Occupational Therapist
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation TrustBasingstoke, South East
Overview
This is a NHS role (permanent) with Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust based in Basingstoke. The advertised salary is £32,073 to £39,043. Applications close on 25 October 2026. GovJobs has indexed this vacancy from its official source — use the apply button to view the full advert and apply directly.
Job description
We are seeking an OT for Basingstoke Community Therapy, a friendly, supportive team of Therapists and Therapy assistants providing domiciliary rehabil...
As the successful applicant you will need to be an efficient worker, a good communicator and be confident working as an autonomous practitioner. You will be working in the community both independently and with colleagues.You will be responsible for managing your own caseload whilst working effectively within the multidisciplinary team to ensure an integrated approach to patient care. You will aim to prevent unnecessary admission to hospital or long-term care, you will be promoting functional independence and working with individuals and colleagues towards varied goals.
You will be adept at completing holistic initial assessments, identifying and agreeing goals, delivering therapy intervention that may vary between posture management, upper limb rehab or achieving independence with activities of daily living. You will be able to complete onward referrals, liaise with family, carers and colleagues effectively and maintain accurate contemporaneous records.
As part of your role you will supervise students, engage in inservice training and have a key link role in the team
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.
We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.
Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.
We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.
Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence
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How this role compares
We hold 1,160 NHS vacancies in South East that publish a salary, and their median advertised starting figure is £39,959. This role pays less than about 67% of them.
There are 13,012 NHS roles open across the UK on GovJobs right now, 1,943 of them in South East.
You have 4 days left to apply. NHS adverts we hold typically run for around 46 days, so this is a shorter window than usual.
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust has 105 other vacancies open on GovJobs, with a breakdown of what they pay and the kinds of roles they recruit for.
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