Job requirements
Essential
11 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Skills
Ability to be an autonomous practitioner
- Skills
Commitment to the clinical development of others
- Skills
IT skills
- Skills
Able to work across daytime shifts and work weekends and bank holidays
- Experience
Case management experience
- Experience
Good understanding of the NHS and relevant national standards
- Experience
Community and bedded care experience working with adults and older people
- Educations/Qualifications
HCPC registration
- Educations/Qualifications
Diploma/Degree in Occupational Therapy
- Educations/Qualifications
Varied Band 5 clinical experience that must include a physical setting
- Educations/Qualifications
Evidence of CPD
Desirable
2 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Experience
Experience of working in rapids with triage interest
- Educations/Qualifications
Band 6 experience in a relevant clinical field
Job overview
Are you a looking for an opportunity to develop your clinical and professional skills as an Occupational Therapist as part of a well-established MDT providing a range of rehabilitation services?
If so, look no further, come and join us in the High Peak Integrated Community Team!
We have exciting, substantive opportunities for a highly motivated Occupational Therapist with a patient-centred approach and a passion for rehabilitation to work within the Community Therapy, Bedded Care Therapy and Rapid Response services with an opportunity to be involved in therapy triage.
Main duties of the job
Our integrated, multi-disciplinary team provides community assessments and goal focused rehabilitation to support patients in our Pathway 2 bedded care facilities, patient's own homes and care homes.
You will have the opportunity to develop your skills of specialist therapy assessment and treatment in a community setting, alongside developing additional generic skills to provide a comprehensive assessment to a variety of complex patients.
As part of the role there will be a need for travel across the High Peak and the surrounding area, therefore access to a vehicle is essential. As a clinical employee it will be your responsibility to ensure that your behaviour and values reflect those set out in the DCHS Way.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached 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
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.
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This advert is for Occupational Therapist with Derbyshire Community Health Services NHS Foundation Trust in Chesterfield, England. It is listed as a Band 6 Occupational Therapist role. The advertised salary is £39,959 - £48,117 per annum, pro rata. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 23 Oct 2026.
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