Occupational Therapist Integrated Care Rotation

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Findern CP; Hybrid; GBP 33,000 - 43,000; Full time

Job summary

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is seeking Band 6 Occupational Therapists to join a dynamic rotational service across Community Rehabilitation Hospital, Community Therapy Team, and Hospital at Home Service.

You will develop specialist skills in a range of settings, working within a supportive MDT to maximise patient independence and safe discharge to home environments.

Qualifications

• HCPC registered Occupational Therapist.
• Fluent English language (written and spoken).
• Computer literacy for data entry and report writing.
• Commitment to ongoing professional development and training.

Responsibilities

• Provide assessment, treatment & rehabilitation across Community Rehabilitation Hospital, Community Therapy Team & Hospital at Home Service.
• Work within a multidisciplinary team to maximise independence and support discharge.
• Assess and treat patients in their own homes, enabling admission avoidance and early supported discharge.
• Contribute to integrated health and social care planning, risk assessment and clinical governance.
• Provide supervision for junior staff, assistants & students and participate in service development.

Skills

Multidisciplinary teamwork

Assessment & treatment

Home-based rehabilitation

Discharge planning

Education

HCPC-registered Occupational Therapist

English language proficiency

Computer literacy

Further education/training

UK driving licence

Job description

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Occupational Therapist Integrated Care Rotation

The closing date is 11 November 2026

Community Rehabilitation & Hospital at Home Services

Agenda for Change: Band 6

Location: Alton Community Rehabilitation Hospital, North Hospital @ Home & Mid Community Therapy Services

Hours: Full Time (Part Time Considered)

Contract: Permanent

Join Our Team & Make a Difference Every Day

We are looking for an enthusiastic, motivated, & forward-thinking Band 6 Occupational Therapists to join our dynamic rotational service across our Community Rehabilitation Hospital, Community Therapy Team, & Hospital at Home Service.

This is an exciting opportunity for an Occupational Therapist wishing to develop specialist skills across a range of settings while working within a supportive & innovative multidisciplinary team (MDT).

You will play a key role in supporting patients to maximise independence, prevent unnecessary hospital admissions, & facilitate safe discharge & rehabilitation within their own homes & local communities.

Our Vision

Our teams are committed to delivering high-quality rehabilitation & integrated care that enables people to remain independent, recover closer to home, & avoid unnecessary hospital admissions. We work together to provide compassionate, person-centred care that supports patients to achieve their goals & live well in their communities.

If you are passionate about rehabilitation, integrated working, & supporting patients to thrive at home, we would love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

You will work across our Community Rehabilitation Hospital, Community Therapy Team & Hospital at Home Service, providing assessment, treatment & rehabilitation for patients following illness, injury or deconditioning

Working within a multidisciplinary team of physiotherapists, nurses, rehabilitation assistants, medical staff & social care colleagues, you will help patients maximise independence, recovery & safe discharge

You will assess & treat patients in their own homes, recommend equipment, adaptations & interventions, support admission avoidance, early supported discharge & rehabilitation closer to home, & contribute to integrated care planning, risk assessment & recovery for patients who may otherwise require inpatient care

Main Duties

Manage complex caseloads across community & rehab settings.

Undertake holistic assessments & treatment planning.

Work with multidisciplinary teams to achieve patient-centred outcomes.

Support hospital avoidance & timely discharge planning

Provide supervision for junior staff, assistants & students

Participate in service development, quality improvement & clinical governance

Contribute to integrated health & social care pathways

Why Join Us

Supportive MDT

Varied rotational opportunities

Flexible working where service needs allow

Great opportunity to develop skills across a range of community rehabilitation services

About us

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.

Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.

We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.

Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence

Job responsibilities

Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.

We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Appropriate professional qualification (Occupational Therapist) with full HCPC registration
• Able to demonstrate a good command of the English Language both written and verbal
• Computer Literate in both data entry and communicating via IT - emails and report writing
• Further education training eg: external courses/masters degree or equivalent experience gained by undertaking on-going personal development and training.

Experience

• Experience, underpinned by knowledge of working with and understanding the complex needs of patients in a primary care/community setting.
• Have a broad range of clinical skills, including assessment and treatments of a variety of conditions including neuro, orthopaedic, MSK and elderly.
• Involved in the implementation and management of change.
• Experience of working with long-term conditions and frailty.
• Demonstrates organisational skills: including the ability to make decisions and to prioritise.
• Ability to understand and interpret research findings/evidence-based care and apply to practice.
• Participation and comprehension of clinical and professional supervision.
• Experience of initiating or participating in quality improvement project relating to clinical practice
• Experience working within Hospital at home or Urgent Community Response Services
• Experience in admission avoidance pathways

Additional Criteria

• Knowledge of current clinical and professional issues relevant to the field of occupational therapy.
• Evidence of ability to perform multidisciplinary tasks and work across multi disciplinary boundaries.
• Experienced decision making to inform clinical reasoning approaches when managing complex situations, synthesising information from multiple sources to make appropriate, evidence-based judgements and/or diagnoses.
• Leadership, and communication skills, including the ability to prioritise competing tasks in a highly complex and dynamic environment.
• Ability to develop positive relationship with a range of internal and external stakeholders.
• Confidence in the application and analysis of data and audit processes to provide effective clinical governance.
• Demonstrate the required behaviour in keeping with the Trust values.
• Organisational and self management skills including those relating to own workload and those of others in an unpredictable environment.
• Good communication skills including to communicate complex, sensitive or confidential information in an appropriate manner; to liaise effectively; to understand and disseminate multifaceted information.
• Evidence of the ability to deliver learning sessions (formal or informal) to groups of professionals
• To hold a current UK driving licence with business insurance cover.
• See JD

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust