# Senior Community Occupational Therapist > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Sirona care & health CIC. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/senior-community-occupational-therapist/4039eece-283e-4609-b9a8-200d72ea0c5e - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/senior-community-occupational-therapist/4039eece-283e-4609-b9a8-200d72ea0c5e.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Sirona care & health CIC - **Location:** Withywood Centre - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Occupational Therapist - **Grade:** Band 6 - **Salary:** £39,959 - £48,117 pro rata, per annum - **Contract type:** Permanent: Also available as a FTC or Secondment - **Employment type:** Full time, Part time, Flexible working, 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-08-28T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-08-14T13:00:33.861Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/Bristol/Sirona_care_health_CIC/Occupational_Therapy/Occupational_Therapy-v8231363 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8231363?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://sirona-cic.org.uk/ ## Job Content ### Job overview Make a real difference where it matters most. We’re looking for a Senior Occupational Therapist to join our South Bristol team, delivering person-centred care in the community. This is a great opportunity to support people to live well at home—preventing hospital admissions, enabling timely discharge, and delivering meaningful rehabilitation that improves quality of life. You’ll see the impact of your work every day, helping people regain independence and achieve what matters most to them. At Sirona, we’re committed to your development. You’ll build specialist community skills, work closely within a supportive multidisciplinary team, and gain experience supervising and supporting others as you grow your leadership skills. Our Integrated Neighbourhood Teams are forward-thinking and focused on personalised care. You’ll work alongside OTs, Physiotherapists, Nurses, Specialist Practitioners and Support Staff to deliver high-quality care in patients’ homes. We offer flexible working with full-time and part-time opportunities, supporting a positive work-life balance. ### Main duties of the job - Deliver holistic assessments, planning and evaluating care for patients with acute and complex needs - Use clinical reasoning to provide evidence-based, person-centred interventions that promote safe, high-quality care - Manage your own caseload and support effective team coordination and service delivery - Work proactively with MDT colleagues to prevent avoidable admissions and support timely discharges - Collaborate with patients, families and carers to set meaningful goals that maximise independence and quality of life - Facilitate referrals and coordinate care based on individual needs - Assess and arrange appropriate equipment within scope of practice - Support, supervise and contribute to the development of junior staff, peers and students - Maintain accurate, timely and legally compliant records - Contribute to training and continuous service improvement - Identify and manage risk to ensure the safety of patients, colleagues and yourself Want to know more? Get in touch or join us for a shadow shift to see if this role is right for you. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities - Relocation support is available in line with our policy—contact us to find out more - Work with us already and know someone who’d be a great fit? Refer them and receive a £500 bonus - Ensure all qualifications and employment referenced in your supporting statement are included in your application, or they may not be considered Please see the attached Job Description for a full list of duties and responsibilities before applying for this position. ### 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 ### Qualifications **Essential** - BSc or equivalent in Occupational Therapy and HCPC registration - Evidence of continuing professional development and commitment to lifelong learning **Desirable** - Willingness to undertake additional study and qualifications relevant to the role. Tell us how you would be motivated to do so. ### Skills, knowledge and experience **Essential** - Explain and evidence how you have effectively led a team with senior support when required - Explain and evidence how you've made clinically reasoned judgements when working with a variety of conditions - Explain and give evidence of supervising staff and students of own profession - Effective time management and caseload management - Explain and evidence how you're able to work autonomously, with the ability to know when to seek appropriate advice / guidance from senior staff. **Desirable** - Recent relevant experience within the community setting - Experience of supervising staff and students from other professions - Working with a range of professionals in health or social care ## Documents - [senior ot jd (pdf, 176.2kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10541272) - [employees benefits (pdf, 4.3mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=2102) - [application guidance (pdf, 352.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=2466) ## 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.