Band 7 Highly Specialist Occupational Therapist

Barking Havering and Redbridge Univ Hospitals NHS Trust; Romford; On-site; GBP 46,000 - 63,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

CPD opportunities

Job summary

Barking Havering and Redbridge Univ Hospitals NHS Trust is seeking a Band 7 Occupational Therapist to join the Acute Elderly Unit at Queens Hospital, Romford. The post focuses on complex assessments, discharge planning, and autonomous practice within a fast-paced frailty service.

You will lead and educate junior staff, work within an integrated therapy team, and contribute to service development while maintaining high-quality patient care.

Qualifications

• Degree in Occupational Therapy and UK professional registration.
• Experience in acute frailty and discharge planning.
• Proven ability to lead, supervise and educate junior staff.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist Occupational Therapy services to acute elderly patients.
• Lead and coordinate OT service delivery within the team.
• Teach, supervise and appraise Band 6s, 5s, students and assistants.
• Deputise for senior colleagues as required in management and clinical duties.
• Contribute to policy development and evidence-based practice within the service.

Skills

Geriatric assessment

Dementia care

Delirium management

Falls prevention

Leadership & mentoring

Education

Degree/Diploma in Occupational Therapy

Job description

We are currently recruiting for Consultant Geriatricians.

Band 7 Highly Specialist Occupational Therapist

Band 7

Main area BHRUT Therapies Grade Band 7 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week Job ref 162-7788-CCS-B

Site Queens Hospital Town Romford Salary £45,953 - £62,652 Per Annum Inclusive Salary period Yearly Closing 27/09/2026 23:59

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The Acute Elderly Unit Team in BHRUT are actively recruiting for a motivated and dynamic Band 7 Occupational Therapist to join our team at Queens Hospital in Romford, Essex.

The team covers 3 Acute Elderly wards and are part of the Frailty service provision. Working in a fast-paced environment, you will have the opportunity to expand your clinical knowledge and be expected to supervise and educate more junior staff. The successful candidate will be required to demonstrate strong leadership skills and be confident to work as an autonomous practitioner with a focus on complex assessment and discharge planning with robust decision-making essential for efficient patient flow. You will be familiar the assessment of patients with diverse presentations and complex physical, cognitive and psychological health conditions within elderly and medical specialities to develop and deliver treatment and discharge plans. The team is an integrated service with Occupational therapy, with staff working to develop an enhanced therapy role. You will be supported in your role directly by the Clinical Specialist OT. Peer support will be provided by the existing Band 7 Physio's and OTs and plenty of CPD opportunities are available.

Main duties of the job

To provide specialist standard of Occupational Therapy service to patients within the acute elderly units with a special focus on the assessment of the acute elderly patients, facilitating and maximising patient potential within the service boundaries, using a holistic approach.

To give highly specialist guidance, advice and education to other members of the Multidisciplinary Team (MDT) on matters relating to your specialist area.

Provide leadership for your team (in conjunction with the Clinical Leads and the Clinical Specialists) in planning, coordinating, delivering, and evaluating the Occupational Therapy service provided to patients within your area.

To provide a lead role in teaching, supervising and appraising peers, Band 6s, Band 5s, Student Occupational Therapists and Generic Therapy Assistants.

To deputise in the absence of senior colleagues as required both within management and clinical areas.

To contribute to the running and development of the service through the promotion, adaptation and development of policies, procedures and guidelines using evidence-based practise.

Undertake supervision, mentoring and performance development plans to promote clinical and professional effectiveness of self and others. This includes performance management, management of disciplinary issues in liaison with Therapy Manager.

Working for our organisation

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 Queens 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 Queens 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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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.

Person specification

Education/ Qualifications

• Degree/Diploma in Occupational Therapy.

Skills/ Abilities

• Highly skilled in the assessment and treatment of patients presenting with common pathologies including dementia, delirium and falls
• Evidence of developing service provision

Experience/ Knowledge

• Proven clinical experience in the relevant field of Acute Frailty during Band 6 rotations in an acute hospital setting.
• Training of junior staff and MDT in relevant conditions, treatment and management.
• Experience of working in early discharge teams such as Discharge To Assess/Home First

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Flexible working
We welcome applications from candidates seeking flexible working or job sharing where service needs allow.

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Inclusion
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You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Name Laura Kalanzi Job title Clinical Specialist Occupational Therapist Email address [e-mail] Telephone number 01708435000 Additional information Ext - 6840/3157

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