Job Introduction
We are looking for a part‑time Band 6 Occupational Therapist (15 hours per week) to join our Community Neuro and Stroke Service – Planned Neuro Team.
In this role, you will deliver specialist, person‑centred assessment and rehabilitation for adults living with long‑term neurological conditions. You will support service users to achieve meaningful, individualised goals, promote independence and wellbeing, and help prevent secondary complications.
The role involves visiting people in their homes or within the community and working closely with family members, carers, and wider health and social care professionals.
About the Service
The Planned Neuro Team provides community-based rehabilitation and therapy for adults with complex long‑term neurological conditions across Bath and North East Somerset. Our multidisciplinary team includes Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, Speech and Language Therapists, Specialist Nurses, Rehabilitation Assistants and a Clinical Neuropsychologist.
We work collaboratively with health, social care and voluntary sector partners to deliver coordinated, person‑centred support.
The service operates Monday to Friday between 08:00 and 17:00. Interventions are delivered in service users’ homes, places of residence or local community settings. The team is based at St. Martin’s Hospital in Bath.
In this role, you will:
- Manage your own caseload, planning and prioritising work effectively to meet service and patient needs.
- Receive regular supervision and professional support from the Clinical Specialist Occupational Therapist, Team Lead and other senior clinicians.
- Be encouraged and supported to develop your skills through ongoing personal and professional development opportunities.
Essential Criteria
- Professional qualification in Occupational Therapy.
- Registration with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC).
- Valid UK driving licence and access to your own vehicle to travel across BANES for community visits.
- Experience delivering rehabilitation as part of a multidisciplinary team.
- Previous experience working in a community setting and supporting people with neurological conditions.
- Evidence of relevant post‑graduate learning and continued professional development.
- Ability to demonstrate person‑centred, evidence‑based clinical practice.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to relate to individuals in complex and sometimes challenging situations.
- Ability to work effectively as part of a team, use your own initiative, and adapt to changing service needs.
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:
- £38,682 - £46,580 FTE (Band 6 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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