Job Introduction
Help people with learning disabilities and autism move with confidence and achieve greater independence every day.
Join our BSW Learning Disabilities, Autism and Neurodiversity team as a Specialist Occupational Therapist and make a real difference to adults with learning disabilities and autism across the region. You’ll be part of a warm, supportive and county‑wide multidisciplinary team that’s dedicated to delivering high‑quality, person‑centred community care.
You’ll be based at the Orbital Shopping Park in North Swindon, a vibrant hub with plenty of shops, cafés and amenities right on your doorstep. The area offers easy access to residential communities, green spaces, leisure facilities and good transport links. Whether you’re commuting or relocating, Swindon gives you a great balance of convenience, community and outdoor space.
This is an excellent opportunity to grow your clinical expertise, contribute to service development, and help shape how people with profound and complex needs experience occupational therapy.
Package Description
You will join a friendly, supportive team where multidisciplinary working is at the heart of what we do. Colleagues describe us as collaborative, compassionate and always willing to share knowledge and ideas. You’ll have the autonomy to manage your caseload, with the support of the Clinical Lead Occupational Therapist to help you continue developing your specialist skills.
As a Band 6 Specialist Physiotherapist, you’ll benefit from:
- NHS Agenda for Change Band 6 salary with an NHS pension
- Membership of My Reward Hub for discounts, cashback and voucher offers
- Access to your wages as you earn them
- Online and in‑person wellbeing support including mental health services, activity challenges, financial wellbeing tools, coaching and counselling
- Access to e-learning, bespoke career pathways and professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ Learning Enterprise team
- An open, just culture with ringfenced innovation funding each year
- The pride of working for an organisation where most rated services are Good or Outstanding
Main Responsibilities
- Manage a specialist caseload and deliver evidence based OT assessments and interventions.
- Create and review person centred care plans that support individual goals.
- Use core OT skills including postural management, sensory approaches, manual handling and risk assessment.
- Communicate effectively with clients, carers and partner agencies to support understanding and decision making.
- Provide training to carers and professionals based on identified needs.
- Support people to access mainstream services and community opportunities.
- Maintain accurate records and uphold HCPC and RCOT standards.
- Supervise and guide junior staff and assist with day to day service planning.
- Work flexibly across community settings and manage risk in different environments.
Person Specification
Essential
- Degree/Diploma in Occupational Therapy
- HCPC registration
- Post‑registration experience working with adults with learning disabilities and/or profound and complex needs
- Experience of complex problem‑solving in the community
- Skills in a broad range of OT interventions relevant to the role
- Experience of multidisciplinary working
- Ability to supervise, delegate and support junior staff
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to work autonomously and manage your own caseload
- Valid driving licence and access to transport
Desirable
- BAOT/RCOT membership
- Training in Sensory Integration, or willingness to complete it
- Postgraduate training relevant to the role
- Experience of evaluating practice through audit
- Experience with NHS CHC framework
- Leadership and teaching experience
- Experience of prescribing equipment for profound and complex needs
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.
