Job summary
- Main area
- Physiotherapy/Occupational Therapy
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (7 day working, service until 9pm)
- Job ref
- 362-A-25-7368218
- Employer
- Stockport NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Regent House- D2A and ICAH services
- Town
- Stockport
- Salary
- £38,682 - £46,580 pro rata per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 21/08/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Band 6 Community Practitioner- OT
Band 6
Stockport NHS Foundation Trust
There are lots of good reasons to choose to come and work at Stockport NHS Foundation Trust. A dynamic integrated Trust with integrity and vision. Exactly the same qualities you’ll see in yourself. Stockport NHS Foundation Trust aims to be the organisation of choice for patients and an employer of choice for staff. In order to continually improve all aspects of our patient experience, we rely upon having a highly skilled, motivated, diverse, productive and patient focused workforce.
Stockport Foundation Trust is one of four ‘specialist’ hospital sites in Greater Manchester. Being a ‘specialist’ hospital will enhance our general surgery, anaesthetics, critical care and emergency medicine for the benefit of people in Stockport, High Peak, Cheshire and across Greater Manchester.
Our values ‘We Care, We Respect, We Listen’ are at the heart of everything we do, and come from our promise: ‘Making a difference every day.’ They drive the behaviour and actions for everyone in our organisation.
In your application for this post, please describe how your experience and skills align with 'Our values-based behaviours' ( see additional documentation) and provide examples.
Greater Manchester Continuous Service Commitment
As well as recognising previous NHS service, Stockport NHS Foundation Trust is a member of the Greater Manchester Continuous Service Commitment. If you are currently employed by Greater Manchester Local Authority, Combined Authority, GMFRS, TfGM as well as other public service organisations, Stockport NHS Foundation Trust will recognise your previous service for sickness and maternity/paternity/adoption entitlement and also for annual leave purposes (providing there has been no break in service). If you currently work for one of the above organisations and successfully apply for a post with Stockport NHS Foundation Trust, please ensure the Recruitment team are aware so that this service is reflected in your contract of employment.
Our Values:
We Care
About each other
Our patients and their families
The communities we serve
The environment
We support them and deliver on their promises
We Respect
Each other
Our patients and their families
Our partners
We are kind and helpful, and we expect the same in return
We Listen to
Each other
Our patients and their families
Our partners
We act and learn from what we hear
Job overview
Occupational Therapist- Discharge to Assess Services and Intermediate Care at Home
The Discharge to Assess team is an innovative and exciting service, aiming to facilitate timely discharges to the residents of Stockport and surrounding areas. Working as part of a multi-disciplinary team, they will facilitate timely discharges from acute hospital sites and provide assessment and support planning to meet a person’s needs in the community. The post holder will provide and/or arrange appropriate support interventions in the community via Discharge to Assess collaboratively working closely with colleagues across all sectors.
Working as part of a lively and dynamic multi-professional team, you will deliver holistic support and interventions to improve the health and well-being of individuals in a bed based facility. In joining our team you will be helping us to drive our ambition of improving the health and well-being of people by working across organisational boundaries.
This is an exciting time to join our lively and diverse team, as the service expands and develops we require enthusiastic staff to shape our evolving service using skill, motivation and person centred care to provide an innovative service to the communities of Stockport.
Main duties of the job
We are looking for highly motivated, forward thinking and experienced clinicians with a specialist interest in frailty who will work alongside an integrated Multidisciplinary Team to improve flow and quality of the patient's journey. You must have excellent communication, organisational and leadership skills, with the ability to work autonomously, whilst being flexible and adaptable to supporting the service leads in developing and changing the service as it evolves.
You will be part of an integrated therapy team and we have a strong commitment to support all staff members with CPD opportunities. We offer regular supervision and annual appraisal with a regular in-service training programme.
The post requires a commitment to weekend working which is underpinned by teaching and a competency programme.
The post requires working hours over a 7 day service and fulfilling the service needs until 9pm.
Working for our organisation
We hold a unique position in the Stockport community as the provider of healthcare and we are one of its largest employers.
Our mission is to make a difference every day. Our values are that we care, we respect, and we listen
We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We are therefore seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce to make it truly representative of our local population.
We actively encourage applications irrespective of race, age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage & civil partnership, or pregnancy or maternity. Recognising those communities that are underrepresented within our workforce, we would particularly welcome applications from you.
We recognise that flexible working is important. We take requests for flexible working seriously, consider any request we receive and try to work with you, so we can explore if your request may fit with the needs of the service.
The salary for the role is only one part of the excellent package of benefits we offer to you:
- Between 27-33 days of annual leave plus bank holidays
- NHS pension scheme membership
- Salary sacrifice schemes for lease cars, home electronics and more, to make your salary go further
- NHS Staff discounts
- Cycle to work scheme
- Salary finance – for loans, savings, budget planning and tips on managing debt
- Stockport Credit Union– for local financial advice
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Qualified Occupational Therapist
The Discharge to Assess team continually develop and enhance the seamless transfer of care from acute care settings to a patient's usual residence. The successful candidate will therefore embody trust values, in supporting and facilitating safe discharge to individuals who are deemed medically optimised. The successful candidate will be passionate in providing community based interventions, demonstrating a high level of holistic care independently and as part of a team.
The Multi professional team consists of highly skilled, registered Nursing staff, Occupational Therapists and Physiotherapists, Pharmacy and Community Support Workers.
The team provides a seven day service until 9pm, therefore this entails working some weekend and bank holidays. The post is based in the community delivering assessments and interventions where required; therefore independent travel with access to a vehicle, business insurance and a full driving licence to deliver the role is essential.
We promote a positive ethos on personal and professional development, providing access to training and supervisions. You will be offered induction, supernumerary working and full access to mandatory training, furthermore CDP training is full supported and very much encouraged. Regular PDRs and reflective supervisions are provided, alongside peer support sessions in the form of multidisciplinary and profession specific team meetings.
If successful this vacancy will require an enhanced DBS check at a cost of £54.90. This cost will be deducted from your first Trust salary
In addition to this it will be a condition of your employment that you will join the DBS update service and pay the annual subscription fee of £16.
Person specification
Education & Qualifications
Essential criteria
- • Diploma/Degree in Occupational Therapy.
- • State Registration with the Health & Care Professions Council.
- • Commitment to lifelong learning – evidence of CPD maintained in a portfolio.
Desirable criteria
- • Experience as clinical educator.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- • Specialist knowledge and application of occupational therapy assessment and interventions.
- • Ability to use and interpret a range of standardised assessment.
- • Use of OT outcome measures
- • Basic I.T. skills.
Desirable criteria
- • Appraisal Skills training.
- • Clinical Supervisor training.
- • Introducing management training.
- • Clear vision of role/commitment to specialty.
- • Evidence of some area of special interest.
Experience
Essential criteria
- • Post-registration experience of working with a variety of conditions.
- • Supervision of junior staff, assistants and students.
Desirable criteria
- • Involvement in relevant audit.
- • Leadership and first hand management experience.
Skills & Abilities
Essential criteria
- • Extensive clinical experience in OT.
- • High level of rehabilitation skills.
- • Ability to work autonomously and set own priorities.
- • Ability to reflect and critically appraise own performance.
- • Ability to provide spontaneous and planned solutions to complex problems.
- • Ability to pass on skills/knowledge to others within both formal and informal environments
- • Ability to communicate with patients where there may be significant barriers to understanding.
- Access to car for work purposes
Desirable criteria
- • Ability to support/motivate OT colleagues and lead by example.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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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.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Rachel Henderson
- Job title
- Band 7 Team Lead- Occupational Thearpist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0161835 6694
- Additional information
Discharge to Assess Team Leads:
Justine Barg
Lauren Nelson
Gabriella Catania
Tel 0161 835 6694
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