Job summary
- Main area
- Community Senior Occupational Therapist
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job share
- Flexible working
- Compressed hours
- Job ref
- 150-KB1761-CC
- Employer
- Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Community Therapy Service B&H
- Town
- Brighton and Hove, East Sussex
- Salary
- £37,338 - £44,962 Per Annum/Pro-rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 15/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Occupational Therapist
Band 6
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 6 Senior Occupational Therapist to join our Community Therapy Team (Including the Community Therapy Hub and our In-reach bedded team).
The vacancy is currently to start in the in-reach beds team - with the opportunity to move into the therapy team in the future.
Our multidisciplinary Community Therapy team provides :
- A service to facilitate timely hospital discharges which will be seen within 2 weeks as our target.
- Short term support for people who require assistance with activities of daily living
- A rehabilitation service, including a range of therapies
- Community rehab for people with long term conditions and frailty
- In-reach team assess and provide rehabilitation programmes to patients that are admitted to established commissioned care home in Brighton & Hove.
- Discharge planning with access visits to facilitate patients to transfer the care from nursing homes to their own homes.
- We cover weekends and bank holidays in the in reach team, but not in the community therapy team.
Main duties of the job
Calling all registered Occupational Therapists looking to join a forward-thinking team – you could be an essential part of one of our Therapy Hub teams in Sussex!
We are looking for someone (an experienced Band 5 or Band 6) with sound clinical skills to join our Community Therapy team. The post holder will assess, treat and monitor patients with long term conditions and frailty, as well as providing rehabilitation within their own homes. The post holder will need to have experience of working within a variety of clinical settings, particularly the community.
Therapists who have experience of working in teams alongside Band 3 and 4 unregistered staff and enjoys helping others to learn will be beneficial. The posts are advertised as full time 1.0 wte. We will consider applications for any part time hours (at least 0.4 wte)/job sharing or compressed hours.
Due to the domiciliary nature of this post a full UK driving license and access to a car is essential. The post is subject to successful interview, references, DBS clearance and Occupational Health checks.
The post will involve:
- In-reaching to provide rehab and discharge planning in one of our established commissioned care home.
- Include joint patient visits, liaison with staff at all levels, providing feedback and escalating concerns.
- The post will involve working with patients with a wide variety of pathologies and medical conditions
- will involve visiting patients in their own homes
Working for our organisation
We are the main provider of NHS community services across East and West Sussex, with 6,000 staff serving 1.3 million people. We deliver essential care to adults and children, helping them manage their health, avoid hospital admissions, and reduce hospital stays.
Our Trust vision is to provide excellent care at the heart of the community. We offer opportunities across medical, clinical, support, and corporate services.
Why work for us?
• Positive 2024 NHS Staff Survey results, highlighting compassionate leadership and wellbeing
• Varied environments: community hospitals, patients’ homes, and bases across Sussex
• Flexible working options: part-time, flexi-time, annualised hours, and flexi-retirement
• Excellent training, development, and research opportunities
• Cost-effective workplace nurseries in Crawley, Hove, and Brighton
• Active EMBRACE, Disability & Wellbeing, LGBTQIA+, and Religion & Belief networks
• Level 3 Disability Confident Leader and Veteran Aware Trust
• Beautiful Sussex location near the South Downs and coast
Our values—Compassionate Care, Working Together, Achieving Ambitions, Delivering Excellence—guide everything we do.
We embrace diversity and encourage applications from all backgrounds, particularly from ethnically diverse, disabled, and LGBTQIA+ individuals. We aim to create an inclusive environment and support reasonable adjustments during recruitment.
This post may close early if sufficient applications are received.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
This will include patients who have recently been discharged from hospital and those requiring help to improve their mobility and independence.
You will need to demonstrate good time management and organisational skills and be able to work under your own initiative in a busy environment.
We offer a high standard of in-service training and competency development to gain new skills, along with opportunities for career development. You will be well supported and encouraged to continuously develop your leadership skills through supervision and internal training opportunities and programmes to meet the needs of yourself and the service.
Please contact Ruth Kearton (Therapy Operational Lead for in reach beds) [email protected] or 01273 242 117 option 3
Person specification
Skills and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Experience within specialism underpinned by theory and specific therapeutic knowledge
- Demonstrates competency in a range of clinical skills
- Experience of using assessment tools relevant to client group
- Ability to assess, plan, implement and evaluate care for individuals
- Able to plan and prioritise own workload efficiently
- Ability to delegate work to others
- Demonstrates leadership in practice
- Good numeracy and literacy skills
- Promotes choice and independence in undertaking patient care
- Demonstrates advanced communication and negotiation skills
- Ability to demonstrate the application of research based practice
- IT literacy
- Knowledge of national policies and procedures relevant to the clinical setting
- Knowledge of clinical governance, clinical audit and risk management
- Supervision and appraisal of junior staff
- Knowledge of professional code of conduct
- Ability to demonstrate knowledge / understanding of boundaries of role
- Demonstrate ability to reflect and learn from situations
- Identifies difficulties as challenges and works with others to identify solutions
- Demonstrates co-operative team working and awareness of the roles of other professionals
- Demonstrates a commitment to learning and development with documented evidence of CPD
Experience
Essential criteria
- Substantial relevant post-qualification experience covering a broad range
- Experience of working within a relevant specialist area
- Experience of interdisciplinary working
- Experience of supervising junior staff, assistants and students
- Experience of independently managing a clinical caseload
- Contributions to audit and evaluation within a clinical governance framework
- Experience of a range of caseload management and prioritisation systems
Desirable criteria
- Experience of triaging and caseload allocation
Other requirements
Essential criteria
- Ability to travel
- Has driving licence and access to a car
Qualifications and/or Professional Registration
Essential criteria
- Professional qualification such as a degree or equivalent in Physiotherapy or Occupational Therapy.
- Current registration with the Health and Care Professions Council as a Physiotherapist or Occupational Therapist.
- Evidence of relevant postgraduate courses / CPD and reflective practice relevant to clinical specialty
- Has driving license for UK and access to a car
Desirable criteria
- Training in student education
- Attended leadership course
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Ruth Kearton
- Job title
- Therapy Operational Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01273242117
- Additional information
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