Job summary
- Main area
- Occupational Therapy
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent: Monday to Friday. Monday to Friday 1200-1800 or 1800-0000. Possibility for extra weekly hours (up to 37.5).
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Working over 7 days)
- Job ref
- 151-NM288
- Employer
- Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Fleet Community Hospital
- Town
- Fleet
- Salary
- £33,677 - £40,996 per annum incl HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 29/04/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Rotational Community Occupational Therapist
Band 5
Job overview
Are you:
- Passionate about high quality patient care with a belief that everyday matters,
- Ready for a new challenge based both within an inpatient and community setting
- Driven to promote the value of Occupational Therapy and therefore influence the narrative of OT for future generations,
- Committed to making the NHS having a brighter future?
Do you want to:
- Learn in supportive, empowering and collaborative team,
- Grow your knowledge and experience about the OT process implementing and adapting patient centred care in a community centre,
- Work with a diverse team with wide knowledge and experience?
We can offer:
- The opportunity to enhance your holistic OT skills within a multi-disciplinary team setting.
- Excellent learning opportunities with a high level of support, supervision, and appraisal from senior colleagues.
- Generous training opportunities.
- A great enthusiastic friendly team to work along side.
This is a joint advert with Community rotational post which is currently also out for advert.
Main duties of the job
- To undertake holistic OT assessment, clinical diagnosis and individualised treatment plans for patients on the caseload.
- To contribute to the inter-disciplinary working within the service, providing an effective, high-quality day to day service provision to the active client group.
- Rotations to include:
- Farnham inpatient rehabilitation.
- Enhanced Recovery and Support at Home.
- There is potential for further rotations to be added within future scope.
- Hours include rostering for 7-day working with hours of work varying from 8-4 to 10-6 during the week, which can vary across rotations.
Working for our organisation
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.
Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Take responsibility for managing a varied patient caseload and follow the OT process, seeking advice on the more complex cases to ensure the provision of a timely, clinically effective service based on evidence-based practice.
- To provide holistic OT assessment, goal setting, individualised treatment programmes, care planning and delivery and review within intermediate care; adapting as the patients' needs evolve.
- To provide standardised cognitive assessments and treatment programmes as required.
- To provide environmental and functional assessments, composing & implementing appropriate treatment programmes.
- To educate and provide necessary interventions around management of anxiety and fatigue.
- To identify, assess and manage risk.
- Demonstrate a sound understanding of clinical risk and report untoward incidents both verbally and in writing using the Trust reporting system
- To work closely and jointly at times with Physiotherapy, Nursing colleagues and the rest of the MDT to ensure the patient receives holistic treatment.
For more information please see the attached job description and person specification.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- HCPC Registered OT
- Degree or Equivalent in Occupational Therapy
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of implementing a person-centred intervention programme.
- Experience of referring on to other agencies including the voluntary sector to continue patient’s care (could be a as a student).
- Documented evidence of CPD.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of work as an OT or placement within a community setting.
Skills & Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Effective written and verbal communication skills with internal & external colleagues, patients & family members.
- Ability to manage own workload, determining priorities whilst balancing conflicting demands.
- Be able to appropriately contribute & participate in MDT settings.
- Ability to assess, plan, and evaluate the rehabilitation needs of patients within scope of practice.
- Knowledge & understanding of health legislation in current practice and clinical governance.
- Knowledge of risk assessment through varying elements of clinical practice.
Desirable criteria
- Involvement in project work within the team
Other Requirements
Essential criteria
- Hold a full driving license, have access to a car & have business insurance on this.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Kayla-ann Cooper
- Job title
- OT Team Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 03006138203
- Additional information
You can also contact Sarah Goodall:
07774321592
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