Occupational Therapist - Band 5 to 6 Developmental Role | Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Dyddiad hysbysebu:	23 Medi 2025
Cyflog:	Heb ei nodi
Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog:	£32,602 - £39,686 per annum (inc. of HCAS)
Oriau:	Llawn Amser
Dyddiad cau:	25 Hydref 2025
Lleoliad:	Maidenhead, SL6 6DU
Cwmni:	Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Math o swydd:	Parhaol
Cyfeirnod swydd:	7501807/371-TAP-CHS1048

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Are you a Band 5 Occupational Therapist looking for the chance to grow into a Band 6 role?

This development post offers the chance to build your skills and progress your career in a supportive, friendly inpatient therapy team at St Marks Hospital, Maidenhead, with some cross-cover at Upton Hospital, Slough.

You’ll join a close-knit team of OTs, physios, and therapy assistants who work together to help patients regain independence and return home safely. Our service supports adults to return home after a hospital stay, and you’ll manage a caseload on an inpatient ward with a wide mix of complex needs. This role is well suited to someone ambitious, motivated, and keen to develop in an environment where learning and growth are actively supported.

Day to day, you’ll be:
• Assessing patients and creating rehab plans.
• Running or supporting groups such as falls prevention and exercise.
• Working closely with patients, families, and the wider MDT.
• Supporting therapy assistants and students.
• Taking part in ward rounds, case conferences and discharge planning.

We’re rated Outstanding by the CQC and committed to staff wellbeing and growth. You’ll have a clear pathway to Band 6, with a structured competency framework and mentoring from senior colleagues.

Applications will be reviewed as received. We encourage you to apply as soon as possible, as vacancies may close early.

The post will be part of a Multi-Disciplinary Team within an inpatient setting which will offer assessment and treatment for patients in the east of Berkshire.

• To providesupervision guidance to band 3 and 4 support workers in the therapy team. To make recommendations to the wider MDT and to support with education of students.
• Toidentifyservice developments, needs, contribute to the planning, development and evaluation of the service and have responsibility for defined projects.
• Tobe responsible fora complex caseload using an interdisciplinary, patient focused rehabilitative approach with support from the senior therapists.


Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health and community health services trust. Rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC, we’re committed to providing the best possible care to people across Berkshire. As an employer, we’re committed to offering an inclusive and compassionate environment where our people share in a sense of belonging and are supported to flourish.

Our values at Berkshire Healthcare are:
• Caring for and about you is our top priority
• Committed to providing good quality, safe services
• Working Together with you to develop innovative solutions

Your wellbeing is important to us. Some of the benefits of working for us include:
• Flexible working options to support work-life balance
• 27 days’ annual leave rising with service + opportunity to buy and sell
• Generous NHS pension scheme
• Excellent learning and career development opportunities
• ‘Cycle to Work’ and car leasing scheme including electric vehicles
• Access to a range of wellbeing tools and services
• Discounts at hundreds of popular retailers and restaurants
• Staff networks for race, diversity, disabilities, the environment and armed forces community to support equality
• Generous maternity, paternity, adoption and special leave
• Free parking across Trust sites



The “must haves” for this role:
• Degree in Occupational Therapy along with HCPC registration
• A passion for working in a rehabilitation or intermediate care setting
• Car driver & possess full driver’s license to be able to drive in the UK
• Willingness to participate in a 6-day rota.

For further information about the role, please see attached job description and person specification.

We strongly encourage you to review how you meet the criteria in the person specification and write about this point-by-point in your supporting statement for the best chance of being shortlisted.

We’re committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community. Our commitment to inclusion is reflected in our accreditations: Race Equality Matters Silver Trailblazer, Neurodiversity in Business Corporate Member, Disability Confident Leader, Carer Confident Level 2, and the Armed Forces Covenant Gold Award. Reasonable adjustments will be provided to candidates as needed.

We welcome a conversation about flexibility and any other questions you may have. Please don’t hesitate to call: Francesca Turner on 01189 044 727or email: Francesca.turner@berkshire.nhs.uk who’ll be delighted to help.

Please note, if we receive a high number of applications, we may close this role earlier than the advertised closing date, so please submit your application as soon as possible.


This advert closes on Tuesday 21 Oct 2025

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