Occupational Therapist

Job summary

Were looking for a fulltime (37.5 hours) Occupational Therapist to join our experienced MSK Primary Care team on a fixedterm contract until 31/03/2027. As the role includes home visits, youll need to be a car driver with access to your own vehicle.

Primary Care Physio is Englands largest independent provider of firstcontact primary care services. We partner with NHS PCNs and GP practices to deliver highquality, techenabled FCP Physiotherapy and Podiatry services.

Our team of over 360 First Contact Physios, First Contact Podiatrists, and Advanced Practitioners is supported by HEEapproved clinical supervisors under the FCP Roadmap to Practice. More than 175 NHS PCNs have commissioned our services.

We currently support around 15% of GP practices across England, serving over 8 million patients. Within the ICB area, several PCNs have chosen us to deliver a fully managed, highquality FCP service.

By joining us, youll be embedded within a GP practice MDT while also benefiting from the wider support, supervision, and professional community of our national network.

Main duties of the job

This post requires an occupational therapist who is specialised and can work at a high level of practice in primary care. They will use in-depth, expert knowledge, clinical skills, and experience in the management of patients, groups, and communities occupational participation.

The post holder will provide personalised, biopsychosocial occupational therapy interventions from initial clinical assessment, diagnosis, intervention to evaluation. They will provide complex clinical decision-making, and expert care for patients in primary care.

They will have a comprehensive understanding of how to use risk assessment for undifferentiated diagnoses and clinical red flags, including when alternative input is required. They will work collaboratively with the primary care multi-disciplinary team (MDT) across pathways and systems. They will meet the needs of patients and carers, offer digital delivery, and support the delivery of appropriate policy and procedures.They will provide occupational therapy leadership across clinical practice, education, and research.

The focus of this service will be rehabilitation for older adults to stay well at home. There will be the requirement to use risk stratification tools, rapid access, assessment of the home and short-terminterventions including advice on how people can be safely managed. Will also include working into care homes and palliative care, dealing with undifferentiated diagnosis and red flags

About us

We are a non-bureaucratic, non-hierarchical, and highly supportive team dedicated to providing excellent primary care first-contact MSK services. Our "can-do" attitude and positive approach drive our passion for delivering exceptional care.

We welcome applicants from diverse career backgrounds, including NHS B6, B7 & B8, private practice & professional sport.

We take pride in offering unrivalled day-to-day peer support, continuing professional development (CPD), and training opportunities. Each team member benefits from 4 hours of protected supervision and CPD time per week, equivalent to 27 days annually, including a weekly one-on-one session with an HEE-approved FCP Supervisor.

Our commitment to professional growth extends to supporting team members through the Roadmap, across all routes whether via the HEI taught route, HEI-supported portfolio route, or the independent portfolio verification process. Additionally, we fully fund external Level 7 MSc courses such as Injection Therapy and Non-Medical Prescribing.

Having mobilized over 175 PCN FCP services, we understand that transitioning to primary care or undertaking an FCP post for the first time can be daunting. Our extensive experience in implementing FCP services ensures that both you and the primary care network receive comprehensive support, setting the stage for a successful service delivery.

To learn more about what our employees say about working with us, visit: https://uk.indeed.com/cmp/Primary-Care-Physio/reviews

Details

• Date posted: 06 May 2026
• Pay scheme: Other
• Salary: £42,000 to £56,500 a year
• Contract: Fixed term
• Duration: 12 months
• Working pattern: Full-time
• Reference number: E0149-26-0116
• Job locations: St. Clements Surgery, Churchgate Way, Terrington St. Clement, King's Lynn, Norfolk, PE34 4LZ, United Kingdom, Doctors Surgery, Chapel Road, Boughton, King's Lynn, Norfolk, PE33 9AG, United Kingdom

Job responsibilities

Clinical Practice

• Assess, plan, implement, and evaluate treatment plans, with an aim to to ensure people can cope at home, including support for carers.
• Use of frailty indexes to identify people needing a proactive approach.
• Rapid crisis response to prevent hospital admission or to speed discharge.
• Short term rehabilitation interventions and referral onto specialist services if indicated.
• Work with patients through a shared-decision making approach to plan realistic, outcomes focused goals.
• Undertake both verbal and non-verbal communication methods to address the needs of patients that have communication difficulties.
• Work in partnership with multi-disciplinary team colleagues, physiotherapists and social workers, alongside the patients' families and carers in treatment planning to aid rehabilitation.

Evidence, Research, and Development

• Implement all aspects of effective clinical governance for your own practice, including undertaking regular audit and evaluation, supervision, and training in line with HEEs Roadmap to Practice.
• Liaise with PCN multi-disciplinary team, community and secondary care staff, to arrange further investigations and onward referrals.
• Communicate outcomes and integrate findings into their own and wider service practice and pathway development.
• Where appropriate, support the development of discharge and contingency plans with relevant professionals to arrange on-going care in residential, care home, hospital, and community settings.
• As required, advise on home and workplace environmental alterations, such as adjustments for wheelchair access, technological needs, and ergonomic support.
• Develop best-in-class Occupational Therapy Standard Operating Procedures for appropriate onward referral pathways and care pathways noting local variances.

Leadership

• Provide leadership and support on occupational therapy clinical service development across your PCN, alongside learning opportunities for the whole multi-disciplinary team within primary care.
• Lead the development of crisis and contingency plans with relevant professionals to prevent admission to or speed discharge from hospital. This should focus on maximising and maintaining independence in preferred home, work, and community settings.
• Lead on the development, implementation, and evaluation of a seamless occupational therapy service across primary care. This will include working with health, social care and voluntary sectors, improving standards of patient care and cross boundary working.
• Lead and manage service delivery by supporting Primary Care Physio in evidencing what best practice looks like and extending our service reach across England.
• Liaise with the Royal College of Occupational Therapists to support implementation of best practice, and act as a thought leader for OTs working in primary care.

Facilitating learning

• Facilitate and co-create interprofessional learning about occupational needs and interventions for primary care staff, to enhance local decision making.
• Demonstrate high standards of personal and professional development, actively participating in mentoring and supervision to develop and share learning with colleagues. Promote the use of peer review and best practice at work, alerting other team members to issues of inequality and risk.
• Contribute to and co-create relevant audit processes, implementing ongoing service changes to better meet local population needs.
• Be a point of contact for your Primary Care Physio colleagues to answer clinical queries as and when they present, including delivering in-house in service training to the wider PCP clinical team(s).

Key skills and attributes

• Ability to work under pressure in a fast-paced and changing environment.
• Strong clinical problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Ability to critically reflect on your own professional developmental needs, and is motivated to progress your clinical development (with support)
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with an ability to work cohesively with a wider team.
• Office skills including the use of IT programmes, databases and other modern/tech based ways of working and collaborating.
• Involve patients in decision making and supporting adherence as per NICE guidance.
• Able to follow legal, ethical, professional and organisational policies/procedures and codes of conduct.

Experience, knowledge and qualifications

• BSc in or pre-reg MSc in Occupational Therapy under a training programme approved by the Royal College of Occupational Therapists (RCOT).
• Fully HCPC and RCOT registered practicing Occupational Therapist.
• An up-to-date CPD portfolio demonstrating that you able to operate at an advanced level of practice.
• Fully verified HEE Roadmap to Practice (Stage 1) (desirable).
• Completion of an appropriate level 7 MSc in Advanced Practice (desirable).

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

Primary Care Physio (PCP) welcomes applications from all backgrounds and is committed to fair and inclusive recruitment. We are happy to provide reasonable adjustments and support throughout the recruitment process. If you need assistance with your application due to a disability or long-term health condition, please contact:primarycarefcp.talent@nhs.net

This supports:

• Equality Act 2010 (reasonable adjustments duty)
• NHS People Promise (Belonging, Compassionate and Inclusive)
• CQC Well-Led domain (inclusive culture, fair treatment)