Band 6 Early Intervention Occupational Therapist

Birmingham Community Health Care Nhs Foundation Trust

Birmingham

On-site

GBP 40,000 - 48,000

Part time

11 days ago

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Job summary

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS FT is recruiting a Band 6 Early Intervention Occupational Therapist to join the Community Team in Birmingham. It is a part-time, permanent role on the Agenda for Change pay scale.

The successful candidate will assess and treat patients in their homes and local community settings, promoting home-first rehabilitation and multidisciplinary collaboration to improve outcomes.

Qualifications

Responsibilities

Lead and promote home-first rehabilitation in the community.
Assess and intervene with patients in their homes and community settings.
Work multi-professionally within the MDT to improve clinical and performance outcomes.

Job description

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS FT

Band 6 Early Intervention Occupational Therapist

The closing date is 22 September 2026

Job summary

Looking for a new opportunity to develop your skills in rehabilitation?

Want to live in the youngest city in Europe? Truly cosmopolitan with a diverse population of over 1.1 million, Birmingham has the largest open space in Europe and fantastic network links to the rest of the UK.

Look no further, we have an exciting opportunity for you to join our Early Intervention Community Team within Birmingham Community Health Care NHS Foundation Trust, the largest community trust in the country.

Part of a wider Early Intervention programme, which has delivered in the last 12 months: 77,000 fewer acute bed days used, 19,000 fewer non-acute bed days and people spend 11.5 fewer days in the system. Overall having an impact of £25.8 million saved for Birmingham to reinvest in Health and Social Care developments.

Main duties of the job

Six health and social care organisations joined forces in the region to deliver this truly integrated service. Alongside BCHC, other partners include Birmingham City Council, University Hospitals Birmingham, Birmingham & Solihull Mental Health Foundation Trust, Birmingham and Solihull CCG and Sandwell and West Birmingham CCG.

You will be joining a community team in the midst of one of the largest Health and Social Care transformations in the country, with exciting changes and developments, preventing avoidable hospital admissions, premature admission to long‑term residential care and facilitating early hospital discharge, plus the added bonus of Birmingham being a fantastic place to work and live.

A real opportunity to work within the self‑motivated and aspirational MDT daily, we are currently looking for someone to dynamically lead and promote a culture of home first rehabilitation, so the people of Birmingham are treated in the right place at the right time, evidenced by clinical and performance outcomes. Working multi‑professionally, completing assessments and interventions, whilst ensuring the delivery of high quality intervention to patients within their own homes and other community settings.

About us

IMPORTANT

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (BCHC) has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people, parents and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehabilitation Centre and one of Europe's leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.

Details

Date posted

16 September 2026

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£39,959 to £48,117 a year per annum, pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern