Specialist Community Occupational Therapist

Main area Specialist Community Occupational Therapist Grade NHS AfC: Band 6 Contract Permanent Hours Part time - 30 hours per week Job ref 338-7572568-25

Employer Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Whitby Community Town Whitby Salary £38,682 - £46,580 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 28/12/2025 23:59

Specialist Community Occupational Therapist

NHS AfC: Band 6

Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust are proud award winners of the HSJ Provider of the Year 2019

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Specialist Occupational therapist to work in whitby community therapy team.

To be accountable in own area of clinical responsibility, ensuring the delivery of evidence based clinical interventions and practice for a specialist caseload in a variety of setting's

To follow the Occupational Therapy process / pathway with patients within standard operating procedures and contribute to care planning as a member of the multi-disciplinary team.

To continue to demonstrate specialist clinical skills in practice and provide support, training, and advice regarding the delivery of care in partnership with patients, relatives, staff, managers, and externally with other agencies.

Main duties of the job

• To help people who have difficulties carrying out day-to-day activities because of a disability, illness, trauma, ageing, and a range of long-term conditions.
• To support the Urgent Community Response service in Whitby, aiding prevention of unnecessary hospital admissions and facilitating early discharges from hospital. Also future opportunities to undertake duties in intermediate care once established.
• To delegate intervention to the appropriate staff members to enable evidence-based patient care and promote patient flow.
• Provide occupational therapy advice to other disciplines and provide training and competency support to the wider team.

Working for our organisation

We are an award winning and CQC rated good health and social care Trust delivering integrated services across Hull, East and North Yorkshire. Find out more on our website

We are a forward thinking and dynamic Trust with a real commitment to staff development. We value our colleagues and invest in them to ensure they have the right skills to deliver outstanding care.

We are proud to score above or equal to the average for all NHS People Promise theme areas demonstrating our commitment to improve the experience of working in the NHS for everyone. Wherever you work we know you will receive a warm welcome and all the support you’ll need to get you started.

We recognise the positive value of diversity and promotes equality whilst challenging discrimination. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.

Work life balance is about having influence and flexibility over when, where and how you work. If the work pattern for this role does not meet your needs, we welcome an application and are happy to discuss working arrangements that differ from those advertised.

We offer a unique range of benefits that go above and beyond other NHS Trusts including an enhanced leave package and health and wellbeing support.

From city to countryside, market towns to moors you’ll find a place to call home including some of the most affordable places to live in the UK.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further information with regards to this vacancy please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification

Person specification

Qualifications and Knowledge

• Diploma or Degree in Occupational Therapy
• Full understanding/application of relevant clinical practice/standards/audit within identified clinical area
• Specialist understanding of relevant clinical practice, standards and protocols within identified clinical area.
• Evidence of continuing professional development (CPD) relevant to the clinical area at a specialist level of care
• Ability to effectively commute between the organisations various sites
• Ability to manage daily operations and maintain a safe working environment
• Previous experience working as a community based Occupational Therapist
• Teaching qualification or equivalent presentation skills/training experience
• Evidence of continuing learning and CPD

Experience

• Experience of case load management within specialist service area, some of which may be complex
• Evidence of continuing professional development (CPD) relevant to the clinical area at a specialist level of care
• Working knowledge of Trust policies and procedures.

Skills

• Effective inter-personal skills and experience in supervising and fieldwork education/mentorship
• Able to demonstrate effective communication skills and work flexibly within the team/service
• Good time management and organisational skills
• Ability to motivate staff to embrace change
• Working knowledge of Trust policies and procedures
• Ability to manage daily operations and maintain a safe working environment
• Previous experience working as a community based Occupational Therapist

Our recruitment team have shared their top tips to support you when you are ready to make your application. Please ensure that you read this before starting your application.

Please note that if there is a high volume of applications we reserve the right to close the vacancy earlier than the advertised closing date.

This post will be subject to successful completion of a 6 month probationary period where applicable, further details would be included within any offer letter.

Where operationally feasible the Trust supports agile working, there is an expectation of attendance of 1 day per week at a Trust site as a minimum operationally. Unless specifically stated in the advert that a role will have home as the base of work, all roles will have the option to work from a Trust base if remote working is not for you.

If required for the post the ability to commute within the Trusts geographical area with access to the appropriate means of transport would be essential.

We will apply for a Disclosure from the Disclosure & Barring Service for the successful candidate if this is required for the post.Anyone applying for a position which involves a regulated activity will require an enhanced Disclosure & Barring check and that the disclosure will, where appropriate to the role, include information against the Independent Safeguarding Authority barred lists for working with children or working with adults or both.

IMPORTANT: Should your application be successfully shortlisted, you will be contacted to attend an interview electronically to the email address provided at the time of the application. It is important therefore, that you CHECK YOUR EMAILS/NHS JOBS ACCOUNT on a regular basis.

If you are not contacted by the Trust within six weeks of the closing date of the vacancy, your application will have been unsuccessful on this occasion. We would however like to thank you for the interest you have shown in the Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust.

On 1 July 2024, NHS England strengthened its commitment to supporting employees already working for the NHS who wish to embark upon an apprenticeship to aide career development.

To ensure these staff do not experience a detriment to their basic pay, the salary for duration of the apprenticeship will be consistent with their current pay or the rate paid to other apprentices, whichever is higher (subject to eligibility criteria)

This change supports exiting NHS employees to undertake a formal apprenticeship programme which, upon completion, would qualify them for a role where the evaluated pay band is the same or higher than the band of their current post.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.