Specialist Community Occupational Therapist

HCRG Care Group; Salisbury; On-site; GBP 36,000 - 48,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

NHS Pension & Benefits

My Reward Hub

Job summary

HCRG Care Group is seeking a Band 6 Senior Occupational Therapist to join an inpatient rehabilitation team in South Wiltshire. The role focuses on delivering specialist OT services to inpatients within a 37.5 hour week, with travel to access and discharge visits as required.

Join an established Intensive Rehabilitation Service Pathway 2 team, supported by a multidisciplinary group, with opportunities for supervision, development, and contribution to service improvement within NHS funded care.

Qualifications

• BSc/BSc (Hons) in Occupational Therapy or equivalent.
• Registered with HCPC and post-registration qualification in relevant area.

Responsibilities

• Provide a specialist Occupational Therapy service for inpatients.
• Work within a multi-professional team.
• Assess, interpret, plan and implement treatment and care for inpatients.
• Promote early discharge wherever possible.

Education

BSc/BSc (Hons) in Occupational Therapy

HCPC registration

Job description

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Specialist Community Occupational Therapist

Job Reference HCRGCG/TP/42452/20913

Number of Positions:

1

Contract Type:

Permanent - Full Time

Weekly contracted hours:

37.5

Closing Date:

01/11/2026

Job Category:

HCRG - Allied Health Professionals

Service type:

HCRG - Community Services P1

Business Unit:

HCRG - BSW - Community Services

Job Introduction

Band 6 Senior Occupational Therapist (Inpatient Rehab).

Full time Hours - South Wiltshire

Are you a passionate Occupational Therapist looking for a rewarding role in an inpatient-centred rehabilitation team? Join our Intensive Rehabilitation Service Pathway 2 Team in South Wiltshire, where you'll make a real difference in the lives of patients recovering from hospital admissions.

This intermediate rehabilitation setting provides individuals with focused support to achieve their recovery goals, enabling them to regain independence and transition home or to a more suitable care setting.

Your Base:

For mileage purposes your base will be Five Rivers Leisure centre. Our Intensive Rehabilitation service is currently hosted within a care home within the Laverstock area. This site and its staff are entirely dedicated to the Pathway 2 service with years of collaboration and development with HCRG. Much of your time will be spent within the Rehabilitation centre but travel for access visits and discharge visits will also be required.

As a Senior Occupational Therapist (Band 6), you will:

Work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team, including physiotherapists, assistant practitioners, rehabilitation support workers, care staff, and social workers. Support the Clinical Lead in guiding and developing the team, including Band 5 therapists, Assistant Practitioners, and Rehabilitation Support Workers. Take an active role in supervision, appraisals, and service improvement, ensuring continuous development for both yourself and your colleagues.

What We Offer:

Career Development & Growth - Progress your career with support from a highly skilled team. Pay Progression under Agenda for Change, recognising your dedication and expertise. NHS Pension & Benefits - Enjoy the security and perks of working within the NHS. Integrated, Patient-Centred Care - Be part of a team that truly prioritises patient wellbeing.

This is an exciting time to join us as we work in collaboration with local services to enhance rehabilitation in a seamless and integrated way.

Main Responsibility:

• To provide a specialist Occupational Therapy service for inpatients
• To work within a multi-professional team
• Assess, interpret, plan and implement treatment and care to inpatients
• Wherever possible to reduce in-patient length of stay by promoting and supporting early discharge.
• Apply a patient centred approach
• To provide advice and support to Teams

The Ideal Candidate:

• BSc/BSc (Hons) and or equivalent qualification in Occupational Therapy
• Registered with HCPC
• Post registration qualification in relevant area of clinical practice
• Delivering patient focused care
• Case management
• Excellent inter-professional communication
• Teaching (both professionals, students and patient/carers) and holds recognised Teaching and Assessing in Clinical practice qualification
• Evidence of innovative and flexible approach to care and its organisation
• Demonstrate professional development and experience
• Multi-disciplinary working across a range of agencies/professional groups
• Providing evidence-based practice through clinical audit
• Assessment and care planning with a particular focus on complex discharge planning
• Working in partnership with other agencies
• Evidence of on-going personal development
• Experience within a wide range of patient/client care groups
• Experience of gathering and interpreting information to shape service development
• Undertake specific therapy skills
• Typing/data inputting skills - to use computerised system for accessing patient information
• Physical skills to manually handle patients and appropriate lifting aids
• Dealing with bad news - ability to sensitively inform service users on emotional issues.
• Able to support and facilitate staff in dealing with these situations
• Required to challenge and lead practice
• Ability to manually handle patients and equipment.

Package Description

As a Community Occupational Therapistyou will be part of our valued team in our BSW Service, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• Band 6 AfC Salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
• Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing - from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
• An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care - backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
• The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission

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 .

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.

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