Senior Community Occupational Therapist

North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust; Maryport; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 48,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

27-day holiday scheme rising to 33

NHS Discounts

Salary Sacrifice schemes including le​

Vivup access

Job summary

North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust in Maryport, Cumbria, is seeking a Senior Community Occupational Therapist (Band 6) on a full-time permanent basis to join the Maryport/Cockermouth ICC.

You will work within the Community Rehabilitation Team, supporting hospital discharge, preventing admissions, and delivering home and community inpatient care, with 37.5 hours per week, on a rota including weekends. Salary £39,959 - £48,117 per annum.

Qualifications

• Assess adults/older adults using a range of standardised assessments and clinical observation skills.
• Provide advice in formulation or progression of a medical diagnosis and support family through the process.
• Formulate specialist treatment plans with advanced clinical reasoning and set goals.
• Deliver specialist OT treatment interventions in home and community hospital settings.

Responsibilities

• Undertake assessment and clinical diagnosis across physical, sensory, cognitive, emotional, psychological and social domains.
• Provide expert OT input to support discharge planning and anticipatory care.
• Deliver interventions to enable patients to achieve occupational goals in varied environments.
• Teach and advise families and carers to promote consistent, coordinated care.

Job description

Would you like to join a centre of excellence in rural and remote healthcare?

Main area Senior Community Occupational Therapist Grade NHS AfC: Band 6 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (7 day working, weekends on a rota basis, 1 x late shift per week until 8pm ( number to be established)) Job ref 262-A-26-8065919-B

Site Maryport Community Hospital Town Maryport, Cumbria Salary £39,959 - £48,117 Per Annum Salary period Yearly Closing 23/09/2026 23:59

Job overview

Are you looking for a new opportunity in 2026?

We are looking for an innovative and enthusiastic Occupational Therapist to join our supportive Community Rehabilitation Team working across the Maryport & Cockermouth ICC on the fringe of the beautiful Lake District.

You will work as part of our established team which supports hospital discharge, works to prevent hospital admission, offers anticipatory care as well as a community hospital inpatient ward.

This role will support patient's receiving the Home Care Practitioner service using models of occupational therapy you will assist individuals to achieve their occupational goals, sharing your skills and expertise with others. An interest in personalised care handling is required but training can be provided

Cockermouth & Maryport ICC embraces a compassionate culture that embraces upstream thinking, collaboration and staff development

This is a full-time post, with 37.5hours per week, for the right candidate.

Informal visits are welcomed and please call for any further information

Main duties of the job

To undertake assessment, clinical and functional diagnosis of adults/older adults using a range of specialist standardised assessments and clinical observation skills across physical, sensory, cognitive, emotional, psychological and social domains.

To provide advice in the formulation or progress of a medical diagnosis and to support family members through this process guided by specialist theoretical knowledge and enabled by establishing a therapeutic alliance.

Contribute to the MDT’s understanding of the family system and its impact on the patient, the patient’s present circumstances, and the impact of that on the family system.

To formulate agreed specialist individual and/or group treatment plans and goals based on advanced clinical reasoning skills with the adult etc, taking in to account the domains assessed.

To provide specialist occupational therapy treatment interventions in a variety of environments including home and community hospital bed setting

To provide spontaneous and planned specialist advice, teaching and instruction to family members, carers and other relevant professionals in health, to promote understanding of the aims of occupational therapy and to ensure a consistent and coordinated approach across the AHP service.

Interventions regularly include the assessment, evaluation and prescription of specialised equipment for the adults. Standards for offering specialist advice for its safe use and the aims and purpose of the equipment apply as above.

Working for our organisation

At NCIC, we have an ambition to deliver outstanding healthcare services to the population of North Cumbria. The Trust is committed to creating a centre of excellence in providing rural and remote healthcare and provides a wide range of community and acute services throughout our county.

Our 5 key principles demonstrate our belief in the delivery of ‘safe, high quality care every time’:

• Being a clinically led organisation
• Quality and safety at the heart of our Trust
• A positive patient experience every time
• A great place to work
• Managing our money well

As an organisation we are serious about supporting a diverse workforce that reflects our local community and are very much focused on being an inclusive and compassionate place to work.

Across the North East and North Cumbria we are working together to deliver our ambition to be the greenest region in England by 2030. All staff are expected to support sustainability.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

JOB DESCRIPTION :

Please see attached job description and person specification for further information regarding the role and the essential and desirable criteria required to be met by applicants.

CERTIFICATE OF SPONSORSHIP:

Please note, due to changes implemented by the Government to the UK immigration policy, individuals who require a Health and Care Visa or a Skilled Worker Visa may no longer be eligible for sponsorship where the UKVI salary threshold is not met or if the occupation is not included in the updated Immigration Salary List (ISL). Applicants must check their eligibility to be employed in any role they are interested in applying for, prior to completing an application for employment. Any applicants who do not meet the eligibility criteria will not be progressed. For further information visit theUK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

If you are applying under the Disability Confident Scheme or Armed Forces Covenant and you meet all the essential criteria for a post, you will be guaranteed an interview.

Relocation assistance may be available for successful applicants moving to the region for certain posts. Please see our Policy for eligiblevacancies.

AHP - Return to Practice Job Advert information.This role may be suitable for individuals Returning to Practice. Please speak to the recruiting manager for more information.

Registered Nurses, Midwives and Allied Health Professionals returning to practice, moving into new roles or changing clinical environments, may access an agreed preceptorship period. Disclosure and Barring Service:

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.

The cost of the DBS must be met by the successful candidate(s) through salary deduction. DBS charges are as follows if applicable to the post:

Standard Check: £21.50 + Administration cost of £6.50 = £28.00 Deducted from salary over a 4 month period or a one-off payment.

Enhanced Check: £49.50 + administration cost of £6.50 = £56.00 Deducted from salary over a 4 month period or a one-off payment.

NCIC can offer successful future employees the following benefits:

27-day holiday scheme rising to 33 after 10 years

NHS Discounts*

Salary Sacrifice schemes including lease cars and Cycle to Work*

Vivup is a free, confidential counselling and information service to assist with personal or work-related problems

*Subject to eligibility

Please ensure that you document evidence of meeting all the essential criteria in the supporting information.

Candidates who have been successfully shortlisted for interview will be