# Community Occupational Therapist - Older Peoples Service > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/community-occupational-therapist-older-peoples-service/11bfd2ac-22c1-4585-863c-acddb89f670e - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/community-occupational-therapist-older-peoples-service/11bfd2ac-22c1-4585-863c-acddb89f670e.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** Derby - **Region:** Midlands - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Occupational Therapist - **Grade:** Band 6 - **Salary:** £39,959 - £48,117 per annum, pro rata - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Part time - 22.5 hours per week (3 days per week with some flexibility but Fridays will be required. Working hours are 9-5.) - **Closing date:** 2026-06-14T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-06-01T12:31:32.531Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Derbyshire/Ashbourne/Derbyshire_Healthcare_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Older_Peoples_community_Services/Older_Peoples_community_Services-v7816598 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/7816598?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.derbyshirehealthcareft.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview Are you looking for a change of direction?  More experience in community care?  Passionate about supporting older people? If so, we would really like to hear from you! We are looking for an experienced, enthusiastic and motivated Occupational Therapist with an interest in working with older people. The role offers the opportunity to work in a holistic way to support older people who are experiencing challenges with their mental health. This role is based within a well-established, multi-disciplinary team in South Dales area. The Occupational Therapist is an essential member of the team. The role will involve managing Occupational Therapy referrals into the team, assessing the occupational needs of older adults with mental health conditions who live within their local community, co-designing and implementing person – centred occupation based interventions to support them to live their best life. This will include working with a variety of partners across the local community to ensure that we provide the right service at the right time by the right person. You will receive regular clinical and professional supervision from one of the older adult community Occupational Therapy leads and support from the wider OT workforce and leadership team. There are many opportunities for participating in Occupational Therapy specific Continuing Professional Development activities within the trust and older peoples division. ### Main duties of the job As an Occupational Therapist in the team, you will support patients who would benefit from occupational therapy assessment and intervention. This will include identifying those people who are both newly referred and already supported within the team who may benefit from Occupational Therapy assessment and intervention. You will play a key role in delivering occupation based holistic, person-centred assessments and therapeutic interventions. You will embrace the delivery of best practice guidelines for Mental Health and Occupational Therapy. You will need to be a dynamic clinician with good interpersonal skills to enable engagement of service users and their families or carers. You will be able to make complex decisions, formulate detailed assessments and person-centred support plans. Working as a Duty Worker is part of this role. You will offer and support Occupational Therapy student placements. You will offer supervision to junior staff including Occupational Therapists. Participation in professional development activities is encouraged. Profession and older adult specific learning, supervision, wider support and training is provided. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Please view the Job Description and Person Specification.  To apply, please click ON APPLY FOR THIS JOB - this link will take you to the TRAC Recruitment Site, you will need to register if you do not already have an account. ## Job Details Are you looking for a change of direction? More experience in community care? Passionate about supporting older people? If so, we would really like to hear from you! We are looking for an experienced, enthusiastic and motivated Occupational Therapist with an interest in working with older people. The role offers the opportunity to work in a holistic way to support older people who are experiencing challenges with their mental health. This role is based within a well-established, multi-disciplinary team in South Dales area. The Occupational Therapist is an essential member of the team. The role will involve managing Occupational Therapy referrals into the team, assessing the occupational needs of older adults with mental health conditions who live within their local community, co-designing and implementing person – centred occupation based interventions to support them to live their best life. This will include working with a variety of partners across the local community to ensure that we provide the right service at the right time by the right person. You will receive regular clinical and professional supervision from one of the older adult community Occupational Therapy leads and support from the wider OT workforce and leadership team. There are many opportunities for participating in Occupational Therapy specific Continuing Professional Development activities within the trust and older peoples division. ## Job Description As an Occupational Therapist in the team, you will support patients who would benefit from occupational therapy assessment and intervention. This will include identifying those people who are both newly referred and already supported within the team who may benefit from Occupational Therapy assessment and intervention. You will play a key role in delivering occupation based holistic, person-centred assessments and therapeutic interventions. You will embrace the delivery of best practice guidelines for Mental Health and Occupational Therapy. You will need to be a dynamic clinician with good interpersonal skills to enable engagement of service users and their families or carers. You will be able to make complex decisions, formulate detailed assessments and person-centred support plans. Working as a Duty Worker is part of this role. You will offer and support Occupational Therapy student placements. You will offer supervision to junior staff including Occupational Therapists. Participation in professional development activities is encouraged. Profession and older adult specific learning, supervision, wider support and training is provided. ## Responsibilities Please view the Job Description and Person Specification. To apply, please click ON APPLY FOR THIS JOB - this link will take you to the TRAC Recruitment Site, you will need to register if you do not already have an account. ## Person Specification ### Other **Essential** - Ability to meet the travel requirements of the post/access to vehicle / drive due to geographical area. - Has own transport - Good time keeping - Good IT skills - Good Communication skills - Good care planning skills - Good risk assessments skills - Knowledge of OT assessments/ tools within Mental Health ### Experience **Essential** - Registered Occupational Therapist - Post-graduate training relevant to specialist area **Desirable** - Membership of OT professional body and / or special interest group ### Qualifications **Essential** - Qualified Occupational Therapist - Current registration with the relevant professional body, eg NMC, HCPC, Social Work England **Desirable** - Student Mentorship qualification or willing to undertake this ## Documents - [inclusivity at dhcft (pdf, 1.2mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1986) - [383-opc-4828-24-b jd & ps (pdf, 424.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10085704) - [personal accountability charter (pdf, 8.1mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1978) - [guidance notes for completing the application form (pdf, 138.1kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=971) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.