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 40,000 - 50,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in the City of London is seeking experienced Specialist Occupational Therapists to join their bank staff. In this role, you will conduct advanced assessments, lead service development, and provide supervision to junior staff. The ideal candidate should hold a degree in Occupational Therapy and have proven experience in clinical services. This position offers a supportive environment and the chance to impact patient care positively.

Qualifications

• Proven experience working in clinical therapy services.
• Ability to handle complex patient assessments.
• Skills in proposing service improvements.

Responsibilities

• Conduct advanced functional assessments and treatment.
• Assist with service development and clinical governance.
• Provide supervision and training for junior staff.

Skills

Experience in clinical therapy services

Ability to work within legal frameworks

Advanced functional assessment

Excellent communication skills

Education

Degree in Occupational Therapy

Job description

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.

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

The successful candidate is required 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.

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. Carrying 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.

Policy and Service Development

1. Assists with service development by proposing improvements in your clinical area and recommending the development of relevant procedures.
2. Identifies areas of unmet patient needs and service gaps and/or areas requiring service development in consultation with senior therapy clinicians.
3. Supports departmental and Trust strategies regarding clinical governance issues.

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.

Mission and Values

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:
Royal Free will offer World Class Care to service users, staff, colleagues, clients and patients alike.

This advert closes on Sunday 23 Nov 2025