Specialist Occupational Therapist, Frailty
Band 6 Occupational Therapist: Frailty Wards (Care of the Elderly and Medicine). Closing date: 15 April 2026.
We are seeking an enthusiastic, motivated Band 6 Occupational Therapist to join Wards at Coventry Hospital, supporting our frailty patient cohort. This role offers an opportunity to help patients regain function, maximise independence, and achieve a safe discharge home.
About the Role
You will work as part of a multidisciplinary team, delivering high‑quality assessments and interventions for adults with a range of rehabilitation needs, many of whom present with frailty, deconditioning after acute illness, and complex discharge planning requirements.
Key Responsibilities
* Completing comprehensive occupational therapy assessments.
* Developing person‑centred rehabilitation plans.
* Contributing to service development and maintaining high clinical standards.
* Supporting and developing colleagues.
The first two weeks will be supernumerary to allow you to meet the team, familiarise yourself with service processes, and identify training needs.
Main duties of the job
* Manage a caseload of patients with varying diagnoses or complex needs, using evidence‑based practice and client‑centred principles.
* Participate in planning, development and evaluation of clinical practice and service development within the area.
* Ensure development of staff and students through supervision, training and appraisal.
* Support learning and development of students and staff.
* Develop enhanced clinical skills and knowledge in an area of interest linked with patient cohorts (e.g., cognition, specific clinical condition, acute rehabilitation).
* Participate in 7‑day working patterns as required.
Job responsibilities
* Be professionally responsible for all aspects of own work, managing clinical risk within own caseload.
* Carry a clinical caseload of highly complex patients, providing advanced therapeutic assessment and detailed written treatment plans with patient‑centred goals.
* Work autonomously and as part of the multidisciplinary team, influencing decisions about patient care programmes.
* Carry out treatment using a broad variety of modalities and clinical reasoning, selecting appropriate techniques and recording outcomes.
* Use highly developed manual treatment skills requiring coordination, sensation & dexterity.
* Work in accordance with RCOT & HCPC rules of professional conduct and local care pathways, policies and standards.
* Establish and maintain effective communication networks with patients, carers, MDT, other workers and agencies across health, social care and private sector.
* Contribute to Trust clinical governance arrangements and quality agenda.
* Take the lead for information management to ensure high‑quality written and electronic records in accordance with standards.
For further details of the role please see the attached job description.
Person Specification
Qualifications, experience, knowledge and skills are covered in supporting documents.
Commitment to Trust Values and Behaviours
See supporting documents.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check: This post requires a DBS check under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975.
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