Occupational Therapist (Rotational)- Therapy Service
East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS TrustStevenage, East of England
Overview
This is a NHS role (permanent) with East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust based in Stevenage. The advertised salary is £32,073 to £39,043. Applications close on 2 November 2026. GovJobs has indexed this vacancy from its official source — use the apply button to view the full advert and apply directly.
Job description
We are recruiting for an Occupational Therapist (Rotational) who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplar...
Within this role you will be required to assess and treat own caseload of patients and maintain own records as an autonomous practitioner with access to a senior member of staff for advice and support on a daily basis.
Communicating with relevant medical and nursing staff, social workers, and other health care professionals, patients, relatives, and carers who may be in direct contact with regards to patient care.
You will undertake comprehensive and where applicable, standardised assessments of patients looking at all Occupational Performance including self-maintenance, productivity and leisure for patients.
Undertaking assessment and treatment of patients with diverse and complex presentations/multi-pathologies with supervision.
As well as working in the hospital setting, you will also carry out accompanied home visits or unaccompanied access home visits, to assess the patient/client's functioning in their own environment and communicate with relatives and carers regarding further care and/or treatment at home.
At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general & specialist services we provide & our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible & innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.
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We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation; our staff & patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.
We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. Employees are entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns & we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made & considered formally, & will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.
Essential: - Degree/Diploma in Occupational Therapy; - HCPC registration; - Knowledge of current legislation at DOH and CCG level; - Knowledge and application of Professional Code of Conduct and Ethics
Essential: - Ability to maintain CPD through research, audit and training; - Knowledge of Occupational Therapy process; - Evidence of clinical reasoning; - Awareness of assessment tools, OCM's and their application to clinical area; - Knowledge of anatomy and physiology related to clinical area
Desirable: - Knowledge of research methodologies and audit cycles; - Knowledge of Clinical Governance; - Knowledge of NICE/NSF's and application to Occupational Therapy
Essential: - Ability to communicate complex and/or sensitive information requiring empathy and reassurance; - Knowledge of barriers to communication and strategies to overcome them; - Ability to communicate effectively with colleagues, other health professionals, patients and their relatives/carers; - Ability to present information accurately, written and oral in English; - Clinical problem solving ability in routine cases; - Ability to prioritise patient workload; - Physical skills, dexterity, coordination and sensory skills for assessment and manual treatment of patients; - Ability to carry out patient manual handling tasks; - Ability to work on the floor and in cramped spaces; - Ability to manage own time; - Ability to work with interruptions; - Ability to work under time constraints
Essential: - Understanding of, and commitment to, equality, diversity and inclusion; - Role model our Trust values every day; - Eligible to live and work in the UK; - Must be able to travel independently and reliably between sites within working hours to meet the operational requirements of the service
How this role compares
We hold 893 NHS vacancies in East of England that publish a salary, and their median advertised starting figure is £39,959. This role pays less than about 68% of them.
There are 13,012 NHS roles open across the UK on GovJobs right now, 1,295 of them in East of England.
You have 12 days left to apply. NHS adverts we hold typically run for around 46 days, so this is a shorter window than usual.
East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust has 30 other vacancies open on GovJobs, with a breakdown of what they pay and the kinds of roles they recruit for.
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