Clinical Specialist Occupational Therapist

Clinical Specialist Occupational Therapist

The closing date is 26 January 2026.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic, self‑motivated Occupational Therapist, with specialist experience within acute hospital inpatient medical areas to join our dynamic integrated specialty medicine therapy team at Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust. The post is 37.5 hrs per week.

You will provide operational and clinical leadership corin the inpatient specialty medicine therapy team at Worcestershire Royal Hospital Passenger s close with the specialty medicine Physiotherapy Team Leads and with the Therapy Service Lead in supporting and providing an efficient integrated therapy service.

The role includes clinical responsibility for providing an effective, evidence‑based service to a wide range of general medical patients. Your clinical caseload will be within the Renal, Gastro and Cardiology wards. You will be part of an enthusiastic multidisciplinary team on the inpatient wards to provide early assessment and interventions to patients, supporting and facilitating their discharge from hospital.

You will be responsible for the clinical supervision and management of both rotational and static staff, and Therapy support workers. You will also have the opportunity of supervising Therapy students.

You will be committed to improving the quality and development of our service and our team, and are actively encouraged to be involved in Quality Improvement projects.

The post holder will be working as a highly specialist autonomous practitioner, professionally and legally accountable for all aspects of own work, including provision of patient care, documentation and use of specialist equipment.

To deliver advanced Occupational Therapy assessment and treatment for medical patients within an acute ward setting. To act as a source of expertise to fellow clinicians, Trust managers, Healthcare Professionals and other services internal and external to the Trust as required.

To manage, supervise and appraise staff and students.

To lead in training and development of clinical practice and service.

To undertake clinical audits and evaluation of evidence‑based practice, initiating/participating in research within specialist area.

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is a large acute and specialised hospital trust that provides a range of local acute services to the residents of Worcestershire and more specialised services to a larger population in Herefordshire and beyond.

The Trust operates hospital‑based services from three sites in Kidderminster, Redditch and Worcester.

Our workforce is more than 7,000 strong, and our caring staff are recognised as providing good and outstanding patient‑centred care. You could be one of them.

We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us. Our values, which we ask all staff to demonstrate, underpin our everyday work and remain firmly at the heart of all we do.

Being open and honest

Ensuring people feel cared for

Showing respect to everyone

We are proud to have achieved Timewise accreditation – this means we are committed to embedding flexible working within our organisation as a flex‑positive employer.

Any applicants who are offered posts requiring a DBS check as part of their employment check will have the cost of this check (at the current rate) deducted from their salary. Please see link in Supporting Information section for more details on DBS checks and costs.

Please see attached job description for full details.

Job Purpose:

To deliver advanced Occupational Therapy assessment and treatment for medical patients within an acute ward setting.

To act as a source of expertise to fellow clinicians, Trust managers, Healthcare Professionals and other services internal and external to the Trust as required.

To manage, supervise and appraise staff and students.

To lead in training and development of clinical practice and service.

To undertake clinical audits and evaluation of evidence‑based practice, initiating/participating in research within specialist area.

Key Duties:

To be a source of expertise, to…