Specialist Frailty Occupational Therapist

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for you to join our Older Peoples Therapy Team as a Senior Occupational Therapist.

This is a fantastic opportunity where you will be supported to enhance your clinical practice and develop extended skills in frailty, whilst working alongside our highly regarded and innovative Older Person's Team in the hospital. This role will encompass the use of excellent clinical and leadership skills, encouraging you to work holistically developing yourself and colleagues. You will receive regular supervision and training and have responsibility for the supervision of others and contribute to the team training programme.

This post will also provide you with opportunities to contribute to service development within the team and wider services.

This role requires: HCPC Registration

Base Location: Poole Hospital (moving to Royal Bournemouth site in 2026)

Interview Date: TBC

Main duties of the job

You will have the opportunity to develop specialised skills in frailty in a fast paced environment. Your caseload will enable you to promote optimising recovery with early assessment of occupational performance in daily living activities. Assessment and education of optimal moving and handling with appropriate equipment provision and assessment of cognition will be intrinsic to this role. You will need to work in partnership with health and community providers in the county to enable Discharge to Assess and Home First Principles.

This role will provide you with the opportunity to support patients within the acute hospital and within their own homes to ensure they receive the right service in the best place for them.

For full duties of the post please see the job description.

To be successful in securing this post, you will have:

• 2 years experience working as an Occupational Therapist covering core rotations

• Experience working at a junior level within the NHS is essential

• Willing to participate in 7 day working on a rota basis

• Ability to drive, hold a clean drivers licence and have access to a car for work purposes

About us

Our values define who we are as #TeamUHD. They underpin everything we do now and in the future. They define how we treat our patients, visitors, and each other, our valued team mates and colleagues.

UHD are investing in services across the Trust, with many being transformed and developed following merger and the New Hospital Programme.

In some cases this means that a services may move site this year or next, either temporarily or long term. Recruiting Managers interviewing for this role will be happy to answer any specific questions that you have at interview.

Please note if the role or service is relocated as part of a planned move, employees will not be eligible for excess mileage reimbursement. Travel from the postholder's home to the new work base will be considered a normal commute. Any other changes not related to this relocation will be managed according to the relevant Trust or National terms and conditions.