Specialist Occupational Therapist | North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust

An exciting fixed term/secondment opportunity to cover maternity leave until June 2027, has arisen for a part time Specialist Occupational Therapist to join The Trauma and Orthopaedic Therapy Team.The Team is based across 2 sites: elective surgery at Hinchingbrooke Hospital and Trauma Orthopaedics at Peterborough City Hospital. The postpredominantly will be based at the Peterborough site but may also be required to support at Hinchingbrooke.

As a large and thriving team we are looking for an enthusiastic, forward thinking and professional individual to join our friendly and supportive Therapy Service. We are invested in enhancing your specialist clinical knowledge as well as supporting and developing your managerial and leadership skills.

Successful candidate needs to be fully qualified Occupational Therapist with experience in an Acute Hospital environment and HCPC registered, ideally with previous experience working with the management of orthopaedic patients.

Modern healthcare delivery requires a 7-day service and therefore weekend working is required

Interviews for this role will be conducted in person to assess relevant skills effectively.

To enable OT to provide Therapy Skills within the inpatient service in the Specialist field

To ensure safe, efficient and effective delivery of patient focussed care in line with identified evidence based practice, local and national standards

To work collaboratively within Multidisciplinary and Multi-agency Teams

To participate in delegated projects for service development with the team

To act autonomously in the assessment and treatment of patients within the speciality who may have a complex presentation

To demonstrate a flexible approach to working in support of the whole in patient team

To undertake weekend working as required within service developments

To be available to provide Clinical Supervision

This role entails 90% Clinical Contact and 10% Operational Management as appropriate within team requirements

To guide Band 5 and support staff in the management and delivery of therapeutic care plans

Priority will be given to colleagues identified as at risk through the Trust’s redeployment process.

Please see attached the job description and person specification for more details regarding this role.

For further information, please contact Andrea Linnell, Orthopaedic Therapy Service Lead onandrea.linnell@nhs.netor Katie Heaps, Highly Specialist Occupational Therapist onk.heaps@nhs.net.

This advert closes on Thursday 30 Jul 2026