Job summary
Are you an enthusiastic and motivated Occupational Therapist looking to develop your skills within a fast-paced community and urgent care environment? We are seeking a committed Band 6 Occupational Therapist to join our Discharge to Assess (D2A) Service, supporting individuals to leave hospital safely and continue their assessment and rehabilitation in their own home.

This is an exciting opportunity to work as part of an MDT focused on reducing hospital length of stay, promoting independence, and preventing unnecessary admissions and readmissions. You will play a key role in delivering person-centred assessments and interventions that enable people to achieve the best possible outcomes within their home environment.

Working alongside community providers of reablement services, Physiotherapists, Therapy support workers, District Nurses and Social Care assess as part of a MDT approach.

To work autonomously within the community, liaising with other health and social care professionals, to enable people to facilitate discharge from the community hospital to return to their homes in the community following illness or disability.

To provide high quality OT assessments, providing direct rehabilitation where necessary and managing patients with a range of conditions.

We have 2 posts available - 1 across the City-West localities and 1 across the City-East localities.

Main duties of the job
Complete holistic occupational therapy assessments within patients' own homes following hospital discharge. Assess functional abilities, activities of daily living, cognition, mobility, environmental factors and risks. Develop personalised rehabilitation and reablement plans that maximise independence and wellbeing. Recommend and arrange appropriate equipment, adaptations and support services. Work closely with hospital teams, primary care, community services, social care and voluntary sector partners to ensure seamless transitions of care. Support the prevention of avoidable hospital admissions and readmissions. Manage a varied caseload, prioritising effectively within a dynamic community setting. Provide supervision and support to junior staff, students and support workers where appropriate. Contribute to service development, quality improvement initiatives and integrated working across health and social care.

You will need to be able to; triage cases and prioritise cases to effectively caseload manage, display an organised and disciplined manner, work remotely and autonomously, be decisive and a team player, maintaining a good team working rapport daily. Remotely supervise team members, display a passion for community rehabilitation.

About us
Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire NHS FT, the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.

Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.

We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care we would want for our family and friends.

More than 3,500 people work for the Trust. They tell us it is a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.

We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.

Our values, Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence, are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time, all the time.

Details
Date posted: 16 October 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 6
Salary: £38,682 to £46,580 a year pa pro rata
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time
Reference number: 229-IC-8306706-A
Job locations: Vaughan Building, Ruckhall lane, Belmont, Hereford, HR1 9RP, United Kingdom

Person Specification
Education and Qualifications

• Degree in Occupational Therapy
• HCPC Registration
• Post Graduate specialist qualification or significant post graduate experience

Skills, Knowledge and Abilities

• Broad and specialist knowledge of relevant patient conditions and therapy interventions
• Demonstration of knowledge of core and specialist Therapy skills
• Evidence of ongoing CPD in relevant area
• Experience of multi-disciplinary communication, assessments and record keeping
• Computer Skills including word processing and e-mail

Experience

• NHS or equivalent experience e.g. in inpatient areas, acute or community services
• Experience of using or fitting adaptive equipment

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 contact details
Occupational Therapy Team Lead: Amy Stanton, Amy.Stanton@wvt.nhs.uk, 07971281050

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