Band 5 Occupational Therapist

Melksham and Bradford-on-Avon Community Team is looking for a Band 5 Occupational Therapist to work full time in our dynamic and professional team. We are a large, friendly multi-disciplinary team whose aim is to help individuals remain in their own home, reaching their maximum potential. From triage to urgent call outs, rehabilitation following a hospital stay and prevention of hospital admissions, you will work alongside our existing therapists to provide timely and skilled assessment and treatment to our diverse range of patients with physical health conditions. The post-holder will work in patients' homes and residential homes and work professionally in a multi-disciplinary team, alongside Community Nurses, Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists and Clinical Leads. You will also work closely with the GP Practices in the local area.

Main duties of the job

Provide support and education to peers, new staff non-registered staff and students.

About us

About the Company

We change lives by transforming health and care.

Established in 2006, we are one of the UK’s leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

We’re committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

To find out more about HCRG Care Group, please visit our website.

Job responsibilities

You will feel valued as an Occupational Therapist within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• Salary of £29,970 - £36,483 with Agenda for Change terms and conditions and NHS pension
• Free tea and coffee at your base location
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
• Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well as career coaching and counselling
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our Outstanding learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
• An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
• The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding good or outstanding ratings from the Care Quality Commission

Minimum Requirements

• Dip COT/BSc/BSc(Hons)/MSc OT
• Registered as an OT with the Health Professional Council
• To possess a current, valid full driving licence
• Evidence of continuing professional development
• Knowledge of legislation affecting professional practice
• Experience of applying research-based information to practice
• Assessment and care planning
• Working with a multi-disciplinary team
• Experience within a range of patient/client care groups
• To be able to communicate with people from a wide range of backgrounds
• To be able to work flexibly and sensitively
• Wide range of interpersonal and communication skills
• Competence in a wide range of occupational therapy skills
• I.T. literate
• Typing/data inputting skills for accessing patient information
• Manual handling skills and experience
• Ability to sensitively inform service users on emotional issues
• To be flexible and adaptable
• Organisational skills
• Report writing
• Experience of dealing with difficult situations
• Driven to achieve
• Self-motivated
• Good time management

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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.