Occupational Therapist - Band 5 in Swindon

We are seeking a highly motivated and innovative Occupational Therapist to join the Therapy Team in Swindon Intermediate Care Centre. This post involves rotating between the Stroke and General Rehabilitation ward and General Rehabilitation Ward within Swindon Intermediate Care Centre (SWICC). This is an exciting opportunity to use your stroke rehabilitation skills, including cognitive rehab, upper limb and functional rehabilitation. You will be working within the stroke and fractured NOF pathway patients but also work with other general rehabilitation patients.

SwICC is a purpose-built 60 bedded inpatient rehabilitation unit on the Great Western Hospital site with access to excellent facilities, including a therapy gym and therapy rehab kitchen. You will be supported by Band 6 and 7 Occupational Therapists and work very closely with the Band 6 and 7 Physiotherapists. Feedback from staff is that the whole SWICC therapy team are a very supportive team and always willing to support and help each other, and this does sometimes require covering across services when required. We are keen to ensure the continued development of our staff and as such there are both internal and external opportunities for training and development.

As an Occupational Therapist you will be part of our valued team in our Specialist Neurology and Stroke Services, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• £31,049 - £37,796 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 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

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.

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.