Advanced Occupational Therapist

NHS; Watford; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Watford is offering an exciting opportunity for an Advanced Occupational Therapist. In this role, you will manage complex clinical cases and lead audit and quality improvement initiatives. You will be responsible for supervising junior staff while ensuring high standards of care. Candidates should have HCPC registration, over 4 years of NHS experience, and advanced clinical skills. Flexibility and a commitment to professional development are highly valued. This position promises rewarding challenges and growth.

Benefits

Access to Learning & Development opportunities

Flexible shifts

Wellbeing resources

Paid annual leave

Qualifications

• 4+ years acute NHS experience in frailty, ED, orthopaedics, or elderly care.
• Available for CPD evidence demonstrating advanced clinical skills.

Responsibilities

• Plan, coordinate, and evaluate the Occupational Therapy service.
• Lead audit, service evaluation, and research projects.
• Manage a complex clinical caseload.
• Supervise and mentor junior staff and students.
• Ensure legal, ethical, and Trust standards in practice.

Skills

Leadership in patient management

Specialist knowledge and clinical reasoning

Ability to assess complex patients

Quality improvement initiatives

Education

HCPC-registered OT with degree/equivalent

Job description

Wehave an exciting opportunity for an Advanced Occupational Therapist to joinWest Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. You will be based withinInpatient Therapies Frailty and the Emergency Department at Watford GeneralHospital, where you will plan, coordinate, and evaluate the OccupationalTherapy service on a day-to-day basis. You will manage a complex clinicalcaseload while participating in the seven-day inpatient therapy rota, ensuringcontinuity and quality of care across the service.

Main duties of the job

Asan Advanced Occupational Therapist, you will provide expert leadership inpatient management, applying specialist knowledge and clinical reasoning todeliver targeted therapeutic interventions. You will lead and contribute toaudit, service evaluation, and research projects, translating evidence intopractice, implementing improvements, and supporting the development of updatedprotocols and pathways. Your role will also involve supervising Band 6Occupational Therapists, junior staff, and students, promote professionaldevelopment, and enhance overall service performance.

About us

Here at NHS Professionals, we run England's largest NHS staff bank and are experts at putting people in places to care. Every year we help thousands of dedicated and highly skilled NHS workers enjoy better career opportunities, more flexible shifts, and a healthier work-life balance across our partnered Trusts.

Career Progression access to Learning & Development opportunities, so that you can take on new roles and challenges

Work-life Balance flexible shifts, committed shifts, wellbeing resources and build paid annual leave

Opportunity & Access over 50 partner NHS Trusts to give you the flexibility of choice to work how and where you want

Job responsibilities

• To be professionally accountable for your own practice, ensuring allactions meet legal, ethical, and Trust standards.
• To prioritise and organise your workload efficiently, balancing patientneeds, service demands, and operational responsibilities.
• To provide specialist guidance, advice, and training to colleagues,students, and support staff, enhancing their knowledge and practice within theclinical setting.
• To monitor and evaluate service resources, including equipment, patientaids, and therapeutic tools, ensuring their safe and effective use.
• To lead and participate in quality improvement initiatives, clinicalaudits, and outcome evaluations, contributing to service development andenhanced patient care.
• To manage communication effectively with patients, families, carers, andthe wider MDT, addressing complex issues, ensuring informed consent, andsupporting patient understanding and engagement.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• HCPC-registered OT with degree/equivalent
• 4+ years acute NHS experience (frailty, ED, orthopaedics, elderly)
• Advanced clinical skills with CPD evidence
• Able to assess complex patients and lead service improvements

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.