Community Occupational Therapist - Woodbridge | East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Colchester Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust; Woodbridge; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading NHS Trust in Woodbridge is seeking a passionate and committed band 6 Occupational Therapist to provide high-quality care in patients' homes. This part-time role offers the opportunity to work within an experienced multidisciplinary team. You will ensure seamless patient care and provide supervision to junior staff. The position includes training, development opportunities, and generous benefits, along with a focus on enhancing patient care through digital transformation.

Benefits

Generous pension scheme

27 days annual leave

NHS discounts

Staff Health and Wellbeing program

Qualifications

• Experienced band 6 Occupational Therapist.
• Passionate and committed to delivering high quality care.
• Ability to work in a changing environment.

Responsibilities

• Provide high standard patient care in patients' homes.
• Ensure seamless flow for patient care between settings.
• Supervise and support more junior staff.
• Triage referrals to the community team.

Skills

Patient care

Supervision

Flexibility

Motivation

Job description

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Woodbridge Community Team. We are looking for an experienced band 6 Occupational Therapist who is passionate, committed, innovative, enthusiastic and highly motivated to delivering high quality care within patient’s homes.

This is a fixed term contract for 22.5 hours per week, with pattern of work to be negotiated.

We are co-located with our nursing and social care colleagues. This is an opportunity to work within a knowledgeable experienced team and wider MDT. You should be flexible, motivated and willing to work within a changing environment. We will provide support through in-service training and professional forums, Mandatory training, 1:1 and personal development meetings as well as clinical rolling skills training via the practice development facilitators. We facilitate students on training and have close working relationships with neighbouring community teams in Health and Social Care.

Main Responsibilities

• To provide high standard patient care in patients homes
• To ensure a more seamless flow for patient care between hospital and community settings, enabling patients to be cared for in their own home environment
• To provide supervision and support to more junior staff
• To triage referrals to the community team

We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients’ own homes. We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff. We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.

Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services. Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.

We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what’s widely regarded as the world’s best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients. If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.

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This advert closes on Sunday 17 Aug 2025.