Job overview

We are seeking a dynamic Band 6 Specialist Occupational Therapist to join our East Rehab Therapies Team.

In this varied and rewarding role, you’ll manage a diverse caseload of individuals with complex needs across community and inpatient settings, using evidence‑based practice to deliver high‑quality, person‑centred rehabilitation. You’ll exercise professional autonomy when assessing, planning and reviewing interventions, and play a key part in triaging new referrals into the service.

You will support and guide junior colleagues, including rotational Band 5 therapists and wider team members, while also taking a lead role in supervising Occupational Therapy students. As an experienced clinician, you’ll contribute to service development, helping shape and enhance therapy pathways to deliver the best outcomes for our patients.

Main duties of the job

• To manage a defined caseload of patients with complex needs within the Community and inpatient settings using evidence-based practice, occupational therapy process and patient-centered principles
• To provide a high standard occupational therapy to the service, performing advanced assessments of patients including those with highly complex presentations, and from this formulating a diagnosis and treatment plan.
• To have an active role with the triage of new referrals coming into the teams.
• To provide leadership and support for junior staff through supervision, training, and appraisal as well as leading with occupational therapy students
• To participate in the planning and development of therapy services.
•  Model and deliver excellent evidence based clinical care, working as an autonomous Practitioner.
• To support the community rehabilitation and inpatient service in line with a ‘one workforce’ culture across services, settings, and sectors in the community and step-down intermediate care settings.

Working for our organisation

We’re an NHS community and mental health provider Trust based in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.  We deliver community and hospital-based care to improve people’s physical and mental health.  We also provide specialist support to people with dementia or a learning disability.

We are a people organisation and people matter to us.  As part of the team, you’ll help support the health and wellbeing of the people who live and visit this beautiful part of the UK.

Over 5,000 people make up the Trust.  This includes doctors, nurses, therapists, plus admin and support staff.

We work in people’s homes, in community clinics and bases.  Some staff work from one of our 10 community hospitals.  Our aspiration is to have great people, provide great care, be a great place to work and a great partner.

Approximately 568,000 people live here.  A third of people who live in Cornwall are supported by acute hospital services in Devon.  As a result, we also work closely with our partners in Devon.  In the summer, and during other holidays lots of people choose to visit the area.  This increase the numbers of people who use out services.