Occupational Therapist - Front Door Therapy Team Band 6

Overview

Occupational Therapist - Front Door Therapy Team Band 6 at University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW). The closing date is 26 February 2026
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Are you passionate about working with people in a fast-paced environment preventing unnecessary hospital admission and assessing patients presenting to hospital? Are you an Occupational Therapist looking for the next step in your career? Or maybe you're looking for an opportunity to make a difference in a large teaching trust as part of a friendly team.

Join the Front Door Therapy Team based at the Bristol Royal Infirmary as a Band 6 Occupational Therapist, where you will work as part of an integrated therapy team to deliver an effective and co-ordinated specialist service across the front door and frailty services of Emergency Department (ED), Medical Assessment Unit (MAU) and Older Person's Assessment Unit (OPAU).

Our team is made up of Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, Apprentice Occupational Therapists and Therapy Technicians, who pride themselves with the support we provide each other and the care we provide to our patients.

Your day-to-day will involve working as part of a multi-disciplinary team, incorporating a comprehensive assessment to identify a patients  needs in the clinical settings of the Emergency Department, the Medical Assessment Unit and the Older Person s Assessment Unit. You will play a key role in encouraging positive risk taking to avoid unnecessary hospital admission and supporting early discharge from hospital with a focus on patient s with frailty.

In addition, you ll have access to benefits and incentives such as:

• Supportive, integrated team working
• IST/journal clubs/ research opportunities
• Protected and regular Clinical supervision from a Team Lead OT/Clinical Specialist OT
• Service development and QI projects
• Cake rotas
• The Front Door Therapy team provides a 7-day service. You will be expected to work a regular weekend pattern and be part of the bank holiday rota.

Want to hear more about the benefits of working at UHBW?  for more staff benefits:

We encourage you to get in touch with Front Door Team Lead Occupational Therapist Katie Byrne for an informal chat on  or email  Fancy meeting in person? Please get in touch and ask for a tour of the department!

University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW) is one of the largest acute Trusts in the country, bringing together a combined workforce of over 13,000 staff and over 100 different clinical services across 10 different sites, serving a core population of more than 500,000 people across South West England. UHBW has been rated by the CQC as  Good  overall and our staff are proud to deliver excellent care to the people of Bristol, Weston and beyond.

As a forward- thinking multi-award winning Trust and a digital exemplar committed to improving patient care, our world-leading research and innovations are having a positive local and global impact. Our hospitals are spread across Bristol and Weston, join us and you can enjoy the very best of both worlds; city living within a stone s throw of the countryside or beside the seaside, both with easy access to all that the South West has to offer.

UHBW is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them.

Anonymous information will be used from your application in order to ensure we re meeting our pledge.

• To independently assess, plan and evaluate therapeutic programmes for patients referred for occupational therapy. Including the use of standardised and non-standardised assessments.
• To complete holistic assessments which include clinical, functional, social, cognitive and emotional elements, completing comprehensive geriatric assessments as appropriate. This includes gaining substantial collateral, social history from a variety of sources, understanding past medical history from patients, family, care providers and other community services involved in the patients care.
• To utilise assessment outcomes to provide high quality and evidence-based interventions to ensure patients needs in occupational performance are being addressed, utilising all treatment approaches within scope of practice.
• To undertake dynamic risk assessments to determine appropriate management, including manual handling & equipment and the effective handover/communication of this to the MDT and local health and social care organisations.
• Use advanced clinical reasoning skills to initiate and facilitate discharge plans in collaboration with relevant MDT members to ensure patients ongoing needs identified and addressed.
• Utilising positive risk…