Job Introduction
Make a Real Difference Every Day - Join Our Therapy Team at Warminster Community Hospital
Are you an Occupational Therapist or Physiotherapist ready to make meaningful impact in your community? On Longleat Ward — our dynamic 25‑bed general rehabilitation unit — you’ll play a vital role in helping patients regain independence, dignity, and quality of life.
Our patients come from three acute hospitals and present with a diverse range of conditions, including complex orthopaedics, neurological presentations, musculoskeletal needs, frailty, dementia, and end-of-life care. No two days are the same — and your clinical curiosity and compassion will thrive here.
As part of our multi‑disciplinary team, you’ll work collaboratively with dedicated health and social care professionals who go above and beyond for the people we serve. You’ll also benefit from regular in‑service training, peer support, and a strong competency development framework designed to help you grow and excel.
If you’re passionate about delivering exceptional care and want to join an innovative, forward‑thinking team committed to making a difference — we’d love to hear from you.
What You’ll Be Doing
As an Occupational Therapist or Physiotherapist with Wiltshire Health and Care, you will:
Deliver high‑quality, patient‑centred therapy
- Provide safe, effective and evidence‑based OT/PT assessment and treatment.
- Work as an autonomous practitioner while knowing when to seek clinical support.
- Apply national and local guidelines, including RCOT/CSP standards, to ensure safe, legally compliant practice and accurate record keeping.
Provide holistic, impactful patient care
- Complete comprehensive assessments, using strong clinical reasoning to form diagnoses and treatment plans aligned with patient goals.
- Use a range of therapeutic skills, including manual techniques, outcome measures, and equipment assessments.
- Communicate clearly and sensitively with patients, families and colleagues — including those with communication challenges or requiring a translator.
- Support patients to understand and engage with their treatment, promoting independence and self‑management.
Work collaboratively and continue developing
- Integrate fully with the wider multi‑disciplinary team across Wiltshire.
- Maintain up‑to‑date clinical knowledge and competency in a broad range of therapeutic interventions.
- Contribute to ongoing service improvements and share learning within the team
Essential Requirements
- HCPC registration
- Professional qualification in Occupational Therapy or Physiotherapy
- Ongoing CPD and reflective practice demonstrated
- Experience working within the NHS
Desirable Requirements
- Membership with RCOT or CSP
- Experience in ward-based rehabilitation, neurology, or community settings
- Completion of accredited training courses
- Broad clinical experience across cardiopulmonary, MSK, neurology, and community areas
Package Description
As a Bank Occupational Therapist and Physiotherapist, you will be part of our valued team in our BSW Service, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- 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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