Senior Occupational Therapist - Neuro/Medical Team
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time, Part-time, Job share
- Posted
- 21/09/2026
- Closes
- 04/10/2026
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 role is for a Band 6 Occupational Therapist to join the acute Stroke/Neuro in-patient team at Bedford Hospital. You will assess, treat, and support patients with acute stroke and neurological conditions, working as part of a multidisciplinary team to facilitate timely discharge. The position involves complex assessment, discharge planning, and specialist interventions like seating and cognitive assessments. It offers a rewarding blend of clinical challenge, teamwork, and professional growth within a supportive environment.
Key responsibilities
- Be professionally and legally accountable for all aspects of your work including management of patient caseloads.
- Formulate and develop individual treatment programmes underpinned by sound knowledge of evidence-based practice and using a range of treatment options.
- Use clinical reasoning skills and evaluate outcomes of treatments to continually reassess and develop treatment programmes.
- Establish an accurate prognosis and recommend best course of treatments in addition to developing comprehensive treatment and discharge plans.
- Use a large range of verbal and non-verbal communication tools to communicate with patients to progress and gain participation with rehabilitation treatment programmes.
- Be responsible for management of clinical risk of your own caseload.
Essential criteria
- HCPC Registered
- BSC Hons Occupational Therapy or Diploma in Occupational Therapy
- Demonstrable experience working in a healthcare setting
- Understanding and ability to apply process OT
- Experience of MDT working
- Variety of relevant Neuro/Stroke clinical experience
- IT literate including knowledge of Microsoft office tools
- Demonstrate a pragmatic approach to a range of unpredictable situations
- Professional and customer care skills
- Able to deal with variety of environmental factors
- Ability to prioritise work load and delegate tasks appropriately
- Awareness of Stroke/neuro specific guidelines
- Communicating sensitive information to staff, patients or carers.
- Be able to undertake moderate physical effort throughout day
Desirable criteria
- Leadership course
- Manual handling qualification
- Neuro specific training e.g Bobath
- Supervising practice placements for O.T. students
- Previous audit experience
- Experience of service development
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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Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Senior Occupational Therapist - Neuro/Medical Team
The closing date is 04 October 2026
Job summary
Are you an emerging Band 5 or an existing band 6 who would like to explore a more rewarding managerial and clinical challenge in a specialist setting?
We have an upcoming vacancy in our Stroke/ neuro in-patient acute team. Static band 6 positions very rarely come up in this area.
We have a fantastic opportunity to a recruit a Band 6 Occupational Therapist to work with the team here at Bedford Hospital. Working as part of an acute Stroke/Neuro team, you will be assessing, treating and supporting the MDT to discharge patients from hospital in a timely manner.
The Occupational Therapy Team specialise in complex assessment and discharge planning throughout the hospital. As a Stroke/neuro Occupational Therapist you will work as part of the larger MDT in order to cover the wards within the Bedford site
The team of Occupational Therapists work closely with the MDT to provide specialist assessments, seating assessments, cognitive assessments, acute rehabilitation and identify needs for equipment and packages of care. You will need to be able to work in an autonomous way to facilitate good communication and effectively link with multiple on site and external teams.
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