Job summary
Community Rehabilitation and Hospital at Home Services

Agenda for Change: Band 6
Location: Alton Community Rehabilitation Hospital, North Hospital @ Home and Mid Community Therapy Services
Hours: Full Time (Part Time Considered)
Contract: Permanent

Join Our Team and Make a Difference Every Day

We are looking for an enthusiastic, motivated, and forward-thinking Band 6 Occupational Therapists to join our dynamic rotational service across our Community Rehabilitation Hospital, Community Therapy Team, and Hospital at Home Service.

This is an exciting opportunity for an Occupational Therapist wishing to develop specialist skills across a range of settings while working within a supportive and innovative multidisciplinary team (MDT).

You will play a key role in supporting patients to maximise independence, prevent unnecessary hospital admissions, and facilitate safe discharge and rehabilitation within their own homes and local communities.

Our Vision
Our teams are committed to delivering high-quality rehabilitation and integrated care that enables people to remain independent, recover closer to home, and avoid unnecessary hospital admissions. We work together to provide compassionate, person-centred care that supports patients to achieve their goals and live well in their communities.

If you are passionate about rehabilitation, integrated working, and supporting patients to thrive at home, we would love to hear from you. Apply today and help shape the future of community rehabilitation and hospital avoidance services.

Main duties of the job
You will work across our Community Rehabilitation Hospital, Community Therapy Team and Hospital at Home Service, providing assessment, treatment and rehabilitation for patients following illness, injury or deconditioning.

Working within a multidisciplinary team of physiotherapists, nurses, rehabilitation assistants, medical staff and social care colleagues, you will help patients maximise independence, recovery and safe discharge.

You will assess and treat patients in their own homes, recommend equipment, adaptations and interventions, support admission avoidance, early supported discharge and rehabilitation closer to home, and contribute to integrated care planning, risk assessment and recovery for patients who may otherwise require inpatient care.

Main Duties

• Manage complex caseloads across community and rehab settings.
• Undertake holistic assessments and treatment planning.
• Work with multidisciplinary teams to achieve patient-centred outcomes.
• Support hospital avoidance and timely discharge planning
• Provide supervision for junior staff, assistants and students
• Participate in service development, quality improvement and clinical governance
• Contribute to integrated health and social care pathways

Why Join Us

• Supportive MDT
• Varied rotational opportunities
• Regular supervision and professional development
• Leadership and specialist training opportunities
• Service improvement projects
• Flexible working where service needs allow
• Great opportunity to develop skills across a range of community rehabilitation services

About us
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.

Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.

We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.

Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence.

Qualifications
Essential

• Appropriate professional qualification (Occupational Therapist) with full HCPC registration
• Degree level award (level 6) plus post graduate experience
• Able to demonstrate a good command of the English Language both written and verbal
• Computer Literate in both data entry and communicating via IT - emails and report writing

Desirable

• Further education training eg: external courses/masters degree or equivalent experience gained by undertaking on-going personal development and training.
• Management/Leadership Qualification/development programme

Experience
Essential

• Experience, underpinned by knowledge of working with and understanding the complex needs of patients in a primary care/community setting.
• Have a broad range of clinical skills, including assessment and treatments of a variety of conditions including neuro, orthopaedic, MSK and elderly.
• Involved in the implementation and management of change.
• Experience of working with long-term conditions and frailty.
• Demonstrates organisational skills: including the ability to make decisions and to prioritise.
• Ability to understand and interpret research findings/evidence-based care and apply to practice.
• Participation and comprehension of clinical and professional supervision.

Desirable

• Experience of initiating or participating in quality improvement project relating to clinical practice
• Experience working within Hospital at home or Urgent Community Response Services
• Experience in admission avoidance pathways

Additional Criteria
Essential

• Knowledge of current clinical and professional issues relevant to the field of occupational therapy.
• Evidence of ability to perform multidisciplinary tasks and work across multi disciplinary boundaries.
• Experienced decision making to inform clinical reasoning approaches when managing complex situations, synthesising information from multiple sources to make appropriate, evidence-based judgements and/or diagnoses.
• Leadership, and communication skills, including the ability to prioritise competing tasks in a highly complex and dynamic environment.
• Ability to develop positive relationship with a range of internal and external stakeholders.
• Confidence in the application and analysis of data and audit processes to provide effective clinical governance.
• Demonstrate the required behaviour in keeping with the Trust values.
• Organisational and self management skills including those relating to own workload and those of others in an unpredictable environment.
• Good communication skills including to communicate complex, sensitive or confidential information in an appropriate manner; to liaise effectively; to understand and disseminate multifaceted information.
• Evidence of the ability to deliver learning sessions (formal or informal) to groups of professionals
• To hold a current UK driving license with business insurance cover.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

Employer details
Employer name: Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Address: Alton Community Hospital, Chawton Park Road, Alton, Hampshire, GU34 1RJ, United Kingdom
Employer's website: https://hiowhealthcare.nhs.uk/

For questions about the job, contact:
Community Therapy, Clinical Services Manager, Katrina Mitchell, Katrina.mitchell6@nhs.net, 07920478586

Closing date: 11 November 2026
Reference number: 348-MNH-12970
Date posted: 28 October 2026

Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone. We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process. Apply through our website.