We are seeking an enthusiastic, highly motivated Senior Occupational Therapist to join our Integrated Network Teams (INTs) in South Gloucestershire.
If you are passionate about delivering high-quality, community therapy and improving quality of life—preventing unnecessary hospital admissions and promoting independence at home we would love to hear from you.
In return, we are committed to supporting ongoing professional development. You will have opportunities to develop specialist community-based skills, strengthen multidisciplinary working, and gain experience in supporting and supervising colleagues, alongside building key leadership capabilities.
Our INTs are an innovative and dynamic service, providing function-based rehabilitation via support worker visits guided by therapists' care plans. These visits focus on activities of daily living within individuals' homes, helping maximise functional potential and maintain independence. Therapists play a vital role in supporting hospital discharges, preventing admissions, and enabling long‑term self‑management—empowering patients to live well at home; working closely with local authority partners to ensure individuals requiring longer‑term rehabilitation or care are referred appropriately.
You will be part of a friendly, supportive multidisciplinary team, working alongside AHPs, Nurses, Specialist Practitioners, Support Workers, and administrative staff. There is frequent, collaborative cross‑disciplinary working between AHPs.
Main duties of the job
Initial holistic assessment, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care for patients who are acutely and chronically unwell; often with complex needs.
Use clinical reasoning skills to assess, plan, implement and evaluate, patient‑centred intervention programmes using an evidence‑based practice approach, promoting high quality and harm free care.
Responsible for proactive service and own caseload management
Responsible for allocation of work and efficient service/team coordination
Develop and maintain strong, communicative working relationships to prevent avoidable admissions and facilitate timely discharges.
Collaborate and negotiate with service users, carers and family in identifying achievable goals as part of the overall care plan to maximise quality of life and independence.
Facilitate appropriate referrals to other services based on your assessment
Assess and arrange the provision of equipment within scope of practice; reporting any issues
Take responsibility for the development of other members of the INT including peers, junior staff, and students
Maintain accurate, informative and legal records
Actively participate in training; this may involve assisting in the delivery
Identify risks and act accordingly to minimise risk to self, colleagues and service users
Actively support junior colleagues within the team on a day to day basis
Proactive engagement in improving service delivery & implementing service changes
About us
We are Sirona care & health — England's largest provider of adult's and children's community services and we'd love for you to join us in Bristol, North Somerset or South Gloucestershire.
Agenda for Change Salary, full NHS benefits, 27+ days' annual leave, and participation in the NHS Pension Scheme.
We welcome and encourage all applicants. We are committed to having a workforce that reflects the communities we support and are proactively seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce.
We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where all belong. We aim to draw upon the widest possible range of views and experiences to meet the changing needs of our colleagues, partners and communities we serve.
Qualifications
* BSc or equivalent in Occupational Therapy and HCPC registration
* Evidence of continuing professional development and commitment to lifelong learning
* Member of the British Association of Occupational Therapists
Skills, knowledge and experience
* Explain and evidence how you have effectively led a team with senior support when required
* Explain and evidence how you've made clinically reasoned judgements when working with a variety of conditions
* Explain and give evidence of supervising staff and students of own profession
* Effective time management and caseload management
* Explain and evidence how you're able to work autonomously, with the ability to know when to seek appropriate advice / guidance from senior staff.
* Recent relevant experience within the community setting
* Experience of supervising staff and students from other professions
* Working with a range of professionals in health or social care
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.
£39,959 to £48,117 a year pro rata, per annum
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time, Part-time
Reference number
083-7930339-WW
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