Senior Occupational Therapist or Physiotherapist

Job summary

We have an exciting opportunity for a Band 6 Therapist to join our service, delivering high-quality, person-centred care to patients in their own homes and community settings.

As a Band 6 Therapist, you will work as part of a multidisciplinary team to provide comprehensive rehabilitation and therapy interventions, supporting individuals to achieve their goals and maintain independence. This includes working alongside other therapy colleagues to deliver coordinated, high-quality rehabilitation. You will also contribute to supporting discharge from hospital by providing timely, intensive rehabilitation in patients' own homes where appropriate.

You will manage a varied caseload, including complex cases, and contribute to service development and quality improvement initiatives.

You'll be joining a friendly, supportive team known for its collaborative spirit and commitment to patient-centred care. We pride ourselves on working closely together, sharing ideas, and celebrating successes. Our teams are embedded within their local communities, making a real difference to the lives of local people.

You will work collaboratively with nursing, frailty, and Primary Care colleagues to support complex care needs, prevent hospital admissions, and facilitate timely discharges.

There are several posts available across the New Forest and Eastleigh localities. If you are ready for a new challenge and want to make a difference to people's lives, we would love to hear from you.

Main duties, tasks & skills required

To provide specialist therapy skills within the Community Care Team.
To assess and treat own caseload, which may include complex presentations and to maintain own records as an autonomous practitioner.
To assist senior staff in the education and supervision of junior colleagues, assistants and students.
To assist senior staff in daily management of the team and provision of therapy service, deputising for the team leader in their absence.
To assist senior staff in development and maintenance of an efficient and effective therapy service.
To contribute to the inter-disciplinary working within the Community therapy team and Locality by teaching, learning & practicing inter-disciplinary skills & techniques as defined by an agreed competency framework or training scheme. 

About us

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.

Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.

We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.

Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence

Job description

Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.

We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential

UK Health Professions Council registered Physiotherapist or Occupational Therapist
Evidence of community experience and working as part of a multidisciplinary team. 

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.

UK Professional Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

For help with your application, contact: 

Hannah Godfrey 

hannah.godfrey9@nhs.net 

07867341105