Senior Occupational Therapist - Community
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Part-time
- Hours / week
- 30
- Posted
- 21/09/2026
- Closes
- 05/10/2026
Sponsorship verdict
This contract type is not eligible for Skilled Worker sponsorship.
NHS Trusts cannot issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for part-time, bank, locum, zero-hours, job-share or short fixed-term (under 12 months) contracts under current Home Office rules. This applies even when the wider Trust holds a Skilled Worker licence.
Role summary
This role is for an experienced Occupational Therapist to join the Peterborough Community Rehabilitation Team. You will work as an autonomous practitioner, assessing, planning, and developing specialist OT programmes for patients with complex needs in their home environment. The role involves managing your own caseload, prioritising referrals, and supervising junior staff and students to ensure high-quality patient care. Independent travel around Cambridgeshire and Peterborough is essential.
Key responsibilities
- To be professionally and legally accountable for all aspects for your own and delegated work.
- To undertake holistic assessment (including those with complex presentations and multi pathologies) making use of clinical reasoning skills.
- To use evidence-based practice, to ensure clinical care is effective and appropriate.
- To promote independence and wherever possible to avoid hospital admission and reduce inpatient length of stay.
- Organise and manage own time, delegating work appropriately.
- To ensure that accurate and timely written records are kept which comply with the Trust policy and HCPC guidance.
Essential criteria
- Demonstrate empathy for the concerns of others
- Willingness to be flexible in approach and attitude
- Have a range of mechanisms for dealing with stress; can recognise when to use them and does so
- Degree or equivalent, e.g. BSc, MSc or Diploma entry level qualification into the OT professions.
- Current HCPC registration
- Documented evidence of own continuing professional development
- Relevant post-graduate clinical experience in a variety of settings.
- Clinical supervisor
- [contact details removed] and accountability for own work and can define the responsibilities of others
- Recognises the limits of own authority within the role
- Seeks and uses professional support appropriately
- Understands the principle of confidentiality
- Demonstrate professional responsibility
- Able to demonstrate commitment to high quality care and service provision
- Able to work flexibly as part of a team
- Good communication skills
- Able to assess, plan and implement care
- Kneel, bend & stoop, and work in cramped environments
- Ability to travel independently around Cambridgeshire and Peterborough area meeting required timescales. A Full driving licence and access to a vehicle is essential.
Desirable criteria
- Member of Royal College of Occupational Therapy
- Community experience
- Equipment provision
- SystmOne
- Understanding of clinical supervision
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 6 at £37,338 – £44,962 a year, across England.
This advert: £39,959 – £48,117 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust
Senior Occupational Therapist - Community
The closing date is 05 October 2026
Job summary
Part time - 30 hours per week
We are currently looking to recruit an enthusiastic and motivated Occupational Therapist, to join the Peterborough Community Rehabilitation Team based at Botolph Bridge Community Health Centre, Valley Park Centre, Sugar Way Peterborough PE2 9QB.
The role is suitable for an experienced OT.
This role is based in Peterborough and the surrounding area . You would be working as part of a multidisciplinary team providing high quality rehabilitation to patients with physical disabilities in their home environment.
Main duties of the job
Please note for this role you will be required to travel independently around the county meeting strict time deadlines. You will need to hold a full UK driving licence* and have use of a vehicle. You cannot use public transport for this role as this is not a reliable form of transport and will not allow you to meet service needs. Please confirm in your application that you meet the specified criteria.
- We are looking for a self-motivated individual who is able to work as an autonomous practitioner within the Community Rehabilitation team to provide a high standard of care to our patients.
- Your role will include assessing, planning and developing sp
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