Occupational Therapist – Band 6

Location: MoD – Stanford Hall, Loughborough
Area: East Midlands
Salary: £28.28 per hour Umbrella
Job Type: Locum
Contract Length: 10 Weeks
Working Hours: 37.5 hours per week

Job Details

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 6 Occupational Therapist to join the Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre (DMRC) at Stanford Hall, Loughborough, on a 10-week locum contract.

The successful candidate will provide a specialist, peripatetic Occupational Therapy service within Occupational Health, working autonomously and as part of a multidisciplinary team. You will support Service Personnel with a range of health conditions, assessing their functional capacity and providing specialist advice to facilitate safe and sustainable return-to-work outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

• Work autonomously without direct supervision and remain accountable for your professional actions.

• Support the delivery of a peripatetic Occupational Therapy service within Occupational Health.

• Provide specialist clinical advice and training on the value and contribution of Occupational Therapy within Occupational Health to multidisciplinary colleagues and external organisations.

• Support the Occupational Medicine Consultant in providing timely and appropriate Occupational Health advice to key stakeholders.

• Maintain direct responsibility for an allocated caseload, ensuring each Service Person has an accurate and regularly reviewed plan of care.

• Assess Service Personnel with a range of diagnoses, considering complex biopsychosocial factors that may affect their ability to return to work.

• Assess the impact of diagnosis and prognosis on functional capacity and occupational performance.

• Undertake a range of standardised and non-standardised Occupational Therapy assessments, including:

  • Workplace adaptations

  • Functional Capacity Evaluations (FCE)

  • Job demand analysis

  • Functional assessments

• Make complex clinical decisions and produce detailed specialist reports to support Occupational Health recommendations.

• Assess individuals and identify wider population trends using a range of assessment and intervention approaches.

• Work collaboratively with Occupational Medicine, multidisciplinary colleagues and relevant stakeholders to support effective clinical outcomes.

• Ensure all assessments, recommendations and interventions are appropriately documented.

Essential Skills & Experience

• Degree or equivalent qualification in Occupational Therapy.

• Current HCPC registration.

• Significant post-registration Occupational Therapy experience, ideally within Occupational Health, vocational rehabilitation or rehabilitation.

• Experience assessing functional capacity and occupational performance.

• Knowledge of Functional Capacity Evaluation (FCE) and/or job demand analysis.

• Experience considering complex biopsychosocial factors when assessing an individual’s ability to return to work.

• Strong clinical reasoning and autonomous decision-making skills.

• Excellent report-writing and communication skills.

• Ability to work effectively within a multidisciplinary environment.

• Understanding of workplace adaptations and vocational rehabilitation principles.

Why Apply?

• £28.28 per hour Umbrella

• 10-week locum opportunity.

• Full-time 37.5 hours per week.

• Specialist role within the Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre.

• Opportunity to develop valuable Occupational Health and vocational rehabilitation experience.

• Autonomous working within a specialist multidisciplinary environment.

Reference Code: U.NHSJ Q0004-42534-1.002009. B20969