Community Specialist Occupational Therapist

Job summary

This post is within the Northwich Care Community. The role is to assess, manage and provide treatment to a caseload of service users with complex and/or multiple needs. They will be working closely with the MDT and provide supervision to therapy assistants, junior staff and students. There may be an expectation to work between multiple sites in the organisation.

The Occupational therapist will be expected to join the 7-day, urgent community response rota and may be lone working within the guidelines of the lone working policy.

This is a secondment opportunity.

We are looking for enthusiastic, motivated and flexible Occupational Therapist to join our friendly, supportive, dynamic team in Northwich Care Community.

We provide a rapid, unplanned and planned response, we facilitate early discharge from hospital and aim to reduce hospital admissions.

There is a varied caseload and you will need to demonstrate knowledge, experience and relevant clinical skills with patients with complex / long term conditions, falls, orthopaedics, general mobility problems and neurological conditions.

The successful candidate will work as a member of our integrated multidisciplinary team alongside Physiotherapists, District Nurses, Advance Nurse Practitioners, Complex Case Practitioners, Mac Millan Nurses and will be responsible for supervising junior members of staff and students.

There will be associated administrative duties and you will need to be computer literate with a good knowledge of Microsoft packages and have accurate keyboard skills. Our team utilises digital technology to support remote working and accommodate a flexible working approach where possible and is supported to do this with access to a laptop and mobile phone.

You are required to be a car driver and have access to your own vehicle.

An excellent secondment opportunity to join our Northwich Team. Our friendly and supportive team consists of Band 3 and 4 Therapy Assistants, Band 6 Physio and Occupational Therapists, Band 7 Advanced Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist. We also support Band 5 Physio and Occupational Therapists on the rotational programmes.

Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (MCHFT) provides good quality, safe and effective healthcare to the people of Cheshire and beyond. The Trust, which manages Leighton Hospital in Crewe, Victoria Infirmary in Northwich, and Elmhurst Intermediate Care Centre in Winsford, was established as an NHS Trust in April 1991 and became a Foundation Trust in April 2008.

We employ almost 5,000 members of staff, provide around 540 hospital beds, with a range of services including accident and emergency, maternity, outpatients, therapies, and children's health.

The Trust is also part of Central Cheshire Integrated Care Partnership (CCICP), a unique local health partnership that provides a range of community services for people across South Cheshire and Vale Royal.

At Mid Cheshire, we value our staff and appreciate that in order to give our patients the best quality, compassionate care, we also need to look after our colleagues.

Date posted: 13 August 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 6
Salary: £39,959 to £48,117 a year
pa, pro rata
Contract: Secondment
Working pattern: Part-time
Reference number: 412-COMM-8135205-A
Job locations: Northwich Community Team - Verdin House, Victoria Infirmary, Northwich, CW8 1AW
, United Kingdom

Health and care professionals working at the level of specialist should be able to:

• Manage a clinical caseload with autonomy, work without direct supervision
• Undertake comprehensive physiotherapy assessment, provide a therapeutic diagnosis (using investigative and advanced analytical skills, specialist listening, physical and observational skills, interpret clinical findings and documentation) and implement agreed treatment plans if appropriate, including the treatment of complex service users with multiple pathologies in a manner that respects peoples privacy dignity and individuality
• Provide individual or group therapy as appropriate to setting
• Implement monitoring and evaluation of treatment in order to measure progress and outcomes to ensure effectiveness of interventions and service delivery
• Develop programmes of care to support discharge from service
• Be responsible for equipment used in carrying out clinical duties, and to adhere to policy, including competence to use equipment and to ensure safe use of equipment by others through teaching, training and supervision of practice
• Record, maintain and store accurate, comprehensive and up to date documentation, in line with legal and local requirements. Communicate outcomes of assessments/intervention to appropriate disciplines in form of letters/reports/discharge summaries
• Arrange appointments (as applicable), work closely with MDT, attend case reviews/case conferences/variety of MDT internal and external meetings/forums
• Contribute to the safeguarding of our Service…