Specialist Occupational Therapist | The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 11 June 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £44,806 - £53,134 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 16 July 2025 |
| Location: | Chelsea, SW3 6JJ |
| Company: | The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 7262136/282-SA756 |
Summary
Are you an enthusiastic and compassionate Occupational Therapist looking to develop your career in a world-renowned centre of excellence?
At The Royal Marsden, we are proud to offer a supportive, innovative, and professionally enriching environment for Occupational Therapists at all stages of their careers. Whether you're newly qualified or looking to take the next step, this is the place to grow, thrive, and make a real impact.
Why Join Us?
• Structured Preceptorship Programme
Our preceptorship pathway is designed to support Band 5 and 6 Occupational Therapists, helping you build confidence, consolidate clinical skills, and develop professionally from day one.
• Dedicated Practice Educator
We’re proud to have a forward-thinking Practice Educator who not only supports student placements but also pioneers innovative models of training. This approach engages service leads as well as frontline staff—lightening the load on clinicians while improving the quality of our training delivery.
• Generous CPD Support
We invest heavily in your development. You’ll benefit from:
• Access to multiple CPD funding streams including charitable funds
• 10 days of protected study leaveper year
• Opportunities to attend external courses, conferences, and specialist training
• Strong and Visible OT Leadership
Our robust Occupational Therapy leadership team is committed to supporting yourcareer progression,wellbeing, andongoing development. Your voice is heard, and your growth is championed.
The Band 6 Occupational Therapist is an active member of a team that provides a high quality, evidence based occupational therapy service for the patient with cancer.
As a skilled practitioner, the postholder is a source of knowledge and expertise for patients, relatives and colleagues of all disciplines.
With the support of the Band 7 Occupational Therapist, they will organise occupational therapy activities within a defined clinical area and will also liaise closely with all members of the multi-professional rehabilitation team in the provision of a specialist input to a variety of education programmes.
The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust is a world-leading cancer centre. Our role is to offer our patients the best cancer care available anywhere in the world, and to continue to make a global contribution to finding better ways of diagnosing and treating cancer. We employ over 4,500 staff in a diverse range of careers including nursing, medical, science, radiography, pharmacy, occupational therapy, finance and administrative services. We have two hospitals – one in Chelsea, London, and one in Sutton, Surrey – as well as a Medical Daycare Unit in Kingston Hospital.
At The Royal Marsden, we deal with cancer every day, so we understand how valuable life is. When people entrust their lives to us, they have the right to demand the very best. That's why the pursuit of excellence lies at the heart of everything we do.
At the heart of the hospital is our dedicated team. We offer a stimulating and dynamic working environment, a wide range of staff benefits, learning and development opportunities and clear career pathways. There are opportunities to work flexibly across a range of areas and specialities and we welcome flexible working requests from point of hire to support employees work life balance. We are looking for employees who aspire to excellence, share our values and can play a crucial role in our on-going achievements.
Come and join us—be part of something exceptional.
You will be joining a supportive and friendly team of qualified Occupational Therapists working in an acute setting to support needs of patients undergoing cancer treatment across all tumour groups. There is excellent internal and external CPD opportunities, generous support for study leave, parking onsite, and comprehensive staff benefits via Vivup.
We encourage you to contact us to discuss the role if you are interested in applying.
Please contact Lauren Blackburn on lauren.blackburn@rmh.nhs.uk or 0208 661 3090.
For more information please refer to the job description and personal specification.
Working autonomously in ward and outpatient settings to provide complex clinical assessment of the biomechanical, sensory, psychological, cognitive, perceptual and interpersonal deficits affecting the functioning of individuals with cancer, their families and carers through the use of advanced clinical reasoning.
Developing and implementing individual specialised therapeutic rehabilitation programmes specific to patient’s needs based on activity analysis using a client-centred, problem solving approach.
Developing and implementing treatment and educational groups for people with cancer and their carers such as Health & Well Being groups.
Assessing and prescribing the complex wheelchair and specialist seating needs for example paralysis, dystonia, major surgery, extreme fatigue, pressure relief of patients with cancer.
This advert closes on Wednesday 25 Jun 2025
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