Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Senior Occupational Therapist or Physiotherapist
The closing date is 14 June 2026
We have an exciting opportunity for a Band 6 Therapist to join our service, delivering high-quality, person-centred care to patients in their own homes and community settings.
As a Band 6 Therapist, you will work as part of a multidisciplinary team to provide comprehensive rehabilitation and therapy interventions, supporting individuals to achieve their goals and maintain independence. This includes working alongside other therapy colleagues to deliver coordinated, high-quality rehabilitation and contributing to supporting discharge from hospital by providing timely, intensive rehabilitation in patients’ own homes where appropriate.
You will manage a varied caseload, including complex cases, and contribute to service development and quality improvement initiatives.
You’ll be joining a friendly, supportive team known for its collaborative spirit and commitment to patient‑centred care. Our teams are embedded within their local communities, making a real difference to the lives of local people.
You will work collaboratively with nursing, frailty, and primary care colleagues to support complex care needs, prevent hospital admissions, and facilitate timely discharges.
There are several posts available across the New Forest and Eastleigh localities. If you are ready for a new challenge and want to make a difference to people’s lives, we would love to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
- Provide specialist therapy skills within the Community Care Team.
- Assess and treat own caseload, which may include complex presentations and maintain own records as an autonomous practitioner.
- Assist senior staff in the education and supervision of junior colleagues, assistants and students.
- Assist senior staff in daily management of the team and provision of therapy service, deputising for the team leader in their absence.
- Assist senior staff in development and maintenance of an efficient and effective therapy service.
- Contribute to inter‑disciplinary working within the Community therapy team and locality by teaching, learning & practising inter‑disciplinary skills & techniques as defined by an agreed competency framework or training scheme.
About us
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.
Person Specification
Qualifications
- UK Health Professions Council registered Physiotherapist or Occupational Therapist
- Evidence of community experience and working as part of a multidisciplinary team.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
£39,959 to £48,117 a year Based on Full Time hours
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full‑time
Reference number
348-SSW-11500
Job locations
- New Kings Court, Tollgate, Chandlers Ford, Hampshire, SO53 3LG, United Kingdom
- Moorgreen Hospital, Botley Road, West End, Southampton, Hampshire, SO30 3JB, United Kingdom
- South Efford House, Hampshire, SO41 0JD, United Kingdom
- Unit 42, New Forest Enterprise Centre, Unit 42, New Forest Enterprise Centre, Rushington Business Park, Chapel Lane
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