Senior Community Occupational Therapist: Sponsorship Available

North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

We are looking for an Occupational Therapist that values innovation and person -centred rehabilitation to join our supportive Community Rehabilitation Team. Keswick & Solway ICC Covers area of outstanding beauty from the Solway Plain to the Lake District National Park.

This post would be ideal for an experienced Band 5 wishing to gain community or Band 6 experience as well as experienced Band 6 staff

The team supports hospital discharge, works to prevent hospital admission, and offers community rehabilitation in Patient’s homes or our established Rehabilitation Centre. The team also offers anticipatory care through Your Health matters and person centred support vis the Home Care Practitioner Service.

This role requires enthusiasm for holistic practice and utilising models of occupational therapy to assist individuals to achieve their occupational goals. Regular programme of In service training will help you to develop and to share your skills and expertise with others. An interest in personalised care handling is required but training can be provided

Keswick & Solway ICC embraces a compassionate culture that embraces upstream thinking, collaboration and staff development. We offer a Compassionate Induction with colleagues from across our Neighbourhood

Informal visits are welcomed and please call for any further information.

Main duties of the job

To undertake assessment, clinical and functional diagnosis of adults/older adults using a range of specialist standardised assessments and clinical observation skills across physical, sensory, cognitive, emotional, psychological and social domains.

To provide advice in the formulation or progress of a medical diagnosis and to support family members through this process guided by specialist theoretical knowledge and enabled by establishing a therapeutic alliance.

Contribute to the MDT’s understanding of the family system and its impact on the patient, the patient’s present circumstances, and the impact of that on the family system.

To formulate agreed specialist individual and/or group treatment plans and goals based on advanced clinical reasoning skills with the adult etc, taking in to account the domains assessed.

To provide specialist occupational therapy treatment interventions in a variety of environments

To provide spontaneous and planned specialist advice, teaching and instruction to others in, to promote understanding of the aims of occupational therapy and to ensure a consistent and coordinated approach across the AHP service.

Interventions regularly include the assessment, evaluation and prescription of specialised equipment for the adults. Standards for offering specialist advice for its safe use and the aims and purpose of the equipment apply as above.

Work in collaboration with other relevant services making appropriate onward referrals

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Degree in Occupational Therapy
  • HCPC registered
  • Member of the Royal College of Occupational Therapists

Desirable

  • Evidence of attendance at relevant post graduate courses

Knowledge and Experience

Essential

  • Completion of core junior rotations (Respiratory/neurological/musculo skeletal/elderly care)
  • Evidence of Continuing Professional Development
  • Experience of working within the NHS
  • Good Knowledge of Evidence Based Clinical Practice within Rehabilitation
  • Good Knowledge of Continuing Professional Development/Lifelong Learning Knowledge and understanding of Clinical Governance including Risk Management
  • Understanding of Professional Code of Conduct and confidentiality
  • Knowledge of key NHS drivers for change and implications for Occupational Therapy

Desirable

  • Previous experience of working at a Band 6 level
  • Experience of working within a community setting
  • Experience of working within a multi-disciplinary team Teaching / Mentoring of healthcare professionals
  • Knowledge of management of patients with long-term conditions and fall
  • Knowledge of clinical audit and outcome measures, and their use in service improvement

Skills and Aptitudes

Essential

  • Ability to communicate effectively
  • Ability to work as part of a team
  • Good organisational and time management skills
  • Ability to organise workload of self and others
  • Ability to motivate self and others
  • Relevant practical occupational therapy skills
  • The post holder needs good IT skills, the ability to input data, communicate via email and search for evidence-based practice
  • Take an active part in training for personal and professional development
  • Willing to actively take part in training of others

Other Requirements

Essential

  • Patient focused
  • Flexible
  • Reliable
  • Friendly and approachable
  • Able to travel independently, (and at times) transport patients and /or equipment across a large rural area the locality
  • Must have full clean UK driving licence and access to own transport, including business insurance
  • Able to work 7 days per week

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Closing Date: 28 September 2026

To apply for this job please visit apps.trac.jobs.