Job Description

Job Introduction

We are looking for a thoughtful and enthusiastic individual to join our friendly team within our Intermediate Care Rehabilitation Service in Luton. Whether you are looking to take your first step into your Occupational Therapy career or are seeking an opportunity to build upon your existing Band 5 working experience, you will be highly supported as you learn and build your skillset and develop in your career.


As a Band 5 Occupational Therapist, you will be working closely with a wider multi-disciplinary team, l delivering supportive and therapeutic sessions to adults and their families to reduce hospital admission, enabling adults to stay living at home independently. You will be responsible for carrying out holistic assessments and treatment of service users through the development of personalised care plans and goals and will work flexibly to ensure the service user's wide range of needs are met.

About the area:

Intermediate Care Rehabilitation Service is based in a suburb in the northern region of Luton. In just a short distance from here, you will find picturesque countryside walks, nature reserves, and scenic views.


Transport links are well served, with rail links to Luton town centre, Bedford, Milton Keynes, London and beyond, as well as easy road access to Junctions 11 and 11a on the M1. Bus stops are located at intervals across the area, with routes leading directly into Luton town centre, neighbouring towns and villages such as Harpenden and Dunstable, and the mainline train station for London.


Working days are Monday to Friday, between the hours of 8am and 5pm.


Main Responsibilities

Your days will be varied and fulfilling and include:

Carrying out holistic assessment, diagnosis and treatment with patients with diverse presentations and a range of physical and psychological conditions within the context of a community-based, multi-disciplinary team. Supporting daily triage and caseload management for the team Holding responsibility for own case load working with rehabilitation therapy workers to deliver therapeutic programmes as part of the multi-disciplinary team. Providing effective supervision to junior colleague, students, therapy workers and administrators within the team

The Ideal Candidate

As an Occupational Therapist within HCRG Care Group Luton you'll join a team who are focused on clinical excellence.


Your days will be rewarding and varied and include offering support to adults and their families to reduce hospital admission and enable adults to stay living at home independently. You will have an Occupational Therapy qualification and be registered with HCPC. Having a full UK Driving Licence and access to a vehicle is vital for this role to visit the patients around the community.


You will also need to be confident using IT systems and be able to demonstrate working knowledge of Microsoft Office packages i.e. Outlook, Word, Excel.


About The Company

We change lives by transforming health and care.



Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.



We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We're a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.



While it doesn't happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we'll need to close it earlier than the date we've shown here. If you're keen to join our team, we'd love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.



As you'd expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.



Finally, we need to let you know that the company you'll work for is part of HCRG Care Group Holdings Limited and by applying for this job we'll need to process and hold information about you. If you would like to know a little more about how we use your information, please see our website's privacy policy.


Package Description

As a Band 5 Occupational Therapist, you'll be part of our valued team at Luton Intermediate Care Rehabilitation Service in Luton, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

Band 5 salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location Plentiful on site-parking Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life's emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing - from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our 'Outstanding' learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise * An open, just culture where you're encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care - backed up by at least 100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year