Occupational Therapist - Band 5

HCRG Care Group; Marlborough; On-site; GBP 29,000 - 36,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive Pay

NHS Pension

Professional Growth

Rewards Gateway discounts

Wellbeing Support

Wagestream access

Learning & Development

Recognition & Involvement

Job summary

HCRG Care Group is seeking a Band 5 Occupational Therapist to join Savernake Hospital, supporting older adults through community hospital-based rehabilitation and complex discharge planning.

You will deliver high-quality, evidence-based care, manage your own caseload and work with a multidisciplinary team to maximise patient independence. You will also support learners and contribute to service improvements.

Qualifications

• HCPC registered as a practitioner.
• Professional Qualification in Occupational Therapy (degree-level).
• Broad range of occupational therapy skills gained through experience.
• Ability to use initiative in busy caseloads.
• Excellent communication and time management skills.
• Desirable: MSK/Community/Acute work-based training; audits & team-based work.

Responsibilities

• Provide a high-quality OT service in a community hospital, planning and delivering evidence-based interventions.
• Manage a caseload, discharge planning, and collaborate with the multidisciplinary team to maximise patient independence.
• Support therapy assistants and students, contributing to a positive learning environment.

Skills

HCPC Registered

OT qualification

Broad OT skills

Initiative

Excellent communicator

Time management

Job description

As a Band 5 Occupational Therapist within our Savernake Hospital, we value you and your contributions, offering a range of benefits to support your professional growth and personal wellbeing:

• Competitive Pay & Pension: Enjoy a Band 5 Agenda for Change salary and NHS pension benefits.
• Professional Growth: Join our Strive for Better networks, connecting with professionals nationwide to develop and share best practices.
• Exclusive Rewards: Access discounts and offers at leading supermarkets, retailers, and experience providers through our Reward Gateway.
• Wellbeing Support: Benefit from our 24/7 free wellbeing service, including counseling, career coaching, and legal advice.
• Flexible Pay Options: Track earnings and access wages through Wagestream, providing financial flexibility.
• Learning & Development: Enhance your career with support from our Learning and Development team, access e-learning, career pathways, and funding opportunities.
• Recognition & Involvement: Celebrate achievements with local and national awards, contribute ideas for service improvements, and stay informed through regular leadership updates.

Job Introduction

Are you a passionate Occupational Therapist looking to make a difference in community rehabilitation? We are seeking a motivated Band 5 Occupational Therapist to join our team at Savernake Hospital, supporting older people through rehabilitation and complex discharge planning within a community hospital setting.

You will deliver high-quality, evidence-based care, manage your own caseload, and work closely with the multidisciplinary team to help patients achieve their goals and maximise independence. You will also support therapy assistants and students, contributing to a positive learning environment.

We are looking for someone with excellent communication and clinical reasoning skills who is enthusiastic, flexible, and committed to patient-centred care. In return, you’ll gain valuable experience in a supportive team while helping to drive innovation and service improvement.

Main Responsibilities

• You will provide a high-quality Occupational Therapy service within a community hospital setting, delivering patient-centred rehabilitation and supporting safe, timely discharges. You will assess, plan and deliver evidence-based interventions, manage your own caseload and work collaboratively within the multidisciplinary team to maximise patient independence.
• You will communicate effectively with patients, carers and colleagues, maintain accurate clinical records, recommend equipment where appropriate and ensure care is delivered in line with professional standards and best practice.
• You will also support service improvement, contribute to the development of therapy support staff and students, and maintain your own continuing professional development.

Ideal candidate

Essential

• HCPC Registered
• Professional Qualification in Occupational Therapy
• Broad range of occupational therapy skills gained through post-registration experience
• Ability to use initiative
• Excellent communicator
• Excellent time management

Desirable

• MSK / Community / Acute work-based training
• Participating in clinical and/or operational audits /evaluations
• Experience working as part of a multi-disciplinary team in hospital and community settings
• Ability to delegate clinical workUse of electronic records

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.

As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.