Senior Occupational Therapist in Stroke and Neurology (Stroke)
Bedford, England, United Kingdom Full-time Posted 6 hours ago
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NHS AfC: Band 6
Main area Occupational Therapy Grade NHS AfC: Band 6 Contract Fixed term: 12 months (maternity leave cover) Hours
Site Luton and Dunstable Hospital Town Luton Salary £39,959 - £48,117 pa, pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 14/09/2026 23:59 Interview date 29/09/2026
Job Overview
Due to maternity leave within the team, an exciting opportunity has arisen to work within the Stroke and Neuro Occupational Therapy Team.
Working as part of a specialist multi-disciplinary team, you will provide a high standard of occupational therapy input to patients with a variety of neurological and complex conditions.
Our service is committed to providing a 7 day service for our patients. Our team leads design the rotas in collaboration with staff to ensure that a fair and flexible approach in allocating shifts is applied.
You Will Have The Opportunity To Gain Experience In
You will be supported in this role by a strong multidisciplinary team and work in close collaboration with a friendly and innovative therapies department. Supervising junior members of the team is included within this role therefore prior experience is needed.
Internal Applicants: Please ensure you speak to your Line Manager before applying for this secondment opportunity and visit the Trust's Secondment Policy.
Main duties of the job
Clinical
Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides hospital services to a growing population of around 700,000 people living across Bedfordshire and the surrounding areas across two busy hospital sites in Bedford and Luton. Both hospital sites offer key services such as A&E, Obstetrics-led Maternity and Paediatrics. You will be joining a friendly, high performing Trust committed to ensuring the health and wellbeing of staff. As one of the largest NHS Trusts in our region you will have access to a programme of high quality training and development to help you grow your career. The Trust continues to be committed to delivering the best patient care using the best clinical knowledge and technology available.
Our values
We not only recruit based on qualifications and experience - we recruit individuals who demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our Trusts core values. We achieve this by using values based recruitment. We are dedicated to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone, we are committed to promoting equality and diversity and creating a culture that values differences.
Please note that vacancies may close prior to the advertised closing date when sufficient number of applications have been received. All new staff will be subject to a probationary period covering first 6 months in post. Travel between hospital sites may be required. Please review all documents attached to ensure you familiarize yourself with all requirements of the job.
Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
Qualifications
Essential criteria
Essential criteria
Essential criteria
Essential criteria
Essential criteria
You will be joining a friendly, high performing Trust committed to ensuring the health and wellbeing of staff. As one of the largest NHS Trusts in our region you will have access to a programme of high quality training and development to help you grow your career. Travel between hospital sites may be required. We have state-of-the art facilities placing us at the heart of cutting edge health care. The Trust continues to be committed to delivering the best patient care using the best clinical knowledge and technology available.
All new staff will be subject to a probationary period covering their first six months in post.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
Name Helen Owen Job title Therapy Service Manager Email address helen.owen@bedsft.nhs.uk Telephone number 01582497350
If you have problems applying, contact
Address Luton & Dunstable Hospital NHS Trust
Lewsey Road
Luton
Bedfordshire
LU4 0DZ
Telephone 01582 497325
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NHS AfC: Band 6
Main area Occupational Therapy Grade NHS AfC: Band 6 Contract Fixed term: 12 months (maternity leave cover) Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
Site Luton and Dunstable Hospital Town Luton Salary £39,959 - £48,117 pa, pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 14/09/2026 23:59 Interview date 29/09/2026
Job Overview
Due to maternity leave within the team, an exciting opportunity has arisen to work within the Stroke and Neuro Occupational Therapy Team.
Working as part of a specialist multi-disciplinary team, you will provide a high standard of occupational therapy input to patients with a variety of neurological and complex conditions.
Our service is committed to providing a 7 day service for our patients. Our team leads design the rotas in collaboration with staff to ensure that a fair and flexible approach in allocating shifts is applied.
You Will Have The Opportunity To Gain Experience In
- Hyper-acute Stroke Care
- Acute Stroke
- Neurological Outliers
You will be supported in this role by a strong multidisciplinary team and work in close collaboration with a friendly and innovative therapies department. Supervising junior members of the team is included within this role therefore prior experience is needed.
Internal Applicants: Please ensure you speak to your Line Manager before applying for this secondment opportunity and visit the Trust's Secondment Policy.
Main duties of the job
Clinical
- To be professionally and legally accountable for all aspects of own work, including the management of patients in your care.
- To undertake a comprehensive holistic assessment of patients including those with diverse or complex presentations/multi pathologies.
- To deliver appropriate individual evidence based occupational therapy treatment programme for all patients, including patients with complex presentations.
- To formulate accurate prognoses and recommend best course of intervention, developing comprehensive discharge plans.
- To assess patient understanding of treatment proposals, gain valid informed consent and have the capacity to work within a legal framework with patients who lack capacity to consent to treatment.
- To have a good working knowledge of the multidisciplinary team (MDT) and follow-up rehabilitation and treatment services. To work as an effective member of the MDT and make appropriate and timely referrals to MDT colleagues.
- To liaise effectively with MDT members to formulate holistic, integrated plans of treatment.
- To be responsible for maintaining accurate and comprehensive written patient assessment and treatment records and any other documentation required, in line with professional and Trust standards.
Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides hospital services to a growing population of around 700,000 people living across Bedfordshire and the surrounding areas across two busy hospital sites in Bedford and Luton. Both hospital sites offer key services such as A&E, Obstetrics-led Maternity and Paediatrics. You will be joining a friendly, high performing Trust committed to ensuring the health and wellbeing of staff. As one of the largest NHS Trusts in our region you will have access to a programme of high quality training and development to help you grow your career. The Trust continues to be committed to delivering the best patient care using the best clinical knowledge and technology available.
Our values
We not only recruit based on qualifications and experience - we recruit individuals who demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our Trusts core values. We achieve this by using values based recruitment. We are dedicated to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone, we are committed to promoting equality and diversity and creating a culture that values differences.
Please note that vacancies may close prior to the advertised closing date when sufficient number of applications have been received. All new staff will be subject to a probationary period covering first 6 months in post. Travel between hospital sites may be required. Please review all documents attached to ensure you familiarize yourself with all requirements of the job.
Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
- To maintain and develop current knowledge of evidenced-based practice in the areas of rehabilitation and neurology, developing specialist knowledge.
- To design, develop and undertake an evidence-based project as agreed with the specialist occupational therapist within the rehabilitation and neurology team and develop improvements to service delivery and clinical practice. Make recommendations for change to the specialist occupational therapist.
- To participate in the staff appraisal scheme as an appraisee and be responsible for complying with your agreed personal development programmes to meet knowledge requirements and competencies.
- To respect the individuality, values, culture and religious diversity of patients and contribute to the provision of the service sensitive to these needs
- To demonstrate ongoing personal development through participation in internal and external development opportunities and maintain a portfolio which reflects personal development.
- To appraise delegated section staff to ensure all section staff have a current PDP and appraisal objectives and facilitate the successful completion of these
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Dip COT or BSc (Hons) in OT
- HCPC registration
- Evidence of CPD maintained in a portfolio including attendances at recent post graduate courses/ in-service trainings relevant to the speciality
- Practice Educators Certificate
Essential criteria
- Evidence of broad based postgraduate experience to include experience in neurology, stroke or rehabilitation
- Evidence of experience working within an acute hospital environment
- Evidence of experience of supervision of staff or students including staff appraisal
- Work experience, student or therapy assistant supervision
- Teaching/training groups or individuals
- Involvement in service improvement via project management or clinical audit
- Involvement in specialist interests groups
Essential criteria
- Evidence of remaining up to date with professional practice and new research
Essential criteria
- Excellent verbal and non verbal communication skills
Essential criteria
- Competent IT skills
- Effective time management skills
- Ability to work to deadlines and under pressure
- Ability to organise, prioritise and delegate appropriately
You will be joining a friendly, high performing Trust committed to ensuring the health and wellbeing of staff. As one of the largest NHS Trusts in our region you will have access to a programme of high quality training and development to help you grow your career. Travel between hospital sites may be required. We have state-of-the art facilities placing us at the heart of cutting edge health care. The Trust continues to be committed to delivering the best patient care using the best clinical knowledge and technology available.
All new staff will be subject to a probationary period covering their first six months in post.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
- Job description (PDF, 208.4KB)
- Person specification OT (PDF, 136.4KB)
- Functional aspects (PDF, 152.6KB)
- L&D Hospital site map (PDF, 96.8KB)
- Disclosure & Barring Information and Recruitment of Ex-Offenders (PDF, 78.5KB)
- Staff Diversity Network (PDF, 140.3KB)
- Information for Disabled Applicants (PDF, 98.7KB)
- Staff Benefits (PNG, 1.6MB)
Further details / informal visits contact
Name Helen Owen Job title Therapy Service Manager Email address helen.owen@bedsft.nhs.uk Telephone number 01582497350
If you have problems applying, contact
Address Luton & Dunstable Hospital NHS Trust
Lewsey Road
Luton
Bedfordshire
LU4 0DZ
Telephone 01582 497325
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