RRIC Community Practitioner - Occupational Therapist
Band 6
Main area Rapid Response, Urgent Care Response, Community Physiotherapy, Intermediate Care, Prevention of Admission Grade Band 6 Contract Permanent Hours
- Part time
- Job share
- Flexible working
30 hours per week (service cover 8-8pm inclusive weekends)
Job ref 434-CR7871974-D
Site Buckingham Community Hospital Town Buckingham
Salary £39,959 - £48,117 per annum pro rata
Salary period Yearly Closing 29/06/2026 23:59
Job overview
- Your mission: To provide expert interventions and rehabilitation as part of a dynamic, tight-knit team that reacts quickly when people are in crisis.
- Your aim: To help patients stay in their own home, empowering recovery and preventing unnecessary hospitalisation. You will also support early discharge from hospital and patients at the end of life.
- Your role: Add your expertise to our multi-disciplinary community team working with Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Nurses, Specialist Paramedics, Paramedics, Pharmacists, Community Healthcare Assistant Practitioners or Healthcare Assistants.
- Who are we? We are part of Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust, based in 7 locations across the county, including a North and a South Urgent Community Response Squad.
- Who are you? If you are committed to excellence, motivated by developing your clinical skills, driven by being at the cutting edge of healthcare delivery and thrive as part of a team.
Main duties of the job
- Providing triage, comprehensive specialist assessment, review and evaluation of the needs of patients and carers using your OT skills and experience.
- Being responsible for planning programmes of care to promote health gain and maximise independence, actively case managing patients through their journeys.
- Allocating appropriate workloads to members of the Rapid Response & Intermediate Care (RRIC) team.
- Working with a range of professionals in order to ensure care is appropriate and delivered in a timely manner.
- Demonstrating professional skills and competence in leadership, care planning / coordination, and care and treatment delivery.
- Supporting the development of clinical pathway.
Benefits
- Learning and development opportunities to support your career progression.
- Flexible and agile working opportunities, alongside NHS benefits of generous annual leave entitlement, pension and access to NHS discount schemes.
- Health and wellbeing services to promote a healthy, happy workforce.
Person Specification
Special Circumstances
- Valid and current UK driving licence and car to travel to locations throughout Buckinghamshire.
Education, Qualifications & Training
- Registered Allied Healthcare Professional with HCPC – Occupational Therapist.
- Degree/Diploma in Occupational Therapy.
- Recent Continuous Professional Development.
- Relevant postgraduate clinical training e.g., Advanced History Taking & Assessment, Long Term Conditions, Respiratory Disease, Cardiac Disease, Trauma, Orthopaedics & End of Life.
Experience
- Demonstrated experience post or pre-registration placements in relevant clinical areas for therapists: Care of Elderly, Orthopaedics, Neurology, Respiratory, Palliative Care, Long term conditions.
- In-depth experience working within multi-agency/multi-disciplinary team.
- Minimum 2 years of NHS community/in-patient setting post registration.
- Experience of electronic clinical systems.
- Experience participating in research or audit projects.
- Experience of day-to-day staff management e.g., case allocation to Health Care Assistants.
- Experience of working with single assessment process.
Skills, Abilities & Knowledge
- Demonstrate profession-specific clinical assessment, planning, delivery and evaluation skills.
- Knowledge of legal requirements for working with vulnerable adults and those who lack capacity.
- Ability to manage complex cases.
- Ability to develop and maintain partnership working.
- Knowledge of NHS and social care modernisation agenda.
- IT skills.
- Report writing skills.
- Teaching patients, carers and colleagues.
PPE requirements: Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust requires all colleagues to wear appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) in accordance with infection prevention and control procedures.
COVID-19 and Flu vaccinations: remain the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and, of course, our patients. We encourage staff to be vaccinated when recommended.
Employer certification / accreditation badges: You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
