Job summary
- Main area
- Occupational Therapy
- Grade
- 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 395-AR018-26
- Employer
- NELFT NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Block 8, Goodmayes Hospital,
- Town
- Ilford,
- Salary
- £31,049 - £37,796 per annum (Plus HCAS) pro-rata for part-time
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 09/03/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Occupational Therapist - Intermediate Care
5
Joining #TeamNELFT means you’ll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We’re CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London, and Essex. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.
The Trust has award winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development, because when you are valued and supported, we provide the best care to our patients. We are a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, have been featured in the Working Families Top 10 Employers benchmark for five consecutive years, and we have achieved a Carers UK Level 1 Accreditation. Along with our staff networks and training opportunities, we work hard to embed a just and compassionate culture here at NELFT.
Find out more about NELFT careers and what makes our Trust a great place to work, in this video
Job overview
Qualifying this year? Ready to start you occupational therapy career or enhance your skills by gaining experience in community rehabilitation?
We are looking for highly motivated, passionate occupational therapists to join our NELFT London Intensive Rehabilitation Service.
We can offer excellent work - life balance and benefits including:
· Protected CPD time with a varied In Service Training Programme
· Regular supervision
· NHS pension
· Close transport links into London
- Opportunity for service development and audit
- Flexibility within our 7 day working services
- Agile working devices to support community based working
- High cost area supplement
- Salary Sacrifice car scheme
- Possible rotation within physical and mental health teams.
If you are interested in coming to work for NELFT and meet our criteria we would we would welcome your application.
Main duties of the job
The IRS is a large multidisciplinary London based community team of Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Nurses and Rehab Assistants. We offer physical rehabilitation as an alternative to hospital bed-based rehabilitation, supporting patients to recover at home within their own environment. We work closely with the Inpatient Rehabilitation Services and acute partners to enable early facilitated discharges whilst supporting patients through an intensive rehabilitation programme in the community. As a Band 5 Occupational Therapist within the team, you will manage your own caseload of community patients.
Working for our organisation
Our Values 2025 - 2030
Working with our colleagues, patients and carers we have co-produced three new values that we aim to embed within our culture here at NELFT.
They are:
- We are kind.
- We are respectful.
- We work together with our communities.
These three values help us to strive to provide the best care by the best people.
Probationary Period
This post will be subject to a probationary period. Internal applicants are exempt from the probationary period (unless you are an internal applicant currently part way through a probationary period or currently a bank member of staff).
Starting with Us
NELFT places great importance on new starters being properly welcomed into the Trust. All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks, including mandatory training, systems training and the allocation of equipment. As part of the process, new starters will also have the opportunity to meet the executive team, senior managers, and attend several drop-in sessions focusing on engagement, health and wellbeing, and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office in Goodmayes, Essex.
High Cost Area Supplement - Outer London
This post also attracts payment for High Cost Area Supplement of 15% of the basic salary (with a minimum of £4,714 to a maximum of £5,941 p.a. pro rata for part time).
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The main responsibilities of the post are:
1. Use a range of skills and experience gained in clinical practice to complete comprehensive, clinically reasoned assessments to devise person specific treatment plans enabling patients within productivity, self-care and leisure.
2. Use excellent communication skills to be an effective team member
3. Monitor, evaluate and modify treatment for patients with multiple in order to measure progress and ensure effectiveness of effectiveness of treatment.
Please see the attached job description and person specification for more information about this role and working at North East London NHS Foundation Trust. We encourage you to refer to this when completing your application.
We welcome your application even if you do not meet all the criteria listed in the person specification. Please apply as soon as possible as some posts close early to limit the number of applications.
Certificates of Sponsorship
Although we are a registered sponsor organisation, we are unable to offer sponsorship for all job roles. Please check your eligibility under the UKVI points-based system. When calculating the basic salary for sponsorship, HCAS (High-Cost Area Supplement) is not included to ensure fairness and consistency within our Trust.
Use of AI
Please see attached document regarding acceptable use of AI during the recruitment process.
Person specification
Education
Essential criteria
- BSC OT
- HCPC
Desirable criteria
- RCOT membership
Experience
Essential criteria
- NHS experience
Desirable criteria
- community therapy experience
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Niamh Mc Phillips
- Job title
- IRS manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 03003001836
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