B7 Advanced Occupational Therapist - Acute Neurosciences

Job summary

• An exciting B7 post is available within our dynamic and friendly Neurosciences team.

This is a chance to work within a highly specialist team in Queen's Hospital Regional Neurosciences Centre. You will have opportunity to use high level clinical skills across a wide range of elective and acute conditions across our wards, including acquired brain injury, spinal trauma, spinal cord injury, neuro-oncology, and acute neurology.

You will be working within our integrated team, delivering clinical care, providing team support, and helping to develop the service across acute wards including critical care. The successful candidate would be working alongside Band 7 Occupational / Physiotherapy colleagues.

Queen's Hospital is a busy new-build hospital situated on the fringes of London with access also into the countryside of Essex. In line with the Government agenda for the NHS and in order to achieve the highest quality of care for our patients we have moved to a 7 day service and are looking for a person who will enjoy the benefits of this working pattern.

If you want a rewarding opportunity where you will be encouraged to influence and develop whilst being valued and supported then apply today.

Main duties of the job
To provide specialist assessment, treatment and advice to patients within your area of speciality, facilitating and maximising patient potential within the service boundaries.

This will involve working with various neuroscience pathologies such as spinal surgery, spinal cord injury, spinal trauma, traumatic brain injury, brain haemorrhage, neuro-oncology and acute neurology conditions.

The post holder will be expected to be able to provide their specialist skills within ward and neuro-intensive care environments (and across sites as per work demands).

To give highly specialist guidance and advice to other members of the Multidisciplinary Team (MDT) on matters relating to your specialist area.

This may include participation within the Neuro-Outliers Team.

Provide leadership for the Occupational Therapy team, in conjunction with the Clinical Lead and other Band 7 staff, in planning, coordinating, delivering and evaluating the Occupational Therapy service provided to patients within your specialist area on a day-to-day basis.

To provide a lead role in teaching, supervising and appraising peers, Band 6 and Band 5, Student Occupational Therapists, Therapy Assistants on a day-to-day basis.

To deputise in the absence of senior colleagues as required.

To contribute to the day to day running and development of the service through the promotion, adaptation and development of policies, procedures and guidelines using evidence-based practice and current research.

About us
We're an organisation that is getting better and better and our improvements are driven by a determination to deliver care we're proud of and our patients are happy with.

They are benefitting from a new electronic patient record (we were the last acute trust in London to introduce one) and our maternity services have been rated good by the Care Quality Commission.

We operate from two main sites - KGH in Goodmayes and Queen's Hospital in Romford. We have two busy emergency departments with more than 346,000 people visiting them last year. We're campaigning to secure the £35m we need to transform the A&E at Queen's and get rid of corridor care.

We're proud of our regional Neurosciences Centre, Radiotherapy Centre and Hyper Acute Stroke Unit. We're also part of the North East London Cancer Alliance.

We run a Women's Health Hub in Ilford; an Ageing Well Centre in Hornchurch; and Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) at Barking Community Hospital and at St George's Health and Wellbeing Hub. These CDCs are open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week.

The majority of our 8,400 staff - who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. Many can work flexibly and more than 400 of them are on our Ofsted accredited apprenticeship programmes. We're proud to be a London Living Wage employer.

Details

• Date posted: 23 October 2026
• Pay scheme: Agenda for change
• Band: Band 7
• Salary: £55,524 to £62,652 a year per annum inclusive
• Contract: Permanent
• Working pattern: Full-time
• Reference number: 162-8050-CCS

Person Specification
Education/Qualifications
Essential

• H.C.P.C. Registration
• Degree/Diploma in Occupational Therapy

Skills/Abilities
Essential

• Sound knowledge of relevant neurosurgical and neurological conditions

Desirable

• Evidence of developing service provision

Experience/Knowledge
Essential

• At least 12 months clinical experience as a Neurological Occupational Therapist (including some exposure to neurosurgical patients).
• To have at least 18 months experience at Band 6 level (or above) or demonstrate significant relevant other experience.

Desirable

• Training of Occupational Therapy students on placements
• Experience in administering trust policies e.g. sickness, performance etc

Employer contact details
Clinical Lead Therapist B8a Neurosciences
Mark Mainwood
mark.mainwood@nhs.net
01708435000

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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