Job Introduction
Make a Real Impact with a Unique Occupational Therapy Rotation at HCRG Care Group
Are you ready to grow your Occupational Therapy career while making a meaningful difference to people’s lives? Join HCRG Care Group for a one‑of‑a‑kind specialist rotation that will build your core skills, expand your specialist knowledge, and give you the chance to work across a range of dynamic rehabilitation services in Bath and North East Somerset.
About the Rotation
You’ll complete 9‑month rotations across a variety of specialist services, which may include:
- Falls and Parkinson’s Clinic
- Community Neuro & Stroke Service – Early Supported Discharge (ESD)
- St Martins Hospital ward
- Bath Reablement Team
- Learning Disabilities, Autism & Neurodiversity Team
Some services operate 7 days a week, including bank holidays. You’ll deliver interventions in clinic, on the ward, or directly in patients’ homes across the local area.
What Makes This Opportunity Special
Our specialist teams provide high‑quality, evidence‑based, multi‑professional rehabilitation, working closely with:
- Social care colleagues
- Specialist wheelchair and seating services
- Community and voluntary organisations
This rotation is a fantastic opportunity to develop both strong foundational OT practice and specialist clinical expertise, supported every step of the way.
Support & Professional Development
You will benefit from:
- A robust supervision structure
- Regular team meetings based at St Martins Hospital
- A strong commitment to ongoing professional development
- Access to remote working in the community
Main Responsibilities
- Manage your own caseload independently with support from Band 6 Occupational Therapists.
- Carry out standardised and service‑led assessments to create individualised treatment plans.
- Deliver evidence‑based Occupational Therapy interventions and evaluate outcomes.
- Communicate effectively with team members and other organisations involved in patient care.
- Work with service users and carers towards shared goals, offering advice, education and signposting.
- Assess for and provide equipment or adaptations to support daily living and reduce risk.
- Apply safe moving and handling techniques within all clinical practice.
- Maintain accurate clinical records and required patient statistics.
- Adhere to national, organisational and professional guidelines, including the OT Code of Conduct.
- Participate in audits, quality improvement and service development projects.
- Take part in supervision and support the learning of students and support workers.
- Engage in in‑service training and keep up to date with evidence‑based practice and relevant guidelines (e.g., RCOT and NICE guidance for Falls and Parkinson’s).
- Be prepared for some weekend or evening working depending on the rotation.
Essential
- HCPC‑registered Occupational Therapist with an OT Degree/Diploma.
- Evidence of continued professional development and relevant clinical experience.
- Experience working in multidisciplinary teams and with other agencies.
- Clinical skills and knowledge in falls management, standardised assessments, outcome measures and adaptive equipment.
- Experience assessing physical, cognitive and social abilities.
- Awareness of neurological conditions, including Stroke and Parkinson’s.
- Experience supporting colleagues through supervision.
- Knowledge of relevant health and social care legislation.
- Full driving licence, access to a vehicle and appropriate business insurance.
- Motivated to complete further training and committed to ongoing professional development.
Desirable
- Experience working with older people and in falls prevention.
- Experience supporting people with neurological conditions.
- Awareness of relevant best‑practice guidelines.
- Community or lone‑working experience.
- Experience in acute or community hospital settings.
- Strong activity analysis skills and experience leading group sessions.
Package Description
As an Occupational Therapist, you will be part of our valued team in our BSW Service, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- £31,049 - £37,796 FTE (Band 5 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 life’s 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 you’re 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. We’re 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 doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
As you’d 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.
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