Rotational Occupational Therapist
| Posting date: | 22 December 2025 |
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| Salary: | £31,049.00 to £37,796.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £31049.00 - £37796.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 08 January 2026 |
| Location: | Wigan, WN1 1XX |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9302-25-0597 |
Summary
To be professionally and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of your own work including the management of patients in your care. To ensure high standards of clinical care for the patients under your management, and support therapy assistants to do likewise. Post holders are required to work independently, guided by defined clinical & professional guidelines. Access to a more senior member therapist is available when necessary. To interpret and analyse clinical and non-clinical facts to form accurate diagnosis and prognosis in a wide range of conditions, to recommend the best course of intervention, and to develop comprehensive treatment and discharge plans. To take delegated responsibility from a senior therapist for managing patients with particular conditions and be responsible for providing generic and occupational therapy assessments and treatment plans for patients within the rotation. Formulate and deliver an individual occupational therapy treatment programme based on a sound knowledge of evidence based practice and treatment options using clinical assessment, reasoning skills and knowledge of treatment skills e.g. graded occupational therapy techniques, patient education, exercises, and other alternative options. To accept clinical responsibility for a designated caseload of patients, and to organise this effectively and efficiently with regard to clinical priorities and use of time. To demonstrate appropriately developed knowledge for the co-ordination of a comprehensive OT plan relevant to the individual being treated. To assist the team in developing policy and procedures within therapy. To provide spontaneous and planned advice, teaching and instruction to relatives, carers and other professionals, to promote understanding of the aims of occupational therapy and to ensure a consistent approach to patient care. To contribute to the provision of advice, teaching and training to other members of the MDT regarding the management of patients within the rotational post you may be working in. To assess capacity, gain valid consent and have the ability to work within a legal framework with patients who lack consent to treatment.