• Job Description

  Req#: F0011-25-8050?language=en&page=875&sort=publicationDateDesc

  Job summary

  Join Our Dynamic Occupational Therapy Team in South Devon!

  Are you a passionate and motivated Band 6 Occupational Therapist looking for a rewarding role in a supportive and forward-thinking team? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you to join Care Direct Plus South in Newton Abbot.

  Why Choose Us?

  Our enthusiastic and welcoming team is dedicated to making a real difference in the lives of adults across South Devon. Covering a diverse area including vibrant towns, charming villages, and stunning rural communities you'll have the chance to work in a truly unique and scenic environment. We work closely with NHS teams, social care services, district councils, housing providers, and equipment suppliers, ensuring a collaborative and holistic approach to care. Our team includes a mix of experienced Band 5 and Band 6 Occupational Therapists, as well as experienced Social Care Assessors and OT apprentices all committed to supporting one another and delivering excellent outcomes.

  What's in It for You?

  A friendly and experienced team offering peer support, regular supervision, and CPD opportunities.

  Flexible working with telephone, virtual, and in-person assessments tailored to client needs.

  Diverse caseload covering a wide range of disabilities and health conditions.

  Scenic travel around the beautiful South Devon area as you support individuals in their own homes.

  Main duties of the job

  Working as full members of the Care Direct Plus Team, Community Occupational Therapists will primarily be responsible for providing a person-centred service through specialist clinical assessment within the context of Social Care and Health policy and legislation. The post involves managing a caseload and lone working in a variety of settings. The emphasis of the work is a combination of Occupational Therapy and specialist moving and handling clinical skills/knowledge with responsibilities involving highly skilled and specialised work.

  The tasks will involve (though not exclusively) the following:

  • Undertaking specialist moving and handling assessments and reviews within hospital and community settings. This will be where the person is primarily in receipt of double handed care and/or where double handed care is requested, but not exclusive to this.
  • Prescribing and implementing effective strategies to achieve person centred and cost effective outcomes for individuals including the use of specialist equipment and care packages.
  • Managing a caseload including highly complex cases within the legal framework.
  • Acting as an autonomous practitioner evidencing high levels of problem solving, decision making and independent judgement in a variety of community settings and situations.

  Exploring innovative ways of collaborative working between general practice, health and social care, acute and community and the private and voluntary sector.

  About us

  What we can offer you

  • We are committed to yourcontinuous professional developmentand preceptorship, doing all we can to help you excel in your career and with new and exciting opportunities for career development. You will receive excellent support and supervision, with regular opportunities to discuss and reflect on your practice, both with your line manager and peers.
  • We offer26 days annual leave, plus Bank Holidays, rising incrementally to 31 days after 5 years service.
  • Recognition of NHS continuous service for contractual annual leave purposes, sick pay entitlement and Maternity/Adoption & Paternity pay entitlement (within DCC Terms & Conditions)
  • Flexible working opportunitiesare available, these include part-time hours, flexitime, compressed working hours and homeworking (this is subject to the needs of the role please discuss at further at interview)
  • Offer an opportunity to enter a generousLocal Government Pension Scheme.
  • As a place to live and work, Devon is hard to beat with top-performing schools, universities, vibrant cities, pretty villages and some of the most scenic coast and countryside in the UK. Living and working in Devon as an Occupational Therapist has never been more attractive.
  • If you are currently living, working or studying in the UK and are looking to relocate to Devon, subject to qualifying conditions and in exceptional circumstances,relocation supportof up to £10,000, may be available.

  Details

  Date posted

  23 June 2025

  Pay scheme

  Agenda for change

  Band

  Band 6

  Salary

  £38,682 to £46,580 a year

  Contract

  Permanent

  Working pattern

  Full-time, Flexible working

  Reference number

  F0011-25-8050

  Job locations

  Old Forde House

  Newton Abbot

  TQ12 4XX

  
  

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  Brief overall description of role:

  Working as full members of the Care Direct Plus Team, Community Occupational Therapistswill primarily be responsible for providing a person-centred service through specialist clinicalassessment within the context of Social Care and Health policy and legislation. The postinvolves managing a caseload and lone working in a variety of settings. The emphasis of thework is a combination of Occupational Therapy and specialist moving and handling clinicalskills/knowledge with responsibilities involving highly skilled and specialised work.

  The tasks will involve (though not exclusively) the following:

  Undertaking specialist moving and handling assessments and reviews within hospitaland community settings. This will be where the person is primarily in receipt of doublehanded care and/or where double handed care is requested, but not exclusive to this.

  Prescribing and implementing effective strategies to achieve person centred and costeffective outcomes for individuals including the use of specialist equipment and carepackages.

  Managing a caseload including highly complex cases within the legal framework.

  Acting as an autonomous practitioner evidencing high levels of problem solving, decisionmaking and independent judgement in a variety of community settings and situations.

  Exploring innovative ways of collaborative working between general practice, health andsocial care, acute and community and the private and voluntary sector.

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  Brief overall description of role:

  Working as full members of the Care Direct Plus Team, Community Occupational Therapistswill primarily be responsible for providing a person-centred service through specialist clinicalassessment within the context of Social Care and Health policy and legislation. The postinvolves managing a caseload and lone working in a variety of settings. The emphasis of thework is a combination of Occupational Therapy and specialist moving and handling clinicalskills/knowledge with responsibilities involving highly skilled and specialised work.

  The tasks will involve (though not exclusively) the following:

  Undertaking specialist moving and handling assessments and reviews within hospitaland community settings. This will be where the person is primarily in receipt of doublehanded care and/or where double handed care is requested, but not exclusive to this.

  Prescribing and implementing effective strategies to achieve person centred and costeffective outcomes for individuals including the use of specialist equipment and carepackages.

  Managing a caseload including highly complex cases within the legal framework.

  Acting as an autonomous practitioner evidencing high levels of problem solving, decisionmaking and independent judgement in a variety of community settings and situations.

  Exploring innovative ways of collaborative working between general practice, health andsocial care, acute and community and the private and voluntary sector.

  Person Specification

  Qualifications

  Essential

  • Professional knowledge acquired through degree or diploma in Occupational Therapy.
  • Registered as fit to practice by Health and Care Professions Council.
  • Continuing professional development through specialist courses and other forms of training as evidenced through appraisal, supervision, practice and portfolio.
  • To have completed moving and handling train the trainer course (or be willing to complete).

  Experience

  Essential

  • Post qualifying experience relevant to post.
  • Experience of working in close liaison with other appropriate agencies.
  • Experience of working in a Social Care and/or Health community setting

  Desirable

  • Involvement in service development.
  • Supervision of students on placement

  Person Specification

  Qualifications

  Essential

  • Professional knowledge acquired through degree or diploma in Occupational Therapy.
  • Registered as fit to practice by Health and Care Professions Council.
  • Continuing professional development through specialist courses and other forms of training as evidenced through appraisal, supervision, practice and portfolio.
  • To have completed moving and handling train the trainer course (or be willing to complete).

  Experience

  Essential

  • Post qualifying experience relevant to post.
  • Experience of working in close liaison with other appropriate agencies.
  • Experience of working in a Social Care and/or Health community setting

  Desirable

  • Involvement in service development.
  • Supervision of students on placement

  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.

  Employer details

  Employer name

  Devon County Council

  Address

  Old Forde House

  Newton Abbot

  TQ12 4XX

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://www.devon.gov.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

  Employer details

  Employer name

  Devon County Council

  Address

  Old Forde House

  Newton Abbot

  TQ12 4XX

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://www.devon.gov.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

• About the company

  National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly-funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). The founding principles were that services should be comprehensive, universal and free at the point of delivery—a health service based on clinical need, not ability to pay. Each service provides a comprehensive range of health services, free at the point of use for people ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom apart from dental treatment and optical care.

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