Senior Community Occupational Therapist in Weston-super-Mare

We are looking for an enthusiastic and highly motivated Senior Occupational Therapist to join our Integrated Network Teams (INT) in Weston and Worle. If you are passionate about delivering high-quality, person-centred community therapy, improving quality of life, preventing unnecessary hospital admissions, and supporting rehabilitation in the home, we would love to hear from you.

Our Integrated Network Teams are innovative, forward-thinking services providing rehabilitation and support directly in people’s homes and communities. You’ll play a key role in maximising independence, supporting safe hospital discharge, preventing admission, and enabling long‑term self‑management so people can live well in their own homes. In return, we are fully committed to your development. You will have the opportunity to build advanced community‑based clinical skills, strengthen your multidisciplinary working, and develop your leadership, supervision, and service development capabilities. You will be part of a friendly, supportive and dynamic multidisciplinary team, working alongside Physiotherapists, Nurses, Community Specialist Practitioners, Support Workers and Administrators. We offer a flexible, responsive service operating 7 days a week with extended hours, supporting a healthy work-life balance while meeting the needs of our community.

Main duties of the job:

• Initial holistic assessment, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care for patients who are acutely and chronically unwell; often with complex needs.
• Use clinical reasoning skills to assess, plan, implement and evaluate patient‑centred intervention programmes using an evidence-based practice approach, promoting high quality and harm free care.
• Responsible for proactive service and own caseload management.
• Responsible for allocation of work and efficient service/team coordination.
• Develop and maintain strong, communicative working relationships to prevent avoidable admissions and facilitate timely discharges.
• Collaborate and negotiate with service users, carers and family in identifying achievable goals as part of the overall care plan to maximise quality of life and independence.
• Facilitate appropriate referrals to other services based on your assessment.
• Assess and arrange the provision of equipment within scope of practice; reporting any issues.
• Take responsibility for the development of other members of the INT including peers, junior staff, and students.
• Maintain accurate, informative and legal records.
• Actively participate in training; this may involve assisting in the delivery.
• Identify risks and act accordingly to minimise risk to self, colleagues and service users.

Qualifications:

• BSc or equivalent in Occupational Therapy and HCPC registration.
• Evidence of continuing professional development and commitment to lifelong learning.
• Willingness to undertake additional study and qualifications relevant to the role.

Skills, knowledge and experience:

• Explain and evidence how you have effectively led a team with senior support when required.
• Explain and evidence how you've made clinically reasoned judgements when working with a variety of conditions.
• Explain and give evidence of supervising staff and students of your own profession.
• Effective time management and caseload management.
• Explain and evidence how you're able to work autonomously, with the ability to know when to seek appropriate advice / guidance from senior staff.
• Recent relevant experience within the community setting.
• Experience of supervising staff and students from other professions.
• Working with a range of professionals in health or social care.

Application Reason:

Please tell us why you have chosen to apply for this role with Sirona care & health.

You must have appropriate UK professional registration. This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.