Advanced Specialist Occupational Therapist

Northamptonshire Healthcare Nhs Foundation Trust; Northampton; On-site; GBP 49,000 - 57,000; Part time

Job summary

Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust NHS is seeking an Occupational Therapist for the Intermediate Care team in Northampton. You will support people across Northamptonshire, work with Nurses, Doctors, and support workers to plan rehabilitation in patients’ homes, and help with timely hospital discharges.

Applicants must have HCPC registration and a relevant OT degree, with experience in community multidisciplinary teams and care for older adults.

Qualifications

• Professional qualification and HCPC registration in occupational therapy.
• Experience working with older adults in rehabilitation services.
• Experience within community multidisciplinary teams.
• Experience assessing complex patients and situations requiring detailed analysis.
• Experience providing clinical and managerial supervision.

Responsibilities

• Provide expert clinical resource for the team and support staff development.
• Identify and develop knowledge and skills within the team.
• Work with community team to ensure high quality service delivery.
• Contribute to planning and delivery across countywide urgent community care.
• Support timely discharges and rehabilitation goals with colleagues.

Skills

Good communication skills

Manual handling experience

Experience in rehabilitation witholder

Experience in community MDTs

Education

State Registered Occupational Therapist

HCPC registration

Relevant degree/qualification in occupational therapy

Job description

Job summary

Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust NHS is delighted to announce an opportunity for an Occupational Therapist in the Intermediate Care team based in Northampton to support the people across the county of Northamptonshire.
Join us as part of our Countywide Urgent Community Response Team working to get people out of hospital or preventing hospital admission by playing a major part in their rehabilitation journey, setting goals and support planning with Nurses, Doctors and support workers as an integrated approach for patients in their own home environments.
In addition you will be working with colleagues in both our acute and community hospitals to facilitate timely discharges from hospital.
Applicants must hold a valid UK driving licence, have access to a vehicle for work purposes at all times on duty and confident to drive in all driving conditions for this community post. Applicants will be flexible and adaptable, being able to respond to need at short notice.
To be considered for this role you must:

• Have previous experience in a similar role
• Have HCPC registration & relevant degree/qualification in physio or occupational therapy
• Good communication skills
• Manual handling experience

Main duties of the job

You should have a wide range of clinical expertise ideally within the NHS and with experience of working in a community multidisciplinary team environment and have managed healthcare assistants
As an expert clinical resource for the team you will be expected to support staff in identifying and developing their knowledge and skills. You must be innovative in your approach and willing to work with other members of the community team to ensure high quality service delivery.
With a fantastic ethos our dedicated team has a passion for quality care who are experts in this field. In order to respond to the healthcare needs of the local population, the teams operate 7 days a week ensuring the delivery of the service can react to the patients’ needs as and when required.
If you are innovative, talented and adaptable, and would like to be part of a growing and forward thinking community team then come and join us. The NHS is expanding in the Community.
The Trust is committed to supporting ongoing education of Allied Health Professionals and there are opportunities for staff to progress their careers with our leadership programmes.

About us

NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools. We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.

Details

Details
Closing date: 09 November 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 7
Salary: £49,387 to £56,515 a year pa pro rata
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Part-time, Flexible working
Reference number: 270-TH462-AD
Job locations: Countywide working - based from Romic House, Kettering, Northamptonshire, NN16 8TD, United Kingdom

Person Specification

Essential

• Professional qualification
• State Registered Occupational Therapist
• Evidence of CPD including attendance at recent post graduate learning relevant to clinical field of Intermediate Care
• Experience working with older adults in rehabilitation services.
• Experience working within community multidisciplinary teams.
• Experience assessing complex patients and situations requiring detailed analysis.
• Experience providing clinical and managerial supervision.

Desirable

• Experience leading large-scale service improvement initiatives or quality improvement project qualification
• Additional postgraduate qualifications relevant to urgent community care.

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. Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.