Be the Occupational Therapist Patients Need - Driving Proactive Frailty Care in Primary Care
Are you passionate about delivering proactive, preventative care that keeps people well and independent in their communities?
We are looking for a dedicated Occupational Therapist to join our forward-thinking, multidisciplinary primary care team on a fixed term contract until 31/03/2027. We are happy to consider applications on a full or part-time basis.
Occupational therapy in primary care enables earlier intervention for patients experiencing functional decline. By focusing on independence, rehabilitation and environmental support, OTs help patients remain safely in their homes while reducing demand on urgent and hospital services.
The successful candidate will deliver home-based assessment and intervention for patients living with frailty, focusing on functional independence, activities of daily living (ADLs), and environmental risk management. As the role includes home visits, you'll need to be a car driver with access to a vehicle.
The role centres on improving a patient's ability to safely manage at home, through targeted intervention addressing functional decline, cognitive challenges, and environmental barriers.
Main duties of the job
Working as part of the Primary Care Network multidisciplinary team, the Occupational Therapist will support proactive frailty management, contributing to shared care planning and coordinated, person-centred care across primary, community, and social care services.
This role involves regular home visiting across the PCN footprint and therefore requires travel between patient locations. The successful candidate will play a key part in enabling the PCN to move from identifying high-risk patients to actively managing them within the community.
By working proactively across home, care home and community settings, the Occupational Therapist will target patients identified through frailty registers and risk stratification tools, deliver early intervention to prevent functional decline and crisis and reduce unplanned hospital admissions and avoidable A&E attendances. The successful candidate will support safe discharge and reduce readmissions, improve patient independence, safety and quality of life at home and contribute to improved system flow across primary, community and acute services
You will support the PCN to prevent avoidable hospital admissions, improve functional independence and ability to manage at home, reduce falls risk through environmental and behavioural intervention, support safe discharge and recovery at home and reduce GP workload through specialist functional assessment.
About us
Promni Health is a specialist clinical workforce and service support partner working with the NHS to help meet local workforce and service needs across primary care, community and neighbourhood health systems.
Our services are recognised as best-in-class for our industry, recently winning the 'Best in Primary Care & Diagnostics' LaingBuisson Awards in 2023 and 2025. We were HSJ Independent Healthcare Provider Finalists in 2025 and 2026, including receiving recognition for our Outstanding Contribution to Preventative Care, and HealthInvestor Award Finalists in 2026.
We directly employ over 400 clinicians including First Contact Practitioners, Enhanced Practice Nurses, Podiatrists, Occupational Therapists and Advanced Practitioners, supporting over 1,000 GP practices and a patient population exceeding 9 million.
It really is a great place to work, reasons to join us include:
- A fast-growing, award-winning clinical organisation that genuinely puts people first
- The only MSK organisation in the UK certified as a Great Place to Work
- 12.5+ days of protected CPD and supervision time each year
- Funded development opportunities
Essential requirements
- Degree or MSc in Occupational Therapy
- HCPC registered
- RCOT membership
- Experience working with older adults or people living with frailty, including functional decline and loss of independence, activities of daily living (ADL) impairment, falls risk and home safety and cognitive or behavioural factors impacting independence
- Post-hospital discharge support: Experience of functional assessment and rehabilitation, strong communication and MDT working skills, ability to work autonomously within a community setting
- Full clean driving licence and access to own vehicle
Pay: £42,000.00-£56,500.00 per year
Benefits:
Work Location: In person
