RRIC Community Practitioner - Occupational Therapist
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Part-time, Job share, Flexible working
- Posted
- 20/08/2026
- Closes
- 03/09/2026
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
Join the Rapid Response & Intermediate Care service in Buckinghamshire as an Occupational Therapist. This role involves providing expert interventions and rehabilitation to help patients stay in their own homes, empowering recovery, and preventing unnecessary hospitalisation. You will work as part of a multi-disciplinary community team, supporting early discharge and end-of-life care. The position requires comprehensive specialist assessment, planning, and evaluation of patient needs.
Essential criteria
- Valid and current UK driving licence and car to be able to travel to locations throughout Buckinghamshire.
- EDUCATION, QUALIFICATIONS & TRAINING
- Registered Allied Healthcare Professional with HCPC -Occupational Therapist
- Degree/ Diploma in Occupational Therapy
- Experience of recent Continuous Professional Development.
- Relevant post graduate clinical training e.g. Advanced History Taking & Assessment Long Term Conditions Respiratory Disease Cardiac Disease Trauma, Orthopaedics & End of Life
- Demonstrate experience post or preregistration placements in relevant clinical areas for therapists:- Care of Elderly Orthopaedics Neurology Respiratory Palliative Care Long term conditions
- In depth experience of working within multi-agency/multi-disciplinary team.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working in an NHS community/in-patient setting for a minimum of 2 years post registration.
- Experience of electronic clinical systems
- Experience participating in research or audit project.
- Experience of day-to-day staff management e.g. case allocation to Health Care Assistants
- Experience of working with single assessment process.
- SKILLS, ABILITIES & KNOWLEDGE
- Demonstrate profession specific clinical assessment planning delivery and evaluation skills.
- Knowledge of legal requirement for working with vulnerable adults and those who lack capacity
- Ability to manage complex cases
- Ability to develop and maintain partnership working
- Knowledge of modernisation agenda within the NHS and social care
- IT Skills
- Report writing skills
- Teaching patients, carers, and colleagues
- SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES
- Valid and current UK driving licence and car to be able to travel to locations throughout Buckinghamshire.
- EDUCATION, QUALIFICATIONS & TRAINING
- Registered Allied Healthcare Professional with HCPC -Occupational Therapist
- Degree/ Diploma in Occupational Therapy
- Experience of recent Continuous Professional Development.
- Relevant post graduate clinical training e.g. Advanced History Taking & Assessment Long Term Conditions Respiratory Disease Cardiac Disease Trauma, Orthopaedics & End of Life
- Demonstrate experience post or preregistration placements in relevant clinical areas for therapists:- Care of Elderly Orthopaedics Neurology Respiratory Palliative Care Long term conditions
- In depth experience of working within multi-agency/multi-disciplinary team.
- Experience of working in an NHS community/in-patient setting for a minimum of 2 years post registration.
- Experience of electronic clinical systems
- Experience participating in research or audit project.
- Experience of day-to-day staff management e.g. case allocation to Health Care Assistants
- Experience of working with single assessment process.
- SKILLS, ABILITIES & KNOWLEDGE
- Demonstrate profession specific clinical assessment planning delivery and evaluation skills.
- Knowledge of legal requirement for working with vulnerable adults and those who lack capacity
- Ability to manage complex cases
- Ability to develop and maintain partnership working
- Knowledge of modernisation agenda within the NHS and social care
- IT Skills
- Report writing skills
- Teaching patients, carers, and colleagues
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.
Posted 10d ago · Closes in 5d
Plenty of time to prepare a strong application.
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Job summary
RRIC: join our team
Our innovative Rapid Response & Intermediate Care service works across Buckinghamshire - and we need you to join our Aylesbury Team
- Your mission: To provide expert interventions and rehabilitation as part of a dynamic, tight-knit team that reacts quickly when people are in crisis.
- Your aim: To help patients stay in their own home, empowering recovery and preventing unnecessary hospitalisation. You will also support early discharge from hospital and patients at the end of life.
- Your role: Add your expertise to our multi-disciplinary community team working with Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Nurses, Specialist Paramedics, Paramedics, Pharmacists, Community Healthcare Assistant Practitioners or Healthcare Assistants.
- Who are we? We are part of Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust, based in 7 locations across the county, including a North and a South Urgent Community Response Squad. Together we operate as one collaborating with colleagues across all sectors of health and social care.
- Who are you? If you are committed to excellence, motivated by developing your clinical skills, driven by being at the cutting edge of healthcare delivery and thrive as part of a team
Disclaimer: The trust reserves the right to close the vacancy early should we receive sufficient applications and therefore early submission
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