Specialist Occupational Therapist

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The closing date is 04 October 2026

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a motivated and experienced Band 6 Occupational Therapist to join our dynamic and supportive Urgent Community Response (UCR) and Frailty Virtual Ward (FVW) teams based at Regent Point. This is a fixed- term post for a duration of 12 months from the date of commencement, offering the chance to work within a multi-disciplinary environment committed to delivering high-quality, patient-centred care.

The service operates from 8:00 AM to 8:00 PM, seven days a week. We are happy to consider flexible working arrangements to support work-life balance. You will be well supported by a team of experienced, dedicated, and compassionate professionals who are committed to delivering excellence in community care.

Please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification for a full outline of essential and desirable criteria.

Please note:

A full UK car driving licence and access to a vehicle for work purposes is essential for this role.

To conduct timely and proactive assessments of patients requiring an urgent response within two hours of referral.

To provide short-term rehabilitation and follow-up care to support patients' recovery and prevent deterioration.

To assess and engage with frail patients within the Frailty Virtual Ward, supporting them to achieve optimal levels of safety, independence, health and wellbeing.

To work closely with the multidisciplinary team to provide optimum care to patients.

To maintain frail patients safely at home through comprehensive risk assessments and risk management strategies, with the aim of avoiding unnecessary hospital admission.

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

With around 2 million contacts with patients every year, we deliver care from:

• Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI)
• Freeman Hospital
• Newcastle Dental Hospital
• Newcastle Fertility Centre
• Northern Centre for Cancer Care, North Cumbria
• Northern Genetics Service

These include a range of flagship services which deliver cutting-edge care (supported by state-of-the-art diagnostic services in both radiology and pathology) and are a catalyst for innovation to support pioneering clinical practice in the NHS.

We also have offices at Regent Point in Gosforth and community sites.

Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust under 'Documents to download' or 'Supporting documents'.

For further information on The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust please visit:
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• To work as an Occupational Therapist within the Frailty Virtual Ward Team.
• To provide a high standard of occupational therapy assessment, intervention, treatment and discharge planning to complex and highly complex patients within specialist area evidencing high level problem solving, reasoning skills and independence of judgement.
• To be an active member of the multi-disciplinary virtual ward team and provide day to day supervision of junior and support staff and students working in the specialist area.
• The specialist practitioner is clinically in charge for the Occupational Therapy Service within the area of practice providing highly specialist knowledge within the Trust and externally to therapists and other health care professionals from…