Occupational Therapist - Neuro Rehabilitation

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

The closing date is 15 March 2026

Are you looking for a new challenge? Are you passionate about providing patient centred care to people with Neurological conditions? An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 6 Neuro Occupational Therapist to work within the Community Neurology Service (CNS), based out of St Mary's Community Health Campus in Portsmouth

We are looking for a motivated and skilled Occupational Therapist who is committed to working as part of a Neuro rehabilitation multi-disciplinary team. This role will be focused on delivering neurological assessment and treatment plans centred around patients' goals to improve independence and quality of life.

The long-term conditions subdivisions of the Community Specialist Division of Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS foundation Trust delivered a wide range of clinical services across Portsmouth and Hampshire providing personalise, integrated care that supports health and wellbeing for those patients in our care.

The Community Neuro Service, based at St Marys Community Health Campus Portsmouth offers neurological assessments and treatment plans centred around patients' goals to improve their independence and quality of life and management of their long-term neurological condition.

• Provide specialist, evidence based Occupational Therapy assessments an intervention to a caseload of adult patients to ensure good clinical outcomes.
• Independently case management, advanced clinical reasoning, and collaborative work within a multidisciplinary community neuro team, aiming to optimise functional independence, safety, and participation in daily occupation taking into consideration fluctuating and long-term neurological conditions.
• Develop, deliver, and evaluate individualised treatment plans, focusing on meaningful occupations and functional goals and interventions around:
• Cognitive rehabilitation
• Upper limb rehabilitation and functional retraining
• Fatigue and anxiety management
• Seating, postural management, and pressure care
• Environmental adaptation and equipment provision
• Falls prevention and risk management
• Vocational Rehabilitation and accessing community
• Complex manual handling management
• Risk assessments and consideration of safe guarding/mental capacity implications.
• Participate in delegated management tasks for the team such as providing clinical supervision, recruitment and selection, induction of new starters, management of resources etc, ensuring good working practices for staff, efficiency and cost effectiveness. Implement Trust and service policies and proposed changes.

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

Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert.

The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.

We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.

• Degree level education or equivalent knowledge and skills gained through any combination of alternative study or employment experience
• Professional UK…