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Specialist Occupational Therapist
Are you an enthusiastic Occupational Therapist ready to take the next step in your neurorehabilitation career?
Specialist Occupational Therapist
Are you an enthusiastic Occupational Therapist ready to take the next step in your neurorehabilitation career?
Looking for variety, flexibility, and real opportunities to grow?
Join our supportive and dynamic Community Stroke and Neurological Rehab Service in
Bedford — where every day brings a new challenge and every team member is truly valued.
We are offering an exciting opportunity for a Band 6 Specialist Occupational Therapist to join
our well-established and welcoming multidisciplinary team, delivering early supported
discharge and community-based rehabilitation to adults with stroke and neurological
conditions across Bedfordshire. You will benefit from flexible working patterns, regular
supervision,CPD time, and a wide range of internal and external training opportunities to
enhance your clinical and leadership skills.
Our caseload is varied and rewarding, offering you experience in both short-term intensive
rehabilitation and longer-term support, with the chance to develop specialist skills in
functional and cognitive assessment, equipment provision, and patient education.
If you're looking for a role where you’ll be encouraged to develop, supported by experienced
clinicians, and able to make a real difference in patients’ lives while maintaining work-life
balance — we’d love to hear from you.
(Should we receive a high number of applications we reserve the right to close this vacancy at any point after 20-07-2025)
As a Band 6 Occupational Therapist within the Community Neurotherapy Service, the post holder is responsible for managing a complex caseload of neurological and stroke patients, delivering specialist, evidence-based assessments and interventions in a community setting.
They will act as a case manager, coordinating multidisciplinary care and supporting patients' rehabilitation and independence through personalised therapy plans.
The role involves effective communication with patients, carers, and professionals across health and social care, as well as providing supervision to junior staff and students.
The therapist will contribute to service development, lead clinical projects, maintain accurate documentation, and work flexibly across different settings, including weekends and bank holidays as part of a rota.
Rated ‘Outstanding’ by the Care Quality Commission, we are proud to provide high quality innovative services across most of the east of England that enable people to receive care closer to home and live healthier lives.
There’s one reason why our services are outstanding – and that’s our amazing staff who, for the seventh year running, rated us incredibly highly in the national staff survey.
If you share our passion for innovative and high-quality care delivery, then please submit your application and join us on our exciting journey as a leading-edge specialist community provider. All are welcome to apply and our promise to you is a culture which prioritises staff engagement and development.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Saravan Thiru Job title: Service Lead Email address: saravan.thiru@nhs.net Telephone number: 07769725514
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