Senior Occupational Therapist - Petersfield Inpatient Therapies

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Sheet; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 48,000; Part time

Job summary

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust in Petersfield is seeking a Senior Occupational Therapist to join the Inpatient Therapies team. The post offers an exciting opportunity to deliver person-centred care, supporting people with complex needs to maximise independence, avoid unnecessary hospital admissions, and improve quality of life across inpatient and outreach settings.

This part-time fixed-term role (31 hours per week, 15 months) requires excellent assessment,

Qualifications

• Qualified occupational therapy professional with registration and evidence of degree-level education.
• Strong assessment, clinical reasoning and problem-solving abilities.

Responsibilities

• Provide advanced clinical and professional Occupational Therapy to the Petersfield Therapy Inpatient and Outreach Team.
• Undertake Occupational Therapy assessments and develop individualised treatment programmes.
• Support the case management process by providing expert clinical advice for patients in the community.
• Provide OT skills within Community Inpatient and Outreach Team and with other providers.
• Assess and treat complex factors relating to patient condition and prognosis.
• Contribute to partnership working with Primary and Social care to support Integrated Care.

Skills

Autonomous working

Communication skills

Team collaboration

IT skills (Excel, PowerPoint)

Education

Registered Allied Health Professional

Degree or Diploma level education

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Senior Occupational Therapist - Petersfield Inpatient Therapies

The closing date is 22 November 2026

We are seeking an enthusiastic and motivated Occupational Therapist to join our friendly Therapy Inpatient and Outreach Team at Petersfield Hospital. This is an exciting opportunity for a clinician who is passionate about delivering person-centred care, supporting people with complex needs to maximise independence, avoid unnecessary hospital admissions, and achieve the best possible quality of life.

The successful candidate will have excellent assessment, communication, and problem-solving skills, enjoy working autonomously and as part of a multidisciplinary team, and be committed to providing high-quality care across inpatient and community settings.

Please note this post is part time 31 hours per week and fixed term for 15 months.

Main duties of the job

To provide advanced clinical and professional Occupational Therapy to the Petersfield Therapy Inpatient and Outreach Team based at Petersfield hospital, and to provide support to the Integrated Community Care team leaders in ensuring that the team contributes to the implementation of Southern Health Clinical Governance Strategies

Undertake Occupational Therapy assessments of patients with diverse and complex conditions, providing a clinical diagnosis where appropriate, development, and delivery of individualised treatment programmes

To support the case management process by providing expert clinical advice and therapy to patients with a variety of complex conditions living in the community who are at risk of deteriorating health that may result in declining quality of life or avoidable hospital admission to secondary care

To provide clinical Occupational Therapy skills within the Community Inpatient and Outreach Team, and all other provider organisations

Skilled in assessing and treating a range of complex factors relating to the patient's condition, diagnosis and prognosis

To provide specialist intervention tailored to meet the uniqueness of the individual

To contribute to partnership working with partners in Primary and Social care to support Integrated Care team model which identifies, and case manages those patients needing complex chronic disease management or palliative care supporting the needs of the local community

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

• Registered Allied Health Professional
• Educated to Degree level or Diploma equivalent

Experience

• Complex therapy, care coordination, manual handling and posture management
• Proactively manage complex conditions
• Knowledge of managing cognitive impairment and mental wellbeing
• Supporting selfcare, self management and enabling independence
• Developing programmes of therapy, providing advice concerning treatment of patients
• Professional practice and leadership
• Experience of inter agency and partnership working
• Experience in carrying out clinical audit and risk assessment, outcome measurement
• Proven skills in supervision, and contribution to service development
• Strong IT Skills including excel and power point
• Good Presentation skills and public speaking
• Ability to work autonomously without supervision
• Ability to meet deadlines and work under pressure
• Ability to adapt to the demands of a constantly changing environment
• Responsive and flexible
• Innovative approach to improving patient experience
• Promotes service improvement
• Seeks opportunity to provide medium long term value addresses inefficiencies quickly
• Evaluates and streamlines ways of working
• Proactive, solutions focused attitude
• Focuses self and team to deliver results
• Provides clear goals and objectives
• Promotes cohesion and team working
• Works collaboratively with teams within the Trust and across the Local Health Economy
• Ability to travel across community and PSEH Geography to deliver services affectively
• Experience of practice within community settings.
• Multi disciplinary working
• Specialised treatment programmes
• Adult services and or voluntary sector

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

£39,959 to £48,117 a yearPlease note for part time hours the salary will be pro rata