Occupational Therapist

We are seeking a Band 6 Occupational Therapist to join our Community Neuro and Stroke Service on a part-time basis (18.75 hours per week).

In this role, you will be responsible for delivering specialist person-centred assessments, rehabilitation, and management for individuals with long-term neurological conditions. You will play a key role in promoting health and preventing secondary complications, visiting service users in their homes or within the community. Collaborating closely with our multidisciplinary team, family members, carers, and other services, you will work to achieve person-centred goals, fostering independence and enhancing overall wellbeing.

The Community Neuro and Stroke Service's Planned Neuro Team offers specialised rehabilitation and therapy support for adults with complex long-term neurological conditions within the community. Our multidisciplinary team, which includes Speech and Language Therapists, Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Specialist Nurses, Rehabilitation Assistants, and a Clinical Neuropsychologist, collaborates closely with health and social care colleagues, as well as voluntary organisations, to deliver person-centred care.

Operating Monday to Friday, from 08:00 to 17:00, we provide planned therapy interventions in service users' homes, places of residence, or within the local community across Bath and North East Somerset. Our team is based at St. Martin's Hospital in Bath.,

• Conduct specialist assessments to create individualised treatment plans.


• Collaborate effectively with the multidisciplinary team.


• Work with service users and carers to achieve shared goals, providing advice, education, training, and assessing for specialised equipment.


• Promote independence by enabling service users and carers to manage their condition.


• Assess and prescribe 24-hour postural management programs, offering specialist support and advice to other services.


• Support and supervise junior team members and students, and assist senior staff in the day-to-day running of the service, including deputising when necessary.
  
  Holds a recognised qualification in Occupational Therapy and is registered with HCPC.


• Demonstrates strong interdisciplinary collaboration, promoting efficient, person-centered care.


• Has experience working effectively within a multidisciplinary team and with health, social care, and voluntary sector partners.


• Possesses expert clinical knowledge and experience in neurological conditions, with a deep understanding of their long-term impact.


• Experienced in community-based work across various settings.


• Capable of managing a caseload effectively, including appropriate delegation to Rehabilitation Assistants.


• This role is community based and therefore you must have a valid UK driving licence and your own transport to enable you to travel to appointments across Bath and North East Somerset.
  
  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.

While it doesn't happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we'll need to close it earlier than the date we've shown here. If you're keen to join our team, we'd love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

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.


• £35,392 - £42,618 with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions.


• Free tea and coffee at your base location


• 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 a majority of our rated services holding "good" or "outstanding" ratings from the Care Quality Commission