Specialist Community Occupational Therapist
HCRG Care Group
Five Rivers Leisure Centre, SP1 3NR
Salary
£39,959 to £48,117
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Not specified
Closing date
25 September 2026
25 days left
Job description
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Specialist Community Occupational Therapist to join our multidisciplinary team at Five Rivers Health and Well...
This permanent position is for a Specialist Community Occupational Therapist to join the HCRG Care Group. The role is based at Five Rivers Health and Wellbeing Centre, offering a salary between £39,959 and £48,117, dependent on experience. The role involves providing occupational therapy assessment, treatment, and advice to patients both at home and in outpatient settings to promote independence and well-being. As part of a multidisciplinary team, the role focuses on enhancing community rehabilitation and avoiding hospital admissions. Full-time working hours are 37.5 per week. A strong emphasis is placed on professional guidelines, patient-centred care, and continuous professional development. Applicants must possess Dip COT/BSc/BSc(Hons)/MSc OT and be registered with the Health Professional Council.
Package Description
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Specialist Community Occupational Therapist to join our multidisciplinary team at Five Rivers Health and Wellbeing Centre, SP1 3NR. This role offers a varied and rewarding caseload, enabling you to use your clinical expertise to deliver person-centred, evidence-based occupational therapy interventions across the community.
As an Occupational Therapist, you will: provide occupational therapy assessment, treatment and advice to patients in their home environment or outpatient setting in order to promote and facilitate patient independence and well-being, within professional guidelines and protocols.
This is an exciting time to join us as we work in collaboration with local services to enhance rehabilitation in a seamless and integrated way.
If you're ready to take on this meaningful and fulfilling role, we'd love to hear from you!
This is a full-time role working 37.5 hours per week.
Base: Five Rivers Health and Wellbeing Centre, Hulse Rd, Salisbury SP1 3NR
- To be accountable for assessing, interpreting, planning and implementing occupational therapy treatment and care to patients within professional guidelines, with the support of specialist team members and the Team Leader.
- To undertake assessments, care planning and evaluation.
- Wherever possible to avoid hospital admission and reduce inpatient length of stay to ensure those patients receive the appropriate care in the most appropriate setting.
- To keep the patient at the centre of his or her care, ensuring patient and carer participation in decision making.
- With support of a specialist nurse or therapist to be accountable for the assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating clinical care plans, ensuring that care, needs and wishes of the individual are carefully and accurately documented in the clinical records.
- To support with Urgent Community Response relating to falls assessment, intervention, onward referral and signposting.
- To interpret situations acting and referring on appropriately.
Please see the job description attached for a full list of responsibilities.
The ideal candidate will have
Essential
- Dip COT/BSc/BSc(Hons)/MSc OT
- Registered as an OT with the Health professional Council
- To possess a current, valid full driving licence
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Knowledge of legislation affecting professional practice
- Experience of applying research based information to practice
- Assessment and care planning
- Working with a multi-disciplinary team
- Experience within a range of patient/client care groups
- To be able to communicate with people from a wide range of backgrounds
- To be able to work flexibly and sensitively
- Wide range of interpersonal and communication skills
- Competence in a wide range of occupational therapy skills
Desirable
- Teaching and Assessing in Clinical practice
- Further qualifications relevant to the role - Awareness of recent Government Papers that may affect future clinical practice
- Evidence of innovative and flexible approach to care
Please see the job description attached for the full specification.
Package Description
As a Community Occupational Therapistyou will be part of our valued team in our BSW Service, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- Band 6 AfC Salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
- Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover lifes emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
- Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
- Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our Outstanding learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
- An open, just culture where youre encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
- The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding good or outstanding ratings from the Care Quality Commission
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency, and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. Were a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesnt happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and well need to close it earlier than the date weve shown here. If youre keen to join our team, wed love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
As youd expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.
Finally, we need to let you know that the company youll work for is part of HCRG Care Group Holdings Limited and by applying for this job well need to process and hold information about you. If you would like to know a little more about how we use your information, please see our website's privacy policy.
HCRG Care Group is a leading provider of community health and care services in the UK, established in 2006. They collaborate with health and care commissioners as well as local communities to deliver and transform services with a focus on improved patient experience, efficiency, and outcomes. The organisation offers a variety of services, including adult and children's community health services, primary care, urgent care, sexual health, and wellbeing services. Committed to equal opportunities, HCRG Care Group welcomes applications from diverse backgrounds and is a Disability Confident Committed company. They focus on safeguarding children, young people, and vulnerable adults with stringent recruitment processes.
Qualifications
Essential
- Essential: Dip COT/BSc/BSc(Hons)/MSc OT, Registered as an OT with the Health professional Council, Valid full driving licence, Evidence of continuing professional development, Knowledge of legislation affecting practice, Experience within a range of patient/client care groups.
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Provenance
Source
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First seen
28 August 2026
Last checked
31 August 2026
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