Job Overview
Band 6 senior Occupational Therapist to join our Integrated Therapy Team, in the Band 6 rotation.
This role covers maternity leave until 11th December 2026. Internal applicants currently employed by ESNEFT will be offered on a secondment basis only.
Responsibilities
* Complete specialist assessment, rehabilitation and discharge planning.
* Plan and organise a designated caseload of complex patients within the designated service and own professional activities under the management of the Team Leader.
* Work with patients and carers to identify and meet OT goals, using standardised assessment tools to assess skills deficits, occupational needs and achieve functional fitness for timely discharge.
* In collaboration with patients, plan and implement a programme of interventions using treatment techniques to meet their needs for timely discharge.
* Monitor, evaluate and modify treatment interventions to measure progress and ensure effectiveness, involving patients, carers and MDT as appropriate.
* Ensure therapy goals are integral to the multidisciplinary care plan for safe and timely discharge.
* Apply an enhanced understanding of the effects and impact of illness, frailty and disability on patients’ abilities and provide advice and education regarding lifestyle changes and adaptations to their physical and social environment.
Qualifications and Skills
Confidence and professionalism in managing a diverse, complex caseload within a dynamic environment. Demonstrated supervisory and leadership skills to support junior staff and students. Able to work a shift pattern across seven days and extended days until 6 pm where required.
Benefits
Training and development opportunities, flexible working options, generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata), access to NHS discounts, and staff health and wellbeing programme.
Advert closes on Thursday 21 May 2026.
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