Specialist OT community Stroke and Neuro - 12 months FTC
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Fixed-term
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 27/08/2026
- Closes
- 10/09/2026
Sponsorship verdict
Candidates needing sponsorship are encouraged to apply.
HiveMind found a sponsorship-friendly statement in the source advert welcoming applicants who require a visa. Always confirm on the source before applying.
“Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications.”Quoted verbatim from the source advert
Role summary
This is a 12-month fixed-term contract for a Specialist Occupational Therapist to work within the Islington MDT Stroke and Neuro Team. The role involves providing assessment, advisory, and treatment services to community clients with neurological conditions. You will work flexibly with the team to deliver integrated rehabilitation in various settings, including inpatient facilities and clients' homes. The caseload is varied, focusing on individuals with mobility, cognitive, and neurological problems.
Key responsibilities
- Manage a caseload of clients with simple to complex needs, with supervision from senior staff.
- Monitor, evaluate, and review occupational therapy treatment/interventions within a multi-disciplinary framework.
- Develop and conduct Occupational Therapy intervention, assessing occupational needs and addressing quality of life, physical, cognitive, affective, social, and environmental issues.
- Use developed physical skills in client interventions, such as upper limb rehabilitation, activities of daily living, and splint fabrication.
- Devise and manage individual treatment plans through functional rehabilitation, adaptation, equipment provision, education, and health promotion.
- Supervise students and colleagues as needed.
Essential criteria
- degree in OT or equivalent
- HCPC registration
- post grad courses - normal movement, counselling, neurology, COOP, Postural management
- demonstrates active involvement in MDT work
- demonstrates strong clinical reason skills with assessment and treatment planning
- demostrates use of safe manual handling practices
- Demonstrates ability to work as a long worker
- demonstrates ability to self motive and take the initiative
- demonstrates good time management and organisational skills
- Demonstrates ability to prioritise and problem solve
- Demonstrates a client centred approach to care
- Demonstrates strong concepts of OT role within community neuro rehab
- shows knowledge of up to date evidence based practice including a variety of neuro assessment and treatment approaches
- previous experience in the NHS
- previous experience in stroke and neuro community rehabilitation
- Experience working in the NHS
- Demonstrates ICARE values
- Flexibly approach to changing circumstances and departmental needs
- able to manage own wellbeing and support colleagues as needed
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 6 at £37,338 – £44,962 a year, across England.
This advert: £47,951 – £56,863 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
Posted 4d ago · Closes in 11d
Plenty of time to prepare a strong application.
Full advert · preview
Job summary
this is a 12 months fixed term contract to work within the Islington MDT Stroke and Neuro Team comprising of PT, PT, SLT, CHP.
To provide an assessment, advisory and treatment service to community clients with neurological conditions referred or admitted to the Islington Locality Therapies Service, working flexibly with all other members of the team to provide an integrated rehabilitation service in accordance with the philosophy and operational policies of the service.
Clients may be seen in a variety of settings, including inpatient facilities, their own homes, residential homes, places of work and leisure facilities. The caseload is varied and comprises people who have mobility, cognitive and neurological problems
The caseload is varied and comprises people who have mobility, cognitive and neurological problems
Main duties of the job
Please see the Job Description and the Persons Specification for further details about the job role. If you are unable to access the PDF, the details of the job description can also be found in the 'Detailed Job Description and Main responsibilities' section.
About us
Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is
Join the community to read the full pack, responsibilities and person-specification in one place.
Your seat is reserved — activate it
CareerHive is included with your CareerHive Skool community membership. If you haven't claimed your account yet, join the community (or sign in with the same email you joined with) to unlock the full advert, the apply link, HiveMind AI interview & application suite, your private vault, and daily sponsorship alerts.