# Occupational Therapist - Baywide UCR and Intermediate Care > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/occupational-therapist-baywide-ucr-and-intermediate-care/24bb2faa-a241-41c2-a4b9-58eeaa548f0d - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/occupational-therapist-baywide-ucr-and-intermediate-care/24bb2faa-a241-41c2-a4b9-58eeaa548f0d.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Torbay Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Occupational Therapist - **Grade:** Band 6 - **Salary:** £39,959 - £48,117 per annum - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Part time - 27 hours per week (7 day service including weekends and Bank holidays) - **Closing date:** 2026-09-08T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-08-11T09:40:27.256Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Devon/Paignton/Torbay_South_Devon_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Occupational_Therapy/Occupational_Therapy-v8181228 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8181228?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.torbayandsouthdevon.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview An exciting opportunity has arisen for a part time Occupational Therapist within the urgent care response and intermediate care service in Torbay. This opportunity allows you to undertake holistic needs-led assessments in partnership with service users, patients and carers. You will support the management of a team caseload of complex, highly complex and statutory work, and act as an autonomous practitioner evidencing high levels of problem solving, decision making and independent judgement in a variety of community settings and situations. We work in an integrated way with allied health care professionals within the locality, and are a motivated and caring team to both patients and colleagues therefore, your role with us will involve Community therapy and Intermediate care work. There is a division between these areas of work,. To effectively undertake the role, you will be required to work flexibly to ensure a consistent and robust service, which covers seven day working including weekend and bank holiday work, or working in other localities across the bay as necessary to meet the needs of the service. To explore innovative ways of collaborative working between general practice, health and social services and the private and voluntary sector in line with the Care Trust’s integration agenda. ### Main duties of the job - Responsibility for managing an intensive actue caseload. - Triage and prioritise work according to urgency and establishing presenting risks. - Assessment and treatment of patients in a variety of community settings, which is mainly the patient’s own home, but could incluse nursing homes and residential homes. - Working with a patient centred approach, taking responsibility for planning , implementing and reviewing OT interventions for patients and making autonomous decisions/recommendations regarding packages of care, equipment provision and ongoing treatment to maintain patients at home, thereby preventing hospital admission. Interventions include manual handling assessment and equipment provision, simple and complex equipment and adaptation prescription. - To carry out home assessment visits with patients from temporary places of safety, thereby contributing to the planning and facilitation of discharge to their own homes as appropriate. - Supervisory responsibility for a Band 5 post , Assistant Practitioner or support worker as required. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities - Diploma/Degree in Occupational Therapy - Valid state registration with Health Professions Council - Proven post-graduate experience - Evidence of ability to make decisions under pressure and in stressful situations - Moving and handling protocols and procedures to include provision of hoists and specialist slings - Experience of supervision of junior staff and/or OT students - Highly developed communication skills to include negotiation and experience of communicating sensitive information e.g. unfavourable assessment outcome Full Vacancy details can be found on the attached Job Description/Person Specification. Please refer to your suitability to the post in your supporting information from the role requirements or person specification ### Applicant requirements 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. ## Person Specification ### Specific Skills **Essential** - Knowledge of vulnerable adults protocols and procedures - Elderly care / rehabilitation to include multi-pathology and dementia - Experience of supervision of junior staff and/or OT students **Desirable** - Experience of using standardised assessments, including specialist cognitive assessments - Crisis intervention/acute medicine/vital signs/ taking baseline observations. - Evidence of advanced clinical reasoning skills and proven ability to carry out fast track assessments - Stroke rehabilitation - Mental Health conditions - Community rehabilitation - Experience of the promotion of inter-agency working. - Experience of initiating change in the workplace - Experience of seating and postural management ### Knowledge and experience **Essential** - Proven post-graduate experience - Wheelchair Accreditation - Pressure care knowledge and prescription of suitable equipment - Knowledge and understanding of complex legislation surrounding health and social care - Understanding of National Service Frameworks for Older People, specifically aspects referring to Stroke, Falls and Intermediate Care. - Student Placement Educators Course - Evidence of ability to make decisions under pressure and in stressful situations - Evidence of excellent interpersonal and communication skills - Proven ability to work on own initiative and without direct supervision and make autonomous decisions - Evidence of ability to work within a multi-disciplinary team - Knowledge of specialised disability equipment - Therapeutic and manual handling skills - Detailed understanding of roles of multidisciplinary team members/health and social care agencies - Understanding of clinical governance issues - IT skills **Desirable** - Clinical leadership skills - Recruitment and selection training - Appraisals and supervision training - Experience of clinical audit. ### Qualifications and training **Essential** - Diploma/Degree in Occupational Therapy - Valid state registration with Health Professions Council - CPD portfolio and evidence of recent post-graduate learning relevant to area of clinical practice - Experience within the NHS including experience working in a variety of roles, for example orthopaedics, elderly care and musculoskeletal conditions - Experience in the NHS working in a community setting ### Requirements due to work environment and / or conditions **Essential** - Highly developed communication skills to include negotiation and experience of communicating sensitive information e.g. unfavourable assessment outcomes - Ability to make decisions under pressure - Due to the nature of the role it is essential that applicants are able to travel independently across the locality. **Desirable** - Experience of handling complaints ## Documents - [occupational therapist jd (pdf, 432.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10512532) ## 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.