage will not be reimbursed. Travel from home to the new work base will be classed as a normal commute. Any other changes will be managed under Trust or national terms and conditions.
UHD has active networks including Women's, BAME, Pride, EU, Pro Ability, and Armed Forces. We support Disability Confident and Armed Forces Covenant interview schemes.
AI tools may be used, but applications must honestly reflect your own skills and experience. Integrity is key to our recruitment process.
We can offer sponsorship for this post
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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
To understand the role in more detail please read the full job description and person specification documents which are attached to this advert.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
* BSc (Hons) Occupational Therapy Degree
* HCPC Registration
Desirable criteria
* Member of Royal College of Occupational Therapists
Experience
Essential criteria
* 2+ years experience within the NHS
* Band 5 Occupational Therapy experience covering the following core areas: Older adults Neurology Hand/Orthopaedics Acute
* NHS Experience in an acute physical setting
Desirable criteria
* Involvement in audit
Technical Skills
Essential criteria
* Ability to teach patients, relatives, carers & staff.
* How to critique research articles
* Demonstrate excellent verbal and nonverbal communication with an ability to establish a good rapport with a range of people.
* To be able to delegate appropriately.
* Ability to teach & supervise Junior staff & assistants .
* Good time management.
* IT Skills within word processing.
* Ability to prioritise clinical workload.
Other Requirements
Essential criteria
* Ability to drive, hold a clean drivers licence
* Ability to speak English as necessary to undertake the role