Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

Occupational Therapist - Rotational

The closing date is 10 August 2025

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Job summary

Are you

  • Passionate about top class patient care with a belief that every day matters.
  • Qualifying this year, just starting your career or looking for new learning opportunities
  • Ready for a new challenge
  • Thinking about return to practice
  • Driven to promote the value of Occupational Therapy and therefore influence the narrative of OT for future generations
  • Committed to making a brighter future within the NHS

Do you want

  • To learn in a fast-paced hospital setting
  • Grow your leadership skills as well as your clinical skills
  • Work with a diverse team with wide knowledge and experience
  • Develop your knowledge and skill with support from peers, specialists, clinical educators, and experienced Occupational Therapy leaders.

We can offer:

  • An acute and out patient rotation providing you with diverse experiences including Medicine, Orthopaedics, Surgery, Elderly Rehabilitation, A&E, Stroke, Hand Therapy, Community inpatient rehabilitation and Community based therapy (site dependent)
  • Excellent learning opportunities with a high level of support and supervision and appraisal from senior colleagues
  • Peer support from a large group of colleagues on the rotation
  • A multi-professional preceptorship programme

Main duties of the job

To provide excellent, high-quality person centred clinical care that advocates for patients, strive to provide a service fit for today and the future, develop personal leadership to support clinical growth. Every rotation (6 months) brings duties specific for that speciality and team.

Our teams across all sites have a friendly, supportive atmosphere and a real team ethic. We know how to look after our staff - making sure they achieve the ideal work-life balance. As a Trust we offer a multi-professional preceptorship programme. In addition, we offer excellent training opportunities supported by a practice development lead and clinical flow lead.

About us

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.

Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.

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Details

Date posted

25 July 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 5

Salary

£32,602 to £39,686 a year per annum incl HCAS

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

151-NM114

Job locations

Wexham Park Hospital

slough

SL2 4HL


Job description

Job responsibilities

If you are inspired to know more about this opportunity and our team, please see the job description attached, which outlines the main duties of this post.

Job description

Job responsibilities

If you are inspired to know more about this opportunity and our team, please see the job description attached, which outlines the main duties of this post.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Degree or Diploma in OT
  • HCPC registration

Competencies

Essential

  • Good organisational skills
  • Ability to work single-handedly with individuals and groups
  • Effective written and oral communication skills
  • Group work skills
  • Ability to manage own workload and determine priorities, relevant to acute physical hospital setting
  • Be able to work under pressure

Desirable

  • Presentation skills
  • Training and facilitation skills
  • Use of electronic pt record

Professional / Specialist / Functional Experience

Essential

  • Knowledge of evidence based practice
  • Understanding of professional ethics and their application in practice
  • Knowledge of UK health legislation in current practice and clinical governance
  • Knowledge of risk assessment
  • Experience of work as an OT or placement as an OT student within the acute hospital setting
  • Documented evidence of CPD
  • Worked (could be as a student) in some of the following areas:- Acute Medicine, Orthopaedics, Surgery, Elderly Care, A&E, Neurology, community rehab

Desirable

  • Experience of research and audit

Special Requirements

Essential

  • Willingness to rotate clinical area of work
  • Willingness to work flexibly across a 7 day service
  • Must be able to travel between sites
Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Degree or Diploma in OT
  • HCPC registration

Competencies

Essential

  • Good organisational skills
  • Ability to work single-handedly with individuals and groups
  • Effective written and oral communication skills
  • Group work skills
  • Ability to manage own workload and determine priorities, relevant to acute physical hospital setting
  • Be able to work under pressure

Desirable

  • Presentation skills
  • Training and facilitation skills
  • Use of electronic pt record

Professional / Specialist / Functional Experience

Essential

  • Knowledge of evidence based practice
  • Understanding of professional ethics and their application in practice
  • Knowledge of UK health legislation in current practice and clinical governance
  • Knowledge of risk assessment
  • Experience of work as an OT or placement as an OT student within the acute hospital setting
  • Documented evidence of CPD
  • Worked (could be as a student) in some of the following areas:- Acute Medicine, Orthopaedics, Surgery, Elderly Care, A&E, Neurology, community rehab

Desirable

  • Experience of research and audit

Special Requirements

Essential

  • Willingness to rotate clinical area of work
  • Willingness to work flexibly across a 7 day service
  • Must be able to travel between sites

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Additional information

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Wexham Park Hospital

slough

SL2 4HL


Employer's website

https://www.fhft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Wexham Park Hospital

slough

SL2 4HL


Employer's website

https://www.fhft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Principal Occupational Therapist

Caroline Reynolds

caroline.reynolds@nhs.net

03006153144

Details

Date posted

25 July 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 5

Salary

£32,602 to £39,686 a year per annum incl HCAS

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

151-NM114

Job locations

Wexham Park Hospital

slough

SL2 4HL


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