Bank Specialist Occupational Therapist (Rotational) Band 6 | Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust

Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust; City Of London; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in London is seeking a motivated Specialist Occupational Therapist to join their dynamic team. The role includes providing specialized therapy services, supervising staff, and supporting clinical governance. Candidates should have experience in therapy services and be committed to delivering high-quality patient care. This position offers an opportunity to develop clinical and leadership skills.

Qualifications

• Proven experience working in relevant areas of clinical therapy services.
• Ability to conduct functional assessments and develop treatment plans.
• Capable of supervising less experienced therapy staff.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialized Occupational Therapy services to assigned patients.
• Supervise professional work of less experienced staff and students.
• Assist in operational issues in the absence of the Therapy Team Leader.

Skills

Experience in clinical therapy services

Evidence-based practice

Supervisory skills

Job description

Overview

The Therapies team at the Royal Free Hospital is innovative, creative, and truly inter-disciplinary. This team always focuses on delivering high quality, patient centred care. Our team is friendly and supportive with a strong emphasis on supportive supervision, an active learning environment, staff welfare and teamwork using the “What matters to you?” framework.

VISA SPONSORSHIP DOES NOT APPLY TO THIS ROLE

This fantastic opportunity awaits dynamic, motivated Specialist Occupational Therapists looking to develop clinical, operational and leadership skills, as we are currently seeking experienced occupational therapists to join our therapy (rotational) team as Bank staff.

The successful candidate is required to be able to demonstrate the Trust values, the responsibilities of the job description and person specification. You should have proven experience of working in the relevant areas of clinical therapy services.

The Occupational Therapist has to attend both ad hoc and regular work within the Band 6 general rotations. The rotations happen on a 9 monthly basis across the following clinical teams:

• Vascular and Amputees
• Trauma and Orthopaedics
• Hand Therapy
• Health Services for Older People
• Rapid Response / A&E
• Acute Stroke and Neurology
• Complex Medicine

If you believe you meet the criteria of the person specification and would like to join the Royal Free bank at this time, we would be interested in receiving your applications.

Our responsibilities and job details

1. Provide specialised Occupational Therapy (OT) service to patients treated within RFH services in the given clinical area. This requires working under guidance and incorporating evidence-based practice (EBP) in the management of patient care.

2. Clinically supervise and guide the professional work of less experienced Therapy staff and students as appropriate, while complying with professional and departmental standards of practice.

3. Assist in operational issues in the absence of the Therapy Team Leader.

For further information please refer to the attached JD/PS

Our mission is to deliver world class care and expertise in our clinical services, underpinned by world class teaching and research and we will continue to measure our progress against our five governing objectives: excellent outcomes, excellent patient and staff experience, excellent value for taxpayers’ money, being safe and meeting our external duties, and building a strong organisation.

Everyone is welcome at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. We’re proud of our diversity and we continue to undertake new initiatives to advance equality for LGBT+, BME, gender equality, staff carers and people with disabilities and lived experiences to promote good relations and understanding between our staff.

Royal Free World Class Values:

The post holder will offer World Class Care to service users, staff, colleagues, clients and patients alike.

CLINICAL RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Completes an advanced functional assessment and treatment of patients preparing them for safe discharge to home or the community. The caseload consists of patients with physical and mental disabilities, and encompasses various specialist clinical areas of Occupational Therapy.

2. Gains valid, informed consent and has the capacity to work within a legal framework with patients who lack the capacity to consent to treatment.

3. Carry out complex standardised and non-standardised OT assessments of functional ability (including personal care), cognition, home situation and psychosocial issues, liaising with senior OT staff as required for highly complex patients.

RESPONSIBILITY FOR POLICY AND SERVICE DEVELOPMENT

1. Assists with service development by proposing improvements in own clinical area and recommending development of relevant procedures.

2. Identifies areas of unmet patient needs and service gaps and/or areas requiring service development in consultation with the senior therapy clinicians.

3. Supports Departmental and Trust strategies regarding Clinical Governance issues.

RESPONSIBILITY FOR LEADING AND MANAGING

1. Assists in induction of new recruits. This may include recommending the development and updating of induction programmes where necessary.

2. Responsible for providing regular supervision and individual performance reviews for less experienced staff with guidance from senior staff.

3. Assists in the training of occupational therapy students, taking responsibility for practice placement education and written assessments.

For further information please refer to the attached JD/PS

This advert closes on Wednesday 17 Sep 2025