Band 6 Early Intervention Occupational Therapist - Kenrick

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS foundation Trust; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A community healthcare provider in Birmingham is seeking an Occupational Therapist to join their Early Intervention Community Team. This role involves ensuring access to Occupational Therapy assessments, monitoring treatment programmes, and promoting independence in patients. Ideal candidates will have HCPC/NMC registration and strong communication skills. This position requires shift work across 7 days to align with service delivery, making it a dynamic opportunity to impact patient care in the community.

Qualifications

• Relevant qualification in Occupational Therapy.
• Ability to work in partnership with patients, carers, and other agencies.
• Experience or eagerness to support junior staff and students.

Responsibilities

• Act as a practitioner for Occupational Therapy within Adults Community Services.
• Ensure access to urgent and routine Occupational Therapy assessments.
• Monitor treatment programmes at home and ensure safe discharge.

Skills

Excellent communication

Flexible approach

Passion for 'trusted assessor' principles

Education

HCPC/NMC registration

Job description

Job Opportunity

A Vacancy at Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.

This job advert will close as soon as sufficient applications have been received. Please apply for this job as soon as you can, if interested.

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.

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.

Key Responsibilities

The post holder will act as a practitioner for Occupational Therapy within the Adults Community Services Division. The post holder will ensure access to urgent and routine Occupational Therapy assessment and intervention, provide and monitor treatment programmes at home and ensure safe discharge or referral on to alternative services as appropriate. They will work in partnership with patients, carers and other health and social care agencies to promote independence and develop individual plans of care relevant to person needs.

A person who is an excellent communicator with a flexible approach, and has existing, or an eagerness to establish, links with Health and Social care partners and a passion for 'trusted assessor' principles, will be at an advantage when working in this team. You will have opportunities to support junior staff and students, as well as drive and lead in service development projects and quality patient care.

The post holder will be expected to work shifts as required over 7 days per week in line with service delivery.

HCPC/NMC registrations are a requirement for registered staff roles.

Important

• Please ensure you check your Trac account regularly as this is how we will communicate with you during the shortlisting and selection process.
• Please ensure all sections of the application form are completed fully. Please particularly ensure that you provide full details of all referees including business email address, telephone contact details and postal address.

About Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (BCHC)

BCHC has more than 5,000 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.

How to Apply

Informal enquiries: Jazz – 0121 303 8920, Email: [e-mail].

This advert closes on Friday 19 Dec 2025.