Occupational Therapist
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 09/09/2026
- Closes
- 25/09/2026
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Role summary
This Occupational Therapist role at St Peters Hospital involves working with patients who have complex neurological conditions, often complicated by challenging behaviours. The service focuses on interdisciplinary assessment and intervention to improve quality of life using least restrictive approaches. You will be part of a diverse multidisciplinary team, contributing to the hospital's therapeutic support program. The role requires providing clinical occupational therapy interventions, conducting assessments of functional ability, and implementing interventions individually or in groups.
Essential criteria
- Diploma or Degree in Occupational Therapy
- Registered to practice by HCPC.
- Relevant post registration training
- Students Supervisors Course
- Significant post registration experience of working with specified patient group i.e. older person neurological, dementia, Huntingtons, mental health (mood, personalist and psychotic disorders)
- Diploma or Degree in Occupational Therapy
- Registered to practice by HCPC.
- Relevant post registration training
- Students Supervisors Course
- Significant post registration experience of working with specified patient group i.e. older person neurological, dementia, Huntingtons, mental health (mood, personalist and psychotic disorders)
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 6 at £37,338 – £44,962 a year, across England.
This advert: £40,559 – £48,841 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Iris Care Group
Occupational Therapist
The closing date is 25 September 2026
Job summary
At St Peters Hospital we pride ourselves on our approach to
people with the most complex needs. The service offers a structured assessment
process for people with complex neurological conditions, often complicated by
behaviours that challenge, to support long term care and treatment planning.
The service focuses on interdisciplinary formulation of needs and the
development of interventions aimed at improving quality of life and using least
restrictive approaches with people who may have struggled in community or secondary
care placements.
To do this, we need the skills of a diverse MDT. Our
therapies teams are at the centre of this approach, working alongside
colleagues from nursing, psychiatry and clinical neuropsychology to deliver the
best standard of care. Alongside the traditional MDT, we have dedicated
activities coordinator role, who supports the planning and integration of the
hospitals programme of therapeutic support.
Main duties of the job
St Peters Hospital is a 51-bedded hospital based in
Newport, providing services commissioned by NHS Wales and England. It caters
for people with organic conditions, including the dementias, Huntingtons
disease, alcohol-related brain damage, and acquired brain injury. The people we
support and treat often present with behavio
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