Band 6 Specialist Occupational Therapist - Orthopaedics

Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust; Romford; On-site; GBP 46,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

Barking Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust invites applications for a Band 6 Specialist Occupational Therapist in Orthopaedics. The post covers trauma, community and elective patients across our sites, with orthopaedic experience essential and a priority for high standards of care and collaboration.

Excellent communication and involvement in discharge services such as HomeFirst or Discharge to Assess will be advantageous.

Job description

Band 6 Specialist Occupational Therapist - Orthopaedics

Company: Barking Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust

Salary: £45,953 - £54,254 per annum inclusive

Hours: Full-time

Location: Romford, RM7 0AG

Job type: Permanent

Posting date: 21 Oct 2026

Closing date: 20 Nov 2026

Summary

A Vacancy at Barking Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust.

We are recruiting to a static B6 Occupational Therapy post within Trauma & Orthopaedics. This post will include working with trauma, community and elective patients across our different sites, therefore orthopaedic experience is essential.

The BHRUT focus is on early intervention to support high quality patient care, therefore excellent communication skills and experience of discharge services such as HomeFirst or Discharge to Assess is an advantage.

Supervisory skills are required to support students and junior staff. In return, you will receive excellent peer support and service development opportunities working alongside the Band 7 and Clinical Specialist OTs.

You will have opportunity to be involved in the ongoing development of the hip fracture and high-volume elective orthopaedic pathways, as well as the orthopaedic weekend services.

Through a holistic approach, to provide a high standard of Occupational Therapy service, facilitating and maximising patient potential within the service boundaries.

To fulfil a teaching and supervisory role with peers, junior staff and students on placement.

We're an organisation that is getting better and better and our improvements are driven by a determination to deliver care we're proud of and our patients are happy with.

They are benefitting from a new electronic patient record (we were the last acute trust in London to introduce one) and our maternity services have been rated good by the Care Quality Commission.

We operate from two main sites - KGH in Goodmayes and Queen's Hospital in Romford. We have two busy emergency departments with more than 346,000 people visiting them last year. We're campaigning to secure the £35m we need to transform the A&E at Queen's and get rid of corridor care.

We're proud of our regional Neurosciences Centre, Radiotherapy Centre and Hyper Acute Stroke Unit. We're also part of the North East London Cancer Alliance.

We run a Women's Health Hub in Ilford; an Ageing Well Centre in Hornchurch; and Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) at Barking Community Hospital and at St George's Health and Wellbeing Hub. These CDCs are open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week.

The majority of our 8,400 staff - who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. Many can work flexibly and more than 400 of them are on our Ofsted accredited apprenticeship programmes. We're proud to be a London Living Wage employer.

For further information on this role, please see the attached detailed Job Description and Person Specification.

The person specification listed below is not the full specification requirements for the role. Please ensure you review the full specification on the job description prior to submitting your application.

Applicants are advised to read all the information on the advert and the supporting information before completing and submitting an application. As you complete your application please ensure you clearly demonstrate how you meet the criteria in the person specification for this post by adequately completing the supporting information section of the application form.

All new staff appointed at the Trust are subject to a probationary period.

This advert closes on Sunday 1 Nov 2026