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Essential
22 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Experience
Experience, underpinned by knowledge of working with and understanding the complex needs of patients in a primary care/community setting.
- Experience
Have a broad range of clinical skills, including assessment and treatments of a variety of conditions including neuro, orthopaedic, MSK and elderly.
- Experience
Involved in the implementation and management of change.
- Experience
Experience of working with long-term conditions and frailty.
- Experience
Demonstrates organisational skills: including the ability to make decisions and to prioritise.
- Experience
Ability to understand and interpret research findings/evidence-based care and apply to practice.
- Experience
Participation and comprehension of clinical and professional supervision.
- Qualifications
Appropriate professional qualification (Occupational Therapist) with full HCPC registration
- Qualifications
Degree level award (level 6) plus post graduate experience
- Qualifications
Able to demonstrate a good command of the English Language both written and verbal
- Qualifications
Computer Literate in both data entry and communicating via IT - emails and report writing
- Additional Criteria
Knowledge of current clinical and professional issues relevant to the field of occupational therapy.
- Additional Criteria
Evidence of ability to perform multidisciplinary tasks and work across multi disciplinary boundaries.
- Additional Criteria
Experienced decision making to inform clinical reasoning approaches when managing complex situations, synthesising information from multiple sources to make appropriate, evidence-based judgements and/or diagnoses.
- Additional Criteria
Leadership, and communication skills, including the ability to prioritise competing tasks in a highly complex and dynamic environment.
- Additional Criteria
Ability to develop positive relationship with a range of internal and external stakeholders.
- Additional Criteria
Confidence in the application and analysis of data and audit processes to provide effective clinical governance.
- Additional Criteria
Demonstrate the required behaviour in keeping with the Trust values.
- Additional Criteria
Organisational and self management skills including those relating to own workload and those of others in an unpredictable environment.
- Additional Criteria
Good communication skills including to communicate complex, sensitive or confidential information in an appropriate manner; to liaise effectively; to understand and disseminate multifaceted information.
- Additional Criteria
Evidence of the ability to deliver learning sessions (formal or informal) to groups of professionals
- Additional Criteria
To hold a current UK driving license with business insurance cover.
Desirable
5 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Experience
Experience of initiating or participating in quality improvement project relating to clinical practice
- Experience
Experience working within Hospital at home or Urgent Community Response Services
- Experience
Experience in admission avoidance pathways
- Qualifications
Further education training eg: external courses/masters degree or equivalent experience gained by undertaking on-going personal development and training.
- Qualifications
Management/Leadership Qualification/development programme
Job summary
Community Rehabilitation & Hospital at Home Services
Agenda for Change: Band 6
Location: Alton Community Rehabilitation Hospital, North Hospital @ Home & Mid Community Therapy Services
Hours: Full Time (Part Time Considered)
Contract: Permanent
Join Our Team & Make a Difference Every Day
We are looking for an enthusiastic, motivated, & forward-thinking Band 6 Occupational Therapists to join our dynamic rotational service across our Community Rehabilitation Hospital, Community Therapy Team, & Hospital at Home Service.
This is an exciting opportunity for an Occupational Therapist wishing to develop specialist skills across a range of settings while working within a supportive & innovative multidisciplinary team (MDT).
You will play a key role in supporting patients to maximise independence, prevent unnecessary hospital admissions, & facilitate safe discharge & rehabilitation within their own homes & local communities.
Our Vision
Our teams are committed to delivering high-quality rehabilitation & integrated care that enables people to remain independent, recover closer to home, & avoid unnecessary hospital admissions. We work together to provide compassionate, person-centred care that supports patients to achieve their goals & live well in their communities.
If you are passionate about rehabilitation, integrated working, & supporting patients to thrive at home, we would love to hear from you. Apply today & help shape the future of community rehabilitation & hospital avoidance services.
Main duties of the job
You will work across our Community Rehabilitation Hospital, Community Therapy Team & Hospital at Home Service, providing assessment, treatment & rehabilitation for patients following illness, injury or deconditioning
Working within a multidisciplinary team of physiotherapists, nurses, rehabilitation assistants, medical staff & social care colleagues, you will help patients maximise independence, recovery & safe discharge
You will assess & treat patients in their own homes, recommend equipment, adaptations & interventions, support admission avoidance, early supported discharge & rehabilitation closer to home, & contribute to integrated care planning, risk assessment & recovery for patients who may otherwise require inpatient care
Main Duties
Manage complex caseloads across community & rehab settings.
Undertake holistic assessments & treatment planning.
Work with multidisciplinary teams to achieve patient-centred outcomes.
Support hospital avoidance & timely discharge planning
Provide supervision for junior staff, assistants & students
Participate in service development, quality improvement & clinical governance
Contribute to integrated health & social care pathways
Why Join Us
Supportive MDT
Varied rotational opportunities
Regular supervision & professional development
Leadership & specialist training opportunities
Service improvement projects
Flexible working where service needs allow
Great opportunity to develop skills across a range of community rehabilitation services
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
Details
- Date posted: 28 August 2026
- Pay scheme: Agenda for change
- Band: Band 6
- Salary: £39,959 to £48,117 a year Pro rata for part time hours
- Contract: Permanent
- Working pattern: Full-time, Part-time
- Reference number: 348-MNH-12417
- Job locations: Alton Community Hospital, Chawton Park Road, Alton, Hampshire, GU34 1RJ, United Kingdom
Job responsibilities
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
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This advert is for Occupational Therapist Integrated Care Rotation with Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust in Southampton, England. It is listed as a Band 6 Occupational Therapist role. The advertised salary is £39959.00 to £48117.00. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 13 Sep 2026.
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