Band 6 Neuro and CRSTAT OT | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Important Sponsorship Information for this post: Due to service budget restrictions we are currently unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post.

Are you an Occupational Therapist looking to develop your career and specialist skills within neurological and general rehabilitation? This is an exciting opportunity to join a busy, supportive and friendly multidisciplinary team.

We welcome applications from OTs wishing to develop their specialist rehabilitation skills, including experienced Band 5 OTs seeking their first Band 6 post. You will need experience of working with adults with neurological and/or long-term conditions and evidence of recent relevant professional development.

You will be a confident and motivated practitioner with strong clinical reasoning and communication skills, able to work autonomously whilst recognising when to seek support. You will demonstrate a flexible, solution-focused approach, effective caseload management and an ability to work collaboratively with patients, families, carers and professionals.

With support and supervision from Clinical Specialist and Band 7 OTs, you will provide specialist assessment and intervention for adults with complex neurological and long-term conditions.

This is an excellent opportunity to develop your rehabilitation skills, clinical autonomy and confidence within a person-centred, goal-focused service.

- To be responsible and accountable for management and implementation of client rehabilitation programmes
- To provide Occupational Therapy assessment as an autonomous and lone practitioner to clients, utilising effective clinical reasoning skills and evidence based practice to develop individual care plans




- To be responsible for obtaining client and/or carer consent prior to Occupational Therapy intervention in accordance with professional guidelines
- To ensure management of clinical risk within own caseload
- To maintain up-to-date clinical written records using trust systems and computerised database in accordance with local and skilled standards; and also writing comprehensive discharge and progress reports to referrers
- To manage a clinical caseload, taking responsibility for decisions regarding review and discharge of clients.
- To work as a member of the MDT
- To support the development of evidence based OT practice
- To participate in research/audit activities
- To supervise the work of OT support staff and OT students on fieldwork placement
- Contribute to and carry out risk assessment & risk management plans
- To provide specialist OT advice to the MDT

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives.



Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

- To be responsible and accountable for assessment, diagnosis and treatment for a wide variety of conditions including complex cases, in the community as an autonomous and lone practitioner to clients.
- To be able to demonstrate specialist knowledge levels and skills in neurology conditions and interventions.
- To demonstrate theoretical knowledge of multiple pathologies and impairments in the assessment of community clients, often in the presence of incomplete or conflicting referral information to form accurate analyses and diagnoses
- Utilize effective clinical reasoning skills and evidence based practice to develop individual specialist rehabilitation management care plans.
- To assess for and provide equipment to enhance independence in daily living skills fo

📌 Band 6 Neuro and CRSTAT OT | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust (Woolwich)
🏢 Oxleas Nhs Foundation Trust
📍 Woolwich