Reablement Occupational Therapist in Bath

Location - St Martins Hospital, Bath

Full time 37.5 Hours

Join our dynamic Reablement Service and play a pivotal role in helping people regain independence, confidence, and control over their daily lives. We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated Occupational Therapist to deliver short-term, goal-focused reablement interventions in individuals' homes and within residential or nursing settings. In this rewarding role, you will use your clinical expertise to assess functional ability, develop personalised rehabilitation plans, and work collaboratively with service users to help them achieve meaningful goals. You'll make a real difference by empowering people to live as independently as possible following illness, injury, or a decline in function.

What you'll do

• Carry out comprehensive functional assessments in homes, residential, or nursing environments
• Develop personalised care and rehabilitation plans in collaboration with service users
• Use occupational therapy interventions to maximise independence in daily living activities
• Encourage individuals to take an active role in their own rehabilitation and informed decision-making
• Support safe hospital discharge and help prevent avoidable hospital admissions
• Monitor progress, review goals, and adapt interventions accordingly
• Work closely with the multidisciplinary team to stabilise care plans and identify long-term support needs

About the Reablement Service

Our Reablement Service provides short-term, intensive support aimed at helping people:

• Avoid unnecessary hospital admissions
• Achieve safe and timely discharge from hospital
• Engage in planned, purposeful rehabilitation
• Stabilise and review ongoing care needs
• Regain maximum functional independence
• Determine appropriate levels of ongoing care or therapy

What we're looking for

• A qualified Occupational Therapist registered with HCPC
• Strong clinical reasoning and assessment skills
• Experience in community, rehabilitation, or reablement settings (desirable but not essential)
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• A collaborative, person-centred approach to practice
• Ability to work independently and manage a varied caseload

This is a fantastic opportunity to be part of a forward-thinking team where your skills and ideas are valued. As the service evolves, your role may develop to meet changing needs—any changes will be discussed with you and your line manager.

Package Description

As an Occupational Therapist you will be part of our valued team in our Bath Reablement Service, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• £31,049 (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

About the Company

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.

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