Highly Specialist Occupational Therapist – Vocational Rehabilitation
The closing date is 23 June 2026
This role is offered on a secondment basis for 12 months. The hours are part-time, 15 hours per week.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a suitable qualified and experienced Occupational therapist to undertake a project role within Berkeley Vale PCN in delivering a Vocational Rehabilitation service. Patients will be assessed and suitable advice and recommendations will be made including the appropriate issue of Med 3 Fit notes, recommendations on reasonable adjustments to employment and referral on to other MDT members including Employment Specialists within the team.
Main duties of the job
- Run clinics within the primary care network where identified patients will be assessed and outcome measurement taken.
- Create individual treatment plans including the issue of Med 3 Fit notes where appropriate and fitness to work reports.
- Advise and work with patients to implement reasonable adjustments to their employed role.
- Measure outcomes using the Work and Social Adjustment Scale.
- Record treatment interventions following Trust and PCN procedures and maintain HCPC standards of practice.
- Communicate with other members of the MDT including employment specialists, GPs etc.
- Maintain accurate and up to date data on all interventions to feed into the end of project report and local dashboards.
Person Specification
Qualifications
- Degree / Diploma in Occupational Therapy.
- Evidence of relevant post graduate specialist training or equivalent experience and short courses to MSc, post graduate diploma level or equivalent.
- Experience of vocational rehabilitation.
- Experience of working in Primary Care.
Professional and specialist knowledge
- Robust knowledge of governance issues including consent, person centred planning, health facilitation, care programme approach and data protection.
- Experience of leadership of staff.
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.
Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust
£49,387 to £56,515 a year per annum pro rata
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