Occupational Therapist
The closing date is 19 October 2025
Job summary
We have an exciting opportunity for an Occupational Therapist to join our Integrated Community Team (ICT) based in Forest & Tewkesbury, Newent, Staunton Locality. If you are a newly qualified OT or an OT who is keen to work within our Home first and Reablement service within community health services this could be the job for you.
You will be part of a multi-disciplinary team working within peoples homes, with patients who have a variety of health conditions, including palliative care, complex neurology, long-term conditions, stroke, and frailty.
The ICT consists of Occupational Therapists, Community Nurses, Physiotherapists, and a Home First/Reablement service. We work closely with a range of teams from within our own organisation and key local system partners including, Adult Social Care, GPs, Residential homes, Acute hospitals, Community hospitals, housing and voluntary organisations.
The ethos of the team is a rehabilitation, person-led approach to recovery and self-management, to ensure we offer care close to home, avoiding unnecessary admissions to bed based services. Our philosophy is that supported self-management is key to personalised and positive outcomes for people.
This role is offered on a permanent basis. The hours are full time 37.5 hours per week.
Main duties of the job
We are a Technologically SMART Trust, offering a 'Mobile office' model providing you with all the equipment needed to carry out your role in comfort whilst on the road. SMART working results in staff safety due to live system and instant access to patient notes and past interactions whilst on the move.
To excel in this role, you will require excellent communication skills, the courage to make clinical decisions and a willingness to develop your potential. You will require current HCPC registration, post-registration experience is helpful but not essential and we have an excellent preceptorship programme for newly qualified Occupational Therapists.
In all aspects of our interventions we promote personalised care, working with our patients to identify what matters to them, promoting independence and enabling them to achieve their goals.
This post requires the post holder to be able to undertake all statutory and mandatory training and post holders must be able to undertake physical interventions. Fitness for physical intervention will be assessed by Occupational Health.
A valid UK driving licence plus the use of own transport for business purposes is essential. For qualifying staff the Trust has a Lease Car Scheme in place and also offers a popular Salary Sacrifice Car Scheme with our partner Tusker.
The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.
About us
We have a skilled and dedicated workforce of over 5000 colleagues working in a diverse range of services over 55 sites and within people's homes. We strive to enable a welcoming workplace culture that builds and celebrates civility, inclusivity and diversity, while providing a sense of belonging and trust.
Annual staff surveys, regular Pulse surveys and other engagement opportunities provide our people with lots of opportunity to tell us about their experiences of working with us. In the latest staff survey, 61% of colleagues gave us their views. It was great to hear that:
- 72% of colleagues would recommend the Trust as a place to work, ranking us 1st for Provider Trusts in the South West region on this question.
- 76% would recommend the standard of care provided in our services if a friend or relative needed treatment, also ranking us 1st in the South West region.
- 81% said that care of patients and service users is the Trust's priority, compared with an average in comparable NHS Trusts in England of 64%.
This high-level overview shows we are in a healthy position, with higher scores than average for comparable organisations, alongside a great response rate, indicating good staff engagement. However, we also know we have plenty of room for improvement in many areas. To that end, we continue to prioritise and invest in our commitment to genuinely becoming a Great Place to Work with consistent top-quartile performance in the annual staff survey and Pulse surveys.
Details
Date posted
09 October 2025
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 5
Salary
£31,049 to £37,796 a year per annum
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
327-25-848
Job locations
Forest & TNS Integrated Community Team
Ow Bist Forest Community Space
Dockham Road, Cinderford
GL14 2AQ
Employer details
Employer name
Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Forest & TNS Integrated Community Team
Ow Bist Forest Community Space
Dockham Road, Cinderford
GL14 2AQ
Employer's website
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