Specialist Occupational Therapist: Development Post | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 12 February 2026 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £35,763 - £43,466 pa inc |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 14 March 2026 |
| Location: | Sidcup, DA14 6LT |
| Company: | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7767084/277-7767084-CPH |
Summary
Specialist Occupational Therapist: Development Post
***Important Sponsorship Information for this post: We are currently unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post***
Are you a Band 5 Occupational Therapist keen to build your clinical skills in adult neurological care within the community and progress to a Band 6 role? The successful candidate will follow a competency-based development plan, aiming for specialist Band 6 status within 12-24 months.
Our multi-disciplinary team offers evidence-based interventions to clients at home, in care settings, and locally, with regular joint working. Supported by our OT team, you'll assess and treat adults with complex neurological conditions such as stroke, MND, MS, head injury, and Parkinson’s.
We promote ongoing professional development through in-service training and structured supervision. Applicants are required to have completed a range of practical placements, have experience of using standardised OT assessments and worked in a multi-disciplinary team.
Experience with neurological conditions is required; recent rehab-focused training is helpful but not essential. Strong understanding of OT roles, autonomy, advanced communication, flexible problem-solving and efficient caseload management are vital.
If you’re an adaptable, motivated OT seeking growth in a supportive, friendly, client-focused team, we welcome your application.
The service is a Multidisciplinary Rehabilitation Service that is specialist in neurological conditions. It is community-based and community-focussed, providing a specialist rehabilitation service to the person in the place most suited to their current need, which includes, but is not limited to their place of residence, day centre, place of work. The service also provides a small outpatient gym.
The service has elements that run from 08:00 to 17:00, which means the team is able to provide opportunities for flexible working. The team offers a weekend service, therapists are allocated around 1 in 6 weekend shifts with rostered days off, taken during the week.
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.
We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.
Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:
• We’re Kind
• We’re Fair
• We Listen
• We Care
To provide neurology assessment and occupational therapy treatment to clients as part of the specialist Community Neurorehabilitation service.
To review and reflect on own practice and performance through effective use of professional and operational supervision and appraisal guided by KSF or competency frameworks and HCPC regulations.
To work with service users to identify OT goals as part of the multi-disciplinary care plan, OT assessment tools & treatment techniques.
To assess for and provide / order equipment to enhance independence in daily living skills for service users with complex physical disability.
To monitor, evaluate and modify treatment in order to measure progress and identify outcomes.
To apply a high level of understanding of the effect of disability and provide training and advice on life skills to maximise functional ability
This advert closes on Thursday 26 Feb 2026
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