Job Introduction
Occupational Therapist - Band 5
Swindon Intermediate Care Centre
Full time - 37.5 Hours per week
We are seeking a highly motivated and innovative Occupational Therapist to join the Therapy Team in Swindon Intermediate Care Centre.
This post involves rotating between the Stroke and General Rehabilitation ward and General Rehabilitation Ward within Swindon Intermediate Care Centre (SWICC).
This is an exciting opportunity to use your stroke rehabilitation skills, including cognitive rehab, Upper limb and functional rehabilitation. You will be working within the stroke and fractured NOF pathway patients but also work with other general rehabilitation patients.
SwICC is a purpose built 60 bedded inpatient rehabilitation unit on the Great Western Hospital site with access to excellent facilities, including a therapy gym and therapy rehab kitchen.
You will be supported by a Band 6 and 7 Occupational therapists and work very closely with the Band 6 and 7 Physiotherapists. Feedback from staff is that the whole SWICC therapy team are a very supportive team and always willing to support and help each other, and this does sometimes require covering across services when required. We are keen to ensure the continued development of our staff and as such there are both internal and external opportunities for training and development
Clinical Responsibilities
-
Take professional and legal responsibility for your own practice and manage your own caseload safely.
-
Complete high‑quality Occupational Therapy assessments, develop treatment plans, deliver interventions, and adapt your approach as needed.
-
Communicate clearly with patients and carers to gain consent, support decision‑making, and encourage engagement in treatment.
-
Work effectively with colleagues across all professions and external agencies to support patient goals and safe, timely discharge.
-
Maintain patient confidentiality and follow all organisational and RCOT clinical guidelines.
-
Keep accurate, comprehensive electronic patient records in line with professional standards.
-
Hold a valid driving licence with business‑use insurance, and use your vehicle to transport clinical equipment.
Professional Responsibilities
-
Maintain your professional competence through ongoing CPD and keep an up‑to‑date development portfolio.
-
Ensure your practice meets national and local standards of Occupational Therapy.
-
Support and supervise rehabilitation support workers and occasionally Occupational Therapy students (with senior oversight).
-
Take part in the appraisal process and work towards agreed development goals.
-
Keep up to date with evidence‑based practice relevant to your clinical area.
-
Participate in audits, outcome measurement, and service improvement activities.
-
Attend and sometimes lead in‑service training sessions, tutorials, and other learning activities.
-
Safely prescribe, teach, and supervise the use of equipment by patients, carers, students, and support staff.
Package Description
As an Occupational Therapist you will be part of our valued team in our Specialist Neurology and Stroke Services, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
-
£31,049 - £37,796 Band 5 AfC Salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
-
Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
-
Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
-
Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
-
Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
-
An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
-
The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency, and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.
Finally, we need to let you know that the company you’ll work for is part of HCRG Care Group Holdings Limited and by applying for this job we’ll need to process and hold information about you. If you would like to know a little more about how we use your information, please see our website's privacy policy.
