Senior Occupational Therapist | NELFT NHS Foundation Trust

NELFT NHS FOUNDATION TRUST; City Of London; On-site; GBP 4,000 - 6,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare organization in London seeks a Band 7 Occupational Therapist to join their Intensive Rehabilitation Service. This role involves clinical governance, team coordination, and patient assessments in a supportive environment. The organization values development and offers comprehensive induction and benefits. Ideal candidates are those with experience in community rehabilitation and strong leadership skills.

Benefits

High Cost Area Supplement - Outer London

Qualifications

• Experience in community-based rehabilitation.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a multidisciplinary team.
• Strong communication and leadership skills.

Responsibilities

• Triaging incoming referrals into the service.
• Completing clinical supervisions and joint sessions.
• Attending multidisciplinary team meetings.
• Coordinating caseload for efficiency.
• Completing audits to ensure service effectiveness.

Skills

Clinical governance

Team coordination

Patient assessment

Education

Degree in Occupational Therapy

Job description

Overview

Are you a passionate and experienced Band 7 Occupational Therapist seeking a fresh and rewarding challenge? Or perhaps you're a Band 6 OT ready to take the next step in your career? If so, we'd love to hear from you! We are looking for a skilled, motivated, and dynamic Occupational Therapist to join our forward-thinking Intensive Rehabilitation Service (IRS) - a large, multidisciplinary community team based in London. Our team includes Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Nurses, and Rehabilitation Assistants, all working collaboratively to deliver high-quality care. The IRS provides community-based physical rehabilitation as an alternative to hospital bed-based care, enabling patients to recover in the comfort of their own homes. We work closely with inpatient rehabilitation services and acute care partners to facilitate early discharges and support patients through an intensive rehabilitation programme tailored to their individual needs. This is a fantastic opportunity to make a meaningful impact in a supportive and innovative environment, while developing your clinical and leadership skills. As a band 7 member of the Intensive Rehabilitation Service, you will join with the Occupational and Physiotherapists tasks with maintaining a high level of clinical governance within IRS. You will do this by:

Responsibilities

• Triaging incoming referrals into the service on a rostered basis
• Completing clinical supervisions and joint sessions with junior members of the team
• Attending MDT meetings
• Co-ordinating caseload for efficiency
• Completing audits to ensure service effectiveness

Induction and probation

Probationary Period This post will be subject to a probationary period. Internal applicants are exempt from the probationary period (unless you are an internal applicant currently part way through a probationary period or currently a bank member of staff). Starting with NELFT NELFT place a great deal of importance on new starters being properly welcomed and inducted into the Trust. All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and will undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks which will include mandatory training, systems training and the allocation of equipment. As part of the process new starters will have the opportunity to also meet the executive team, senior managers and attend a number of drop in sessions focussing in engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office in Rainham, Essex.

Benefits

• High Cost Area Supplement - Outer London: 15% of the basic salary (minimum £4,714 to a maximum of £5,941 per annum, pro rata for part time).