Job Summary
Important Sponsorship Information for this post: We are currently unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post.
Spread your wings, Bexley Community Neurorehabilitation Team is looking to appoint a motivated and committed Band 6 Specialist Occupational Therapist, with a keen interest and proven experience of working with adults with neurological conditions. Ideally you will be an existing B6 OT wanting to further develop your specialist skills in neurology and community working.
You will be part of a busy community multidisciplinary Neuro‑Rehabilitation Team in the London Borough of Bexley, working 37.5 hours per week (Mon‑Fri), with rostered weekend working every 5‑6 weeks. Working from home and flexible working is supported by the Trust.
You need to be a confident, autonomous practitioner with high level communication skills, a flexible problem solving approach, good clinical reasoning skills, and be efficient in your time and people management.
The team provides a service in clients' own homes, care homes and the local community and provides a great opportunity for joint working, joint goal setting and regular in‑service training. In exchange for your professional skills, passion and commitment to patient centred care, we offer you a supportive, friendly team where you will be listened to, feel valued and be developed as a Band 6.
About Us
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes. We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.
Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:
* We’re Kind
* We’re Fair
* We Listen
* We Care
Job Details
Date posted: 25 February 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for Change
Band: Band 6
Salary: £44,485 to £52,521 a year pa inc
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full‑time, Flexible working
Reference number: 277‑7819206‑CPH
Job location: Queen Mary’s Hospital, Frognal Avenue, Sidcup, DA14 6LT
Key Responsibilities
* Provide specialist occupational therapy input to clients as part of the specialist Community Neurorehabilitation service.
* Work with specialist nurses and other health and social care practitioners to manage those with neurology long‑term conditions.
* Supervise Band 5 occupational therapists, therapy assistants and occupational therapy students.
* Be responsible and accountable for assessment, diagnosis and treatment for a wide variety of conditions including complex cases, in the community as an autonomous and lone practitioner to clients.
* Demonstrate specialist knowledge levels and skills in neurology conditions and interventions.
* Demonstrate theoretical knowledge of multiple pathologies and impairments in the assessment of community clients, often in the presence of incomplete or conflicting referral information to form accurate analyses and diagnoses.
* Assess for and provide equipment to enhance independence in daily living skills for service users.
* Monitor, review and continually re‑assess clients complex care plans and objectives against outcome measures in order to facilitate modification of packages of care/targets as appropriate to enable achievement of their goals.
Education
* Degree / Masters in Occupational Therapy
* HCPC registered
* Evidence of Continuous Professional Development
Experience
* Experience of working with clients in a community setting
* Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and treatment within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan
* Evidence of MDT working
* Experience of undertaking risk assessment and risk management
* Experience organising and delivering therapy in group settings
* Experience of using relevant outcome measures
* Experience of supervising assistants and students
* Specialist experience in therapeutic work with people with neurological conditions
Skills
* Excellent communication skills – written and verbal
* Knowledge of specific patient conditions acquired through training and experience
* Knowledge and experience of a range of treatment approaches
* Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non‑professional groups
* To perform clinical skills in assessment and/or diagnosis and/or treatment
* Reflective abilities
* Specialist skills in therapeutic work with people with neurological conditions
Other Essential
* Drivers licence
* Car owner / access to vehicle for work
Disclosure & 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. 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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.
Employer Details
Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Queen Mary’s Hospital, Frognal Avenue, Sidcup, DA14 6LT
Website: http://oxleas.nhs.uk/
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