Job Introduction
Are you a confident, dedicated, and compassionate Band 5 Occupational Therapist looking to take the next step in your career? Are you committed to clinical excellence and passionate about working in a team where staff are genuinely valued every day?
We are seeking an enthusiastic Occupational Therapist to join our dynamic team, delivering high-quality care to patients in the community. In this role, you'll provide occupational therapy assessments, treatments, and advice in patients' homes or other relevant settings, all with the aim of promoting independence and overall well-being — in line with professional standards and protocols.
Working closely with multi-disciplinary teams across health, social care, and the voluntary sector, you will deliver personalised, evidence-based care while respecting the privacy, dignity, and confidentiality of all patients. You’ll support both patients and their families with compassion and professionalism, championing best practices and contributing to the continuous improvement of our services.
Based in Luton, you will collaborate with Physiotherapists, Nurses, fellow Occupational Therapists, and Rehab Assistants to develop and implement care plans that encourage independent living and help prevent hospital admissions.
This is a full-time position (37.5 hours per week) with a rota covering shifts across 7 days, between the hours of 8am and 8pm.
Main Responsibility
As a Band 6 Occupational Therapist you will work interchangeably and collaboratively in response to demand and capacity.. Your main responsibilities will be:
- To be accountable for assessing, interpreting, planning and implementing Occupational Therapy treatment and care to patients within professional guidelines, with the support of team members and Team Leader.
- To undertake assessments, care planning and evaluation of patients
- To ensure work efficiently considering clinical and team priorities
- Develop and implement individualised treatment plans keeping the patient at the centre, ensuring patient and carer participation in decision making.
- To act as an autonomous clinician accountable for your own clinical tasks.
- To interpret situations acting and referring on appropriately.
- To enable patients to reach their optimum level of independence.
- To deliver clinical care for a variety of patients.
- To work within the integrated multi-professional team.
- To use recognised outcome measures to evaluate the effect of therapy interventions and ensure the treatment programmes are progressing appropriately.
- To establish good relationships with patients promoting and empowering a lifelong model of self-care and appropriate activity to maintain good health.
- This job will involve frequent exposure to unpleasant working conditions e.g. Bodily fluids, including sputum, unpleasant smells and occasional exposure to hostility in the form of verbal and physical aggression.
Please see job description attached for full list of responsibilities.
The Ideal Candidate
Qualifications
- Occupational Therapist Degree
- HCPC Registration
Experience
- Highly developed professional knowledge base, supported by educational development and different work environments.
- Knowledge of current political drivers in relation to health and social care issues
- Highly developed knowledge of general management practice, including organisational performance management, finance, human resources and equality and diversity.
Skills & Knowledge
- Relevant Band 5 Occupational Therapy experience
- Experience of multidisciplinary working
- Understanding & involvement of Clinical Governance and risk assessment
- Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to build and maintain relationships with other health and social care professionals, patients, carers, and the public.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Desirable
- Clinical experience in different settings eg acute/community
- Community experience
- Professional knowledge acquired through degree or equivalent, plus short specialist courses, experience to post-graduate equivalent diploma level
Special Requirements
- To be able to cover shifts 7 days a week 8am-8pm
- To work cross site
Package Description
As a Band 6 Occupational Therapist, you’ll be part of our valued team at Luton Intermediate Care Rehabilitation Service in Luton, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- Band 6 AFC salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
- Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location
- Plentiful on site-parking
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday 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
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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