Job summary
- Main area
- Occupational Therapy
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- 12 months (Fixed Term)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 151-NM290
- Employer
- Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Fleet Hospital
- Town
- Fleet
- Salary
- £41,957 - £50,387 per annum including HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 29/04/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Community Occupational Therapist (Rapid Response)
Band 6
Job overview
Are you an experienced Occupational Therapist looking for a dynamic role where you can make an immediate impact? Join our Enhanced Recovery and Support at Home (ERS) service and help prevent hospital admissions while supporting safe, timely discharges back into the community.
ERS provides a rapid response (within 1–2 days) to patients either at risk of admission or returning home from hospital. This is an exciting opportunity to work at pace, delivering high-quality, patient-centred rehabilitation in people’s homes on a 12 month fixed term basis.
As a Senior Community Occupational Therapist, you will deliver functional rehabilitation and specialist assessment to a diverse caseload. You will work as part of a supportive multidisciplinary team (MDT), including Nurses, Physiotherapists, Associate Practitioners, and a large team of Rehabilitation Support Workers.
Following a recent skill mix review, our service has expanded its non-registered workforce, enabling greater delegation and allowing our Occupational Therapists to focus on complex assessments, clinical reasoning, and delivering specialist interventions.
We are a seven-day service so you will be rostered occasional weekends. We also operate 8am-9pm, although usually our OT shifts are either 8am-4pm or 10am-6pm.
It is essential you have a vehicle you can use for work purposes as we cover a large geographical area: all travel time and expense are paid in this role.
Main duties of the job
- Autonomously manage a varied caseload of complex patients, with a primary focus on those who are acutely unwell who need support on discharge from hospital or therapeutic input to prevent admission, as well as patients with postural and positioning, pressure care and complex moving and handling need.
- Devise rehab treatment programmes for patients and to delegate as appropriate.
- Provide line management and supervision to junior members of the team, including students.
- To actively participate in and lead on projects and service development.
- Case management, 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.
- Inter-disciplinary working within the service, providing an effective, high quality day to day service provision.
- To work with senior staff to develop a comprehensive service in partnership with Integrated Care Teams and all relevant stakeholder.
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
- To provide holistic OT assessment, goal setting, individualised treatment programmes, care planning and delivery.
- Regular review and discharge of patients.
- To manage a varied caseload, seeking support from senior staff where necessary to ensure the provision of a timely, clinically effective service based on evidence based practice.
- To provide services to support discharge of patients from acute hospital and to provide an admission avoidance service for patients in crisis within community settings.
- To undertake in-reach to acute and community settings.
- To be actively involved in, and lead on, projects towards the development & delivery of the service and to contribute to new developments and initiatives.
- To provide standardised cognitive assessments and treatment programmes as required.
- To provide comprehensive environmental and functional assessments and treatment programmes.
For more information please see the attached job description and person specification.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Degree or equivalent in Occupational Therapy
- HCPC registered OT
Desirable criteria
- Clinical educators training
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience implementing a person-centred rehab programme.
- Demonstrate experience adapting interventions in line with up-to-date knowledge of best clinical practice, national guidelines and legislation.
- Evidence of continued CPD with varied evidence
- Experience & understanding of clinical governance and risk assessment
- Experience partaking/leading on a service improvement project
Desirable criteria
- Managerial/supervisory experience and/or training
- Community experience
Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to assess, plan, and evaluate the rehabilitation needs of complex client groups and progress to effective outcomes using a person-centred approach.
- Ability to manage own workload, determining priorities whilst balancing conflicting dements including that of multi-disciplinary junior staff, assistants & students.
- Understanding & application of effective communication processes, where complex information will need to be delivered to clients and their carers, requiring excellent communication skills
- Knowledge and clinical skills to recognise and assess the acutely unwell, including early identification of deterioration, appropriate escalation & initiation of timely interventions in line with local and national guidelines.
Desirable criteria
- Skills & knowledge of legislation surrounding posture care assessment & intervention
- Skills & knowledge of legislation surrounding pressure care assessment & intervention
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Kayla-ann Cooper
- Job title
- OT Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0300 613 8203
- Additional information
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