Occupational Therapist – Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust
River Neighbourhood Team is a friendly, supportive, and hardworking team who are looking for enthusiastic individuals to join us. The team operates from 7:30am to 6:30pm, Monday to Sunday including bank holidays. The closing date is 29 March 2026. Flexible working opportunities such as compressed hours are available.
We are looking to recruit an occupational therapist on a full-time basis of 37.5 hours per week, who is innovative and keen to join the team in supporting us to deliver high quality care, and to continue our development of integrated care in the community. The role is varied and rewarding.
We are looking for a passionate OT who is excited by change and are keen to help shape a new way of delivering care in the community. We are a team of healthcare professionals who are focused on compassionate care. We work closely with our GPs and work hard at developing relationships with other primary care services, drawing on the skills of our MDT colleagues to manage complex patients and ensure our services are responsive and patient-centred.
Main duties of the job
* The ability to work flexibly on a rota basis
* An enthusiastic, motivated, and innovative thinker to become part of a primary care facing community
* The ability to work autonomously and manage your own caseload and work within a multi-disciplinary team
* The ability to problem-solve and manage time effectively
* The ability to communicate effectively with others at all levels
* Experience of working in a fast paced and varied environment
* The ability to travel to deliver care services
Your typical working day will include home visits for adults over 18 years needing a range of nursing interventions. These include caring for people reaching the end of their life, managing their pain relief and other symptoms in a sensitive and compassionate manner, all types of wound care—post operative wounds, leg ulcers, pressure ulcers and complex dressing regimes. You will become expert in tissue viability. Other skills will include IV therapy and other injectable drug administration and holistic assessment of a person’s needs, taking into account their environment and social circumstances.
Back at your base, you will be involved in team meetings, goal/care planning and evaluation and handover meetings. You will support pre-registration students in a supervisor and/or assessor capacity. You will also be required to support band 4s and HCAs. Your input is a valuable part of the team’s work.
About us
At Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust, we are working together to deliver outstanding care. We run community hospitals and community health services across Worcestershire and provide mental health and learning disability services across both Herefordshire and Worcestershire.
Our people (all 4500+ of them) provide services for people of all ages, experiencing both physical and/or mental health conditions from over 100 sites.
We will support you to thrive; offer flexible working options for a great work-life balance, help you fulfil your ambitions, and empower you to make positive changes within your team or service. We value diversity and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, cultures, and ethnicities.
What we offer;
* 27 days leave plus bank holidays, increasing up to 33 days with long service
* Generous NHS pension and enhanced pay when you work unsocial hours
* Flexible and agile working opportunities
* Great maternity, paternity, and adoption support
* Wide range of supportive staff networks
* Health and wellbeing opportunities
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Job responsibilities
* The post holder will:
* Behave consistently with the values and beliefs of the organisation and promote these on day-to-day basis.
* Act as a role model to colleagues, always seeking to maintain the highest standards of professionalism.
* Use their initiative and take responsibility for themselves and the quality of their work and the service they provide to patients.
* Work as an autonomous practitioner within the integrated team providing rapid and planned assessment and treatment interventions to patients in their own homes or other community settings to enable patients to maximise their independence, health and wellbeing and remain in their own homes for as long as possible. This will be achieved through a combination of hands-on clinical skills and knowledge to treat, educate and support patients on a designated caseload and by working with patients and their carers to assess, plan and implement appropriate care.
* Take responsibility for the caseload in the absence of the Senior Occupational Therapist when required.
* For full details of the duties and criteria for the role please refer to the job description and person specification attached.
Person Specification
Skills & Abilities
* Ability to challenge poor behaviour.
* A positive attitude and able to act on feedback; ability to praise and be supportive to others.
* Able to communicate effectively in English in both verbal and written formats.
* IT skills and competent in using a computer.
* Ability to demonstrate sound clinical knowledge.
* Ability to reflect and critically appraise own performance.
* Ability to work alone with individuals and groups.
* Ability to demonstrate sound assessment/discharge skills with individual cases.
Additional Criteria
* Self-motivated and able to motivate others
* Team player
* Able to cope under pressure
* Compassion and empathy skills
* Able to meet the travel requirements of the role
* Commitment to client-centred, non-discriminatory practice; Commitment to lifelong learning.
* Willingness to work flexibly.
* Good personal organisation skills.
* Willingness to undertake further training
Experience
* Application of the Occupational Therapy process
* Use of functional assessment and activity analysis
* Equipment and adaptations experience as a student or band 5 therapist
* Some experience of working in a related health or social care environment
Qualifications
* Diploma/degree in Occupational Therapy
* Health Professionals Council registration
* I understand that I will be asked to provide original certificates to verify my qualifications at point of offer.
* Associate member of the College of Occupational Therapists
Knowledge
* Some knowledge of current best practice in Community Occupational Therapy.
* Understanding of professional ethics and their application in practice.
* Understanding of team dynamics; Basic knowledge of NHS health legislation and current practice and risk assessment and management.
* Basic knowledge of the principles of clinical governance; Health, safety and risk Awareness.
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.
Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust
£31,049 to £37,796 a year Pay award pending
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