An excellent opportunity for an Occupational Therapist to join a high-quality Occupational  

Therapy service. Our service aims to help adults to continue to live at home, where your role will be to assess and manage a caseload of patients, on an inpatient ward, with varied and complex needs located across West Berkshire.  

This is an exciting opportunity to work for an Outstanding CQC rated Trust committed to  

workplace wellbeing and to making Berkshire Healthcare a great place to work for everyone. This is demonstrated in the latest National Staff Survey results where we achieved the highest engagement score (staff feedback on their motivation, advocacy, and involvement at work) of all Community and Mental Health Trusts.  

The ideal candidate will be a registered Occupational Therapist with an interest in the  

rehabilitation of older adults, have great organisational skills and enjoy team working. 

Working Pattern and Service Overview. This core hours of this role will be 8am – 4pm. Currently we are not following weekend working patterns, this may change in the future.   

Work base: Ascot and Windsor Ward, Wokingham Community Hospital, 41 Barkham Road, Wokingham, RG41 2RE  

These are the values that we live by at Berkshire Healthcare:  

• Caring for and about you is our top priority 

• Committed to providing good quality, safe services 

• working Together with you to develop innovative solutions  

We welcome people who share these values to come and work for us.  

Please find attached the behaviour framework/ person specification that underpins these values for this job role

The post will be part of a Multi-Disciplinary Team within an inpatient setting which  will offer assessment and treatment for patients in the west of Berkshire. 

To provide supervision guidance to band 3 and 4 support workers in the therapy team.  

To make recommendations to the wider MDT and to support with education of  students. 

To identify service developments, needs, contribute to the planning, development and evaluation of the service and have responsibility for defined projects.

 To be responsible for a complex caseload using an interdisciplinary, patient focused  rehabilitative approach with support from the senior therapists.