Job summary
We are recruiting for an Occupational Therapist (Rotational) who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.

This post covers Acute Trust rotations at the Lister Hospital, Stevenage and includes Stroke rehabilitation, Acute Assessment unit, General Surgery and Amputees, Orthopaedics, General Medicine and Elderly care.

Within the rotations, we provide strong and established professional leadership, excellent team support and opportunities to contribute to service and clinical development. The rotations are 4.5 months in length to provide the opportunity for you to gain valuable skills in a variety of clinical areas.

You will be joining a proactive, integrated Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy service with excellent peer and senior support. We are looking for someone with sound clinical reasoning and communication skills, as well as an ability to work within a team and to use your initiative.

We would welcome applications from experienced occupational therapists and those who are newly qualified/qualifying.

At the heart of everything we do are our core values: Include, Respect, and Improve. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.

Main duties of the job

• Assess and treat own caseload of patients and maintain own records as an autonomous practitioner with access to a senior member of staff for advice and support on a daily basis.
• Communicate with relevant medical and nursing staff, social workers, and other health care professionals, patients, relatives, and carers who may be in direct contact with regards to patient care.
• Undertake comprehensive and where applicable, standardised assessments of patients looking at all Occupational Performance including self-maintenance, productivity and leisure for patients.
• Undertake assessment and treatment of patients with diverse and complex presentations/multi-pathologies with supervision.
• Work in the hospital setting and carry out accompanied or unaccompanied home visits to assess the patient/client's functioning in their own environment and communicate with relatives and carers regarding further care and/or treatment at home.

About us
At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general & specialist services we provide & our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible & innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

We run the following hospitals: The Lister Hospital, Stevenage; New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City; Hertford County, Hertford; Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood.

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation; our staff & patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. Employees are entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns & we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made & considered formally, & will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.

Person Specification
Essential Qualifications / Training

• Degree/Diploma in Occupational Therapy
• HCPC registration
• Knowledge of current legislation at DOH and CCG level
• Knowledge and application of Professional Code of Conduct and Ethics

Essential Previous Experience

• Ability to maintain CPD through research, audit and training
• Knowledge of Occupational Therapy process
• Evidence of clinical reasoning
• Awareness of assessment tools, OCM's and their application to clinical area
• Knowledge of anatomy and physiology related to clinical area

Desirable Previous Experience

• Knowledge of research methodologies and audit cycles
• Knowledge of Clinical Governance
• Knowledge of NICE/NSF's and application to Occupational Therapy

Essential Skills

• Ability to communicate complex and/or sensitive information requiring empathy and reassurance
• Knowledge of barriers to communication and strategies to overcome them
• Ability to communicate effectively with colleagues, other health professionals, patients and their relatives/carers
• Ability to present information accurately, written and oral in English
• Clinical problem solving ability in routine cases
• Ability to prioritise patient workload
• Physical skills, dexterity, coordination and sensory skills for assessment and manual treatment of patients
• Ability to carry out patient manual handling tasks
• Ability to work on the floor and in cramped spaces
• Ability to manage own time
• Ability to work with interruptions
• Ability to work under time constraints

Essential Other Requirements

• Understanding of, and commitment to, equality, diversity and inclusion
• Role model our Trust values every day
• Eligible to live and work in the UK
• Must be able to travel independently and reliably between sites within working hours to meet the operational requirements of the service

Details
Date posted: 19 October 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 5
Salary: £32,073 to £39,043 a year per annum
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time
Reference number: 361-UPL-8348840

Employer contact details
Clinical Therapy Lead: Emma Bates, emma.bates13@nhs.net, 01438284148

Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

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