Overview
Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Occupational Therapist
The closing date is 03 February 2026
We are looking to welcome Band 5 applications from new graduates or Occupational Therapists looking to return to practice, to join our friendly, innovative and dynamic Therapy Team.
You will be working collaboratively with our Multidisciplinary Colleagues across the fast-paced environments of ED, through to acute medical, orthopaedic wards. We offer varied and specialist clinical environments for you to learn, grow and develop as a strong Occupational Therapist.
We offer the opportunity to gain clinical development in a variety of areas:
* Accident and emergency, urgent care wards
* Acute medicine
* Respiratory wards
We offer an established preceptorship programme for new graduates, a Band 5 in-service training programme and weekly speciality teaching sessions and mentorship to support your development.
Main duties of the job
* To perform Occupational Therapy assessment of patients with diverse presentations
* To provide a clinical diagnosis and develop and deliver an individualised treatment programme.
* To plan and prioritise own Patient caseload, working with direct support of a senior member of staff. Supervision takes the form of regular formal training and clinical reasoning sessions and peer review.
* To undertake all aspects of clinical duties as an autonomous practitioner.
* Assist in audit and/or research projects to further own and team's clinical practice within each rotation.
* To provide high quality, evidence-based care across the seven-day service as the service requires.
* To be able to travel between venues for access visits.
About us
Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest employers in the area and we are on an exciting journey. Our mission is to provide safe, compassionate, and clinically excellent patient care, by being an outstanding employer for our people. We have entered into a Group Model with neighbouring Northampton General Hospital and have become University Hospitals of Northamptonshire. Our Excellence Values:
Compassion
Respect
Integrity
Courageous
Accountable
Job responsibilities
All band 5 posts offer the opportunity to acquire specialist skills across the clinical settings, these posts are ideal in not just developing your clinical skills but developing key leadership roles in the service. The posts are full-time; however staff work across 7 days.
Return to Practice:
Occupational Therapists looking to return to practice - we have an exciting initiative to be able to provide a return to practice Band 5 Occupational Therapy post for Occupational Therapists who have had relevant previous experience in an acute setting and are ready to begin their return to practice. We will support you with experience working in different clinical settings and competencies to enable you to successfully complete your return to practice and re-registration with HCPC. You will initially be paid as a pre-registration Band 4 for 6 months until your return to practice process is completed and you have successfully gained your HCPC registration, when you will be re-graded as a Band 5 within the team.
For more information about this role and person specification, please refer to attached Job Description
Person Specification
Education, training and qualifications
* Professional Occupational Therapy Qualification
* HPC registered
* Member of BAOT
Knowledge and Experience
* Broad range of student placements including both physical and mental health settings
* Experience of working within a multi-disciplinary team
* Evidence of learning within student placements
* O.T. models of practice and frames of reference
* Aware of national strategies
* Detailed knowledge of national strategies and impact on service provision
Key competencies/Personal Qualities and Attributes
* Recognition of own future continuing Professional development needs
* Good communicator - customer service problem solving skills
* Able to continue to learn and develop in a clinical setting
* Able to undertake moderate to intense physical effort throughout the day
* Able to keep accurate and legible notes to professional standards
* Understanding of legal responsibilities of the profession
* Ability to cope in stressful situations including emotional/aggressive patients/carers
* Team player
* Good understanding of confidentiality
* Flexible/adaptable in order to gain good rotation base
* Ability to motivate self and others
* Ability to present a professional image
* Respectful of: rights of disabled people
* Respectful of: views and work of others
* Commitment to: equal opportunities; Commitment to: social model of disability
* Is guided by standard operating procedures, good practice, established precedents and understands what results or standards are to be achieved. Someone is generally available for reference and work may be checked on a sample/random basis
* Responsible for data entry, text processing or storage of data, utilising paper or computer based data entry systems
* To provide high quality, evidence-based care across the seven-day service as the service requires
* Evidence of post graduate training if not 1st post
* Basic computer skills
Disclosure and 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.
Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
£31,049 to £37,796 a year per annum pro rata
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