Central Norfolk Home First Hub Therapist | Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust

Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust; Norwich; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare service provider in Norwich is seeking an experienced Occupational Therapist/Physiotherapist to support the Central Norfolk Home First Hub. This role involves assessing and prescribing care for patients in their homes, facilitating early discharges from hospitals, and preventing unnecessary admissions. The successful candidate will work within an integrated team, providing quality care and support to patients with long-term conditions. Join a newly established team awarded an Outstanding rating by the Care Quality Commission.

Qualifications

• Experience as an Occupational Therapist or Physiotherapist with ability to triage referrals.
• Familiarity with clinical databases; training will be provided.
• Ability to prioritize own workload and work effectively as part of a team.

Responsibilities

• Triage and allocate referrals for patients on Discharge to Assess pathway.
• Assess and prescribe care packages for patients with long-term conditions.
• Facilitate early discharge from hospital.
• Prevent unnecessary admission to hospital.
• Assess and treat patients in own homes or care homes.
• Communicate with health care professionals for integrated service delivery.

Skills

Experience as an Occupational Therapist or Physiotherapist

Ability to triage referrals and coordinate care pathways

Ability to prioritize own workload

Effective communication

Teamwork

Initiative

Tools

Clinical databases (Systmone, IRIS, Liquid Logic)

Job description

Overview

The Central Norfolk Home First Hub is recruiting. We are looking for experienced and reliable Occupational Therapist/Physiotherapist to join our Norwich Place therapy teams. The role provides support to the Central Norfolk Home First Hub, covering the Norwich, South and North places, and will involve working across a 7 day week. There are opportunities to maintain clinical competencies by supporting work in both Procured Beds and Urgent Community Response Therapy Team.

The service is operational during the following hours: Monday to Friday 08:00 – 18:00, Saturday 09:00 – 17:00, Sunday 10:00 – 16:00.

If you thrive on variety in the working day, enjoy multi-tasking and being part of a supportive team, this role is for you.

Key Areas of Responsibility

• Triage and allocation of referrals for patients on Discharge to Assess pathway, assessing the patient’s needs, determining the priority of care, processing and allocating referrals accordingly, liaising with multidisciplinary team to ensure timely responses to referrals based on individual patient needs using the knowledge, skills and expertise of others in the Integrated team.
• Assess and prescribe care packages for patients with long term conditions, the frail & elderly, palliative care and rehabilitation needs to achieve quality of life and independence where possible.
• Work within the integrated team to facilitate early discharge from hospital.
• Work within the integrated team to prevent unnecessary admission to hospital.
• Assess and treat patients in their own homes/care homes.
• Communicate with all health care professionals and statutory/non-statutory agencies to provide a seamless, integrated service to service users on the Discharge to Assess pathway and in community teams.

Requirements and Skills

• Experience as an Occupational Therapist or Physiotherapist with the ability to triage referrals and coordinate care pathways.
• Familiarity with clinical databases (Systmone, IRIS, Liquid Logic); training will be provided.
• Ability to prioritise own workload, communicate effectively, work as part of a team, and use initiative.

The Central Norfolk Home First Hub is an integrated multidisciplinary team of health and social care colleagues. It consists of clinical leads, practice consultants, OTs, Physios, Community Assistant Practitioners and Social Care Assistant Practitioners, supported by Integrated Care Coordinators and business support. It is a newly established and evolving team. Successful applicants will receive regular supervision opportunities.

We are proud to have been awarded an Outstanding rating by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), the highest rating, and the first stand-alone NHS community trust in the country to receive this title.

This advert closes on Monday 6 Oct 2025.