Rotational Occupational Therapist Band 5

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The closing date is 16 February 2026

Rotational Band 5 Occupational Therapist - UHBW

Permanent, full time and part time (pending approval) opportunities available.

Are you an Occupational Therapist with HCPC registration? Are you looking to start your professional career or looking to gain experience in a wide range of acute clinical settings? Or maybe you re looking for a change in scenery as a junior Occupational Therapist?

Join our large and inspirational Adult Therapies Service as a Band 5 Occupational Therapist, where you will develop your career in line with the RCOT Career Framework!

Our team is made up of 400 colleagues who collaboratively work across Bristol & Weston sites. You can find out more about the Adult Therapies Service here:
Therapies - UHBW Careers

This is an exciting cross-site rotational role where you will gain specialist skills and knowledge to help develop and guide you through your career.

Main duties and responsibilities:

Within this role, you will rotate across a variety of specialities and sites across both Bristol & Weston. These rotations include:

• Medicine
• Trauma and Orthopaedics
• Critical Care, Cardiac and Surgery
• Older Person Therapy including Front Door
• Stroke
• Paediatrics
• Oncology

During your rotation, you ll be building relationships with new teams and adapting to new environments, all that offer unique 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

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.

See attached Job description.

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

We encourage you to get in touch with Pathway Lead Daisy, for an informal chat on  or email  Fancy meeting in person? Please get in touch and ask for a tour of the department! Proposed interview date: 24/02/2026

• Variety of pre-registration placements including a hospital-based placement
• Other related experience in a care or rehab setting, either before or after qualifying
• Evidence of team working

• Demonstrate enthusiasm for this post
• Able to initiate discussions with new people & discuss issues with fluency & confidence

• Able to explain the OT role to others
• Able to identify own learning needs
• Recognises limits of own knowledge & seeks help & advice when needed
• Able to communicate effectively with a wide range of people that is consistent with their level of understanding, culture, background & preferred method of…