Reablement Occupational Therapist - Band 5

HCRG Care Group; Bath; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A community health services provider in England is seeking a Reablement Occupational Therapist - Band 5 to support individuals in regaining independence and managing their rehabilitation. You'll be responsible for assessing functional abilities and developing personalized care plans in various settings. Ideal candidates are registered occupational therapists with strong clinical reasoning and interpersonal skills. This rewarding role provides an opportunity to empower individuals following illness or injury and improve their quality of life.

Qualifications

• Registered occupational therapist dedicated to improving patient independence.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills with a collaborative approach.
• Ability to assess and develop personalized rehabilitation plans.

Responsibilities

• Carry out comprehensive functional assessments in different environments.
• Develop personalized care and rehabilitation plans in collaboration with users.
• Use interventions to maximize independence in daily activities.
• Encourage active participation in rehabilitation and decision-making.

Skills

Clinical reasoning

Assessment skills

Interpersonal skills

Communication skills

Person-centred approach

Ability to work independently

Education

Qualified Occupational Therapist registered with HCPC

Job description

Reablement Occupational Therapist - Band 5

Join our dynamic Reablement Service and play a pivotal role in helping people regain independence, confidence, and control over their daily lives. We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated Occupational Therapist to deliver short‑term, goal‑focused reablement interventions in individuals homes and within residential or nursing settings.

In this rewarding role, you will use your clinical expertise to assess functional ability, develop personalised rehabilitation plans, and work collaboratively with service users to help them achieve meaningful goals. You'll make a real difference by empowering people to live as independently as possible following illness, injury, or a decline in function.

What you’ll do

• Carry out comprehensive functional assessments in homes, residential, or nursing environments
• Develop personalised care and rehabilitation plans in collaboration with service users
• Use occupational therapy interventions to maximise independence in daily living activities
• Encourage individuals to take an active role in their own rehabilitation and informed decision‑making
• Support safe hospital discharge and help prevent avoidable hospital admissions
• Monitor progress, review goals, and adapt interventions accordingly
• Work closely with the multidisciplinary team to stabilise care plans and identify long‑term support needs

Main duties of the job

About the Reablement Service

Our Reablement Service provides short‑term, intensive support aimed at helping people:

• Avoid unnecessary hospital admissions
• Achieve safe and timely discharge from hospital
• Engage in planned, purposeful rehabilitation
• Stabilise and review ongoing care needs
• Determine appropriate levels of ongoing care or therapy

What we’re looking for

• A qualified Occupational Therapist registered with HCPC
• Strong clinical reasoning and assessment skills
• Experience in community, rehabilitation, or reablement settings (desirable but not essential)
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• A collaborative, person‑centred approach to practice
• Ability to work independently and manage a varied caseload

About us

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. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

To find out more about HCRG Care Group, please visit https://www.hcrgcaregroup.com/about-us-2

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.