About this role
Job summary Band 6 Senior Occupational Therapist (Inpatient Rehab).Full time Hours - South WiltshireAre 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. Please contact us if you would like to visit and tour the centre prior to interview - [email protected] RoleAs a Senior Occupational Therapist (Band 6), you will: Work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team, including physiotherapists, assistant practitione
Main duties of the job 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. As a Senior Occupational Therapist, you'll work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team, support the Clinical Lead, take an active role in supervision, appraisals, and service improvement, ensuring continuous development for both yourself and your colleagues. Career Development & Growth Progress your career with support from a highly skilled team. 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. If you're ready to take on this meaningful and fulfilling role, we'd love to hear from you.
About us 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. Were a Disability Confident Committed company.
Job description Job responsibilities Package Description:
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.
Please contact us if you would like to visit and tour the centre prior to interview - [email protected]
Your Role
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.If you're ready to take on this meaningful and fulfilling role, we'd love to hear from you!
To discuss the vacancy further or to arrange an informal visit please call Clinical Lead Peter Busby on 07917307856 or Team Lead Sarah Furia on 07788396515.
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 TeamsThe 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 lifes 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 youre 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 CommissionAbout 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. Were a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesnt happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and well need to close it earlier than the date weve shown here. If youre keen to join our team, wed love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
As youd 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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Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
BSc/BSc (Hons) and or equivalent qualification in Occupational Therapy. Registered with HCPC. Post registration qualification in relevant area of clinical practice. Evidence of innovative and flexible approach to care and its organisation. Demonstrate professional development and experience. Teaching and Assessing in Clinical practice qualification.
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details Employer name HCRG Care Group
Address HCRG Care Group
Five Rivers Leisure Centre
SP1 3NR
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.hcrgcaregroup.com/ (Opens in a new tab)