Senior Occupational Therapist in OPS | University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 22 August 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £38,682 - £46,580 pa/pro rata |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 21 September 2025 |
| Location: | Poole, BH15 2JB |
| Company: | Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 7415585/153-SP04959 |
Summary
An exciting and appealing opportunity has arisen for a Senior Occupational Therapists to join our Older Persons’ Therapy Service (OPS).
The OPS Team includes the following areas:
• Emergency Department (ED) & Same Day Emergency Care Unit (SDEC)
• Older Person's Assessment Unit
• Older Person's Acute Wards
• Older Person's Continuing Care Ward
This position will rotate between the Older Person’s Acute Wards and Continuing Care. This is a fantastic opportunity where you will be encouraged and supported to enhance your clinical practice and develop extended skills in frailty, whilst working alongside our highly regarded and innovative Older Person’s Team in the hospital. This role will encompass the use of your excellent clinical and leadership skills, encouraging you to work holistically developing yourself and your colleagues including the supervision of staff.
University Hospital Dorset works in partnership with health and community providers within the county to enable the Discharge to Assess and Home First principles: You will have the opportunity to support patients within the acute hospital and within their own homes to ensure they receive the right service in the best place for them.
Participation in weekend working is an integral aspect of this post which will provide an opportunity to enhance skills within the Emergency Department and Older Person’s Assessment Unit. This post is currently based at Poole Hospital but will relocate to the Bournemouth site in the future.
Within this role you will have the opportunity to utilise your skills to provide excellent services for our patients, to be involved in the training of others, and to expand your own knowledge with training opportunities. So come and join our team!
We are looking for an Occupational Therapist who is competent in completing core therapy assessments providing specialist Occupational Therapy interventions. You will be required to use your core Occupational Therapy skills including assessment of Occupational Performance through activity analysis informing your clinical reasoning and decision making.
Our values define who we are as #TeamUHD. They underpin everything we do now and in the future. They define how we treat our patients, visitors, and each other, our valued team mates and colleagues.
UHD are investing in services across the Trust, with many being transformed and developed following merger and the New Hospital Programme.
In some cases this means that a services may move site this year or next, either temporarily or long term. Recruiting Managers interviewing for this role will be happy to answer any specific questions that you have at interview.
To understand the role in more detail please read the full job description and person specification documents which are attached to this advert
This advert closes on Sunday 7 Sep 2025
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