Senior Community Occupational Therapist
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Part-time
- Hours / week
- 30
- Posted
- 08/09/2026
- Closes
- 21/09/2026
Sponsorship verdict
This contract type is not eligible for Skilled Worker sponsorship.
NHS Trusts cannot issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for part-time, bank, locum, zero-hours, job-share or short fixed-term (under 12 months) contracts under current Home Office rules. This applies even when the wider Trust holds a Skilled Worker licence.
Role summary
This is a permanent, part-time opportunity for a Senior Community Occupational Therapist to join the Post Infection Conditions Service (formerly Post Covid rehabilitation service) in Ealing and Hillingdon. The role involves providing highly skilled occupational therapy assessments, education, advice, and treatment to adult patients, focusing on vocational rehab, fatigue and brain fog management, and breathlessness management. The successful candidate will participate in MDT meetings, undertake triage, and contribute to audits and service development. Clinics will be based in Ealing and Hillingdon, with some telephone appointments and digital app use.
Key responsibilities
- Provide highly skilled occupational therapy assessment, education, advice, and treatment to adult patients referred to the Post Infection Conditions Service.
- Triage, screen, and assess referrals at the Single Point of Access, establishing priorities and assigning to appropriate pathways.
- Participate in weekly Multidisciplinary Team meetings for complex case reviews.
- Undertake patient management/treatment in various settings using methods like individual or group therapy, face-to-face, virtual, and app-based technology.
- Provide assessment and treatment for patients with post-covid and chronic respiratory conditions, focusing on fatigue, cognitive issues, breathlessness, and vocational rehab.
- Participate in and lead audits and service development.
- Maintain accurate documentation on electronic patient records, including discharge letters, clinic updates, and clinic notes.
Essential criteria
- Degree or Diploma in Occupational Therapy
- Evidence of relevant CPD
- Health Care Professionals Council Registration
- NHS Experience in acute and community in core areas of rotation eg medical, surgical, orthopaedic, neurology, care of elderly
- Experience of leading Audit
- Experience of supervision / teaching
- Understanding of clinical governance
- Clinical triage and managing long term complex conditions
- Sound assessment skills with advanced clinical reasoning and analytical ability especially with multipathology, fatigue management, vocational rehabilitation and brain fog
- Ability to critically appraise information/journal articles
- Keyboard skills and ability to access information via the internet
- Evidence of self-directed learning and reflective practice
- Ability to work independently and prioritise workload and pressures
- A sound theoretical knowledge of manual dexterity skills and therapeutic manual handling techniques
- Presentation skills and the ability to pass these skills and knowledge to others
- Knowledge of developments within NHS community and occupational therapy profession
- Good understanding of role of the Occupational Therapist in rehabilitation as well as the role of other professionals in MDT
- Knowledge & understanding of the role of Social Services and voluntary agencies
- Excellent time management and prioritisation
- Able to work flexibly and travel across sites to meet service needs
- Excellent communication skills both written and verbal
- Good problem solving abilities
- An understanding of providing services in a diverse patient population community
Desirable criteria
- Membership of special interest group
- MSc post graduate training
- Experience of leading a team
- Experience of complex vocational rehabilitation intervention/ report writing and fit note
- An understanding of NHS Referral pathways
- Excellent IT skills for audits, electronic notes, digital apps including Outlook, Word, Excel, databases etc
- Car User
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 7 at £46,148 – £52,809 a year, across England.
This advert: £55,524 – £62,652 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
Senior Community Occupational Therapist
The closing date is 21 September 2026
Job summary
An excellent opportunity has arisen to work with Community Post covid MDT team in Ealing and Hillingdon Borough and also support triage. The MDT Is supported by GP, Psychologist and Respiratory physiotherapist. This is a permanent post for 30 hrs a week. The Occupational Therapist will be supporting vocational rehab, fatigue - brain fog management, breathlessness management, MDT case reviews and undertaking triage, Clinics will be based in Ealing and Hillingdon along with some telephone appointments including use of digital app and triage.
The service is now renamed as Post Infection Conditions Service formerly known as Post Covid rehabilitation service. The service works closely with ICB and with other boroughs across North West London, supporting triage and participating in regular NWL borough based IST. Clinical support is available from Senior Occupational therapist and also from service lead. There is access to local and borough wide training and shadowing of medical clinics as part of CPD.
Main duties of the job
To provide a highly skilled occupational therapy assessment, education, advice and treatment to adult patients referred to post covid rehabilitation and support pulmonary rehabilitation and other community
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