Community Occupational Therapist in Chippenham

Are you an HCPC-registered Occupational Therapist looking to develop your career within a supportive community team? This is an excellent opportunity to work with patients in their own homes and outpatient settings, helping them maximise independence, improve wellbeing, and achieve the best possible outcomes through high-quality occupational therapy interventions.

As a Band 5 Community Occupational Therapist, you will work alongside experienced therapists, nurses and multi-professional colleagues, undertaking assessments, care planning and treatment interventions for a diverse caseload. You will be supported by senior clinicians while developing your clinical skills across a wide range of patient groups.

This role offers the chance to make a meaningful difference every day. From supporting hospital avoidance and facilitating timely discharge, to enabling patients to reach their optimum level of independence, your work will have a direct impact on patients, carers and the wider healthcare system.

Package Description

• Band 5 AfC Salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday 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 as 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 the majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission

Main Responsibilities

• Delivering Occupational Therapy Assessment and Treatment: You will be responsible for assessing, interpreting, planning and implementing occupational therapy interventions for patients within community and outpatient settings. Working within professional guidelines and supported by specialist clinicians and team leaders, you will deliver evidence-based care designed to promote independence and wellbeing. You will undertake comprehensive assessments, develop and evaluate care plans, and ensure patients and carers remain at the centre of decision-making.
• Working as Part of a Multi-Professional Team: You will work closely with therapists, nurses, support workers and other healthcare professionals to coordinate care and achieve the best possible outcomes. The role requires effective communication with patients, carers, hospital teams and community services, including adapting communication approaches where hearing, language or other barriers exist.
• Leadership, Development and Professional Practice: As part of your professional development, you will participate in supervision, appraisal and ongoing learning activities. You will support students, new colleagues and non-registered staff through education, mentoring and peer support, while helping to maintain a positive learning environment.
• Quality, Safety and Governance: You will work in line with professional standards, infection prevention requirements, information governance policies and organisational procedures. The role requires a commitment to safeguarding, risk management, patient safety and high standards of clinical care.

Person Specification

• Essential
• Degree or Diploma in Occupational Therapy (Dip COT, BSc, BSc (Hons) or MSc Occupational Therapy)
• HCPC registration as an Occupational Therapist
• Full UK driving licence and access to transport suitable for community working
• Evidence of continuing professional development
• Experience of assessment, care planning and delivering occupational therapy interventions
• Ability to work effectively within a multidisciplinary team
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to work independently, manage a caseload and prioritise workload effectively
• IT literacy and accurate clinical record keeping skills
• Flexible, adaptable and committed to delivering high-quality patient-centred care
• Desirable
• Teaching and assessing experience in clinical practice
• Further qualifications relevant to occupational therapy
• Awareness of recent government policy affecting future clinical practice
• Evidence of an innovative and flexible approach to care delivery
• Community-based clinical experience

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.