Specialist Occupational Therapist

As a Specialist Occupational Therapist, you will provide specialist assessment, rehabilitation and reablement interventions for individuals presenting with a wide range of complex physical, medical, surgical and neurological conditions. Working autonomously across community and intermediate care settings, you will support people to maximise their independence and achieve their personal goals following illness, injury or hospital admission.You will undertake comprehensive functional assessments, develop personalised rehabilitation plans and work closely with patients, carers and multidisciplinary colleagues to deliver coordinated, person-centred care.

Your role will include assessment for equipment and adaptations, supporting discharge planning and helping people safely return to, and remain within, their own homes wherever possible.Alongside your clinical responsibilities, you will provide leadership and support across the therapy team, helping to coordinate rehabilitation and reablement provision, contribute to service development and ensure the delivery of high-quality care.

You will work collaboratively with colleagues across health and social care to improve patient outcomes and shape the continued success of this new service. Degree or Diploma in Occupational Therapy Current HCPC registration Significant post-registration Occupational Therapy experience Experience working at Band 6 level or above Experience working within rehabilitation, intermediate care, community services or similar settings Experience managing complex clinical caseloads Strong understanding of rehabilitation, reablement and functional assessment Excellent clinical reasoning and decision-making skills Experience working within multidisciplinary teams Experience supporting, supervising or developing junior colleagues and students Excellent communication, organisation and prioritisation skills Full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle for work purposes, Experience working within Intermediate Care or Reablement services Community Occupational Therapy experience Experience undertaking home visits and environmental assessments Experience recommending equipment and adaptations Experience supporting service improvement initiatives Experience coordinating therapy provision or providing professional leadership Membership of the Royal College of Occupational Therapists Relevant postgraduate qualification or specialist training 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 crimina