Band 6 Specialist Occupational Therapist
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Part-time, Flexible working
- Posted
- 01/09/2026
- Closes
- 10/09/2026
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 an exciting opportunity for a Band 6 Occupational Therapist to join the Solihull Community Respiratory Team. You will provide specialist assessment, treatment, and rehabilitation for patients with respiratory conditions across various settings, including community venues, hospital sites, and patients' homes. The role involves working flexibly across the service, supporting respiratory outpatients, community services, and pulmonary rehabilitation programmes to enhance patients' independence, function, and quality of life.
Essential criteria
- \\* Diploma or Degree in Occupational Therapy.
- \\* Registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC).
- \\* Evidence of ongoing Continuing Professional Development (CPD),including recent postgraduate training relevant to the clinical speciality.
Desirable criteria
- \\* Member of specialist interest group.
- \\* Attendance at Clinical Educators course.
- \\* Demonstration of clinical experience enabling the post holder to manage a caseload of patients within the speciality.
- \\* A specialist knowledge across a range of Occupational Therapy treatments, routine and non-routine requiring expertise within the field of occupational therapy.
- \\* Experience of working with student occupational therapists and therapy support workers.
- \\* An ability to analyse clinical and non clinical complex facts and situations, which require the interpretation and comparison of a range of options.
- \\* An ability to plan, organise, formulate and adjust complex plans.
- \\* An ability to supervise and delegate work to therapy colleagues, support workers and students.
- \\* Understanding of current legislation and application to Occupational therapy.
- \\* Experience of supporting students and more junior therapy staff.
- \\* An understanding of discharge routes in the community
- \\* Diploma or Degree in Occupational Therapy.
- \\* Registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC).
- \\* Evidence of ongoing Continuing Professional Development (CPD),including recent postgraduate training relevant to the clinical speciality.
- \\* Member of specialist interest group.
- \\* Attendance at Clinical Educators course.
- \\* Demonstration of clinical experience enabling the post holder to manage a caseload of patients within the speciality.
- \\* A specialist knowledge across a range of Occupational Therapy treatments, routine and non-routine requiring expertise within the field of occupational therapy.
- \\* Experience of working with student occupational therapists and therapy support workers.
- \\* An ability to analyse clinical and non clinical complex facts and situations, which require the interpretation and comparison of a range of options.
- \\* An ability to plan, organise, formulate and adjust complex plans.
- \\* An ability to supervise and delegate work to therapy colleagues, support workers and students.
- \\* Understanding of current legislation and application to Occupational therapy.
- \\* Experience of supporting students and more junior therapy staff.
- \\* An understanding of discharge routes in the community
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 6 at £37,338 – £44,962 a year, across England.
This advert: £39,959 – £48,117 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 6 Occupational Therapist to join the Solihull Community Respiratory Team. Working as part of a friendly multidisciplinary team, you will provide specialist assessment, treatment and rehabilitation for patients with respiratory conditions across a variety of settings, including community venues, hospital sites and patients' homes.
You will work flexibly across the service, supporting respiratory outpatients, community services and pulmonary rehabilitation programmes to help patients improve their independence, function and quality of life.
Main duties of the job
\*Take delegated responsibility from the Band 7 therapist for managing patients with a range of conditions, providing specialist therapy assessments and developing appropriate treatment plans.
\*Undertake comprehensive assessments for patients with diverse or complex presentations and multipathologies, using advanced clinical reasoning and manual assessment techniques to formulate accurate diagnoses of conditions and associated problems.
\*Formulate and recommend Occupational Therapy treatment programmes based on sound knowledge of evidencebased practice, clinical assessment, and professional reasoning.
\*Ensure the safe and competent use of all equipment, patient appliances, and aids, and ensure that junior staff and assistants achieve competency befor
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