RRIC Community Practitioner - Occupational Therapist

Job summary
Our innovative Rapid Response & Intermediate Care service is expanding across Buckinghamshire - and we need you to join our Buckingham team.

Watch our RRIC team talk about their roles - and why you should join them:

• Your mission: To provide expert interventions and rehabilitation as part of a dynamic, tight-knit team that reacts quickly when people are in crisis.
• Your aim: To help patients stay in their own home, empowering recovery and preventing unnecessary hospitalisation. You'll also support early discharge from hospital and patients at the end of life.
• Your role: Add your expertise to our multi-disciplinary community team working with Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Nurses, Specialist Paramedics, Paramedics, Pharmacists, Community Healthcare Assistant Practitioners or Healthcare Assistants.
• Who are we? We're part of Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust, based in 7 locations across the county, including a North and a South Urgent Community Response Squad. Together we operate as one mission force, collaborating with colleagues across all sectors of health and social care.
• Who are you? If you're committed to excellence, motivated by developing your clinical skills, driven by being at the cutting edge of healthcare delivery and thrive as part of our North Team (including Thame, Aylesbury and Buckingham) choose #MissionRRIC today.

Main duties of the job
#MissionRRIC
Your main duties include:

• Providing triage, comprehensive specialist assessment, review, case management and evaluation of the needs of patients and carers
• Being responsible for planning programmes of care to promote health gain and maximise independence, actively case managing patients through their journeys
• Allocating appropriate workloads to members of the Rapid Response & Intermediate Care (RRIC) team
• Working with a range of professionals in order to ensure care is appropriate and delivered in a timely manner.
• Demonstrating professional skills and competence in leadership, care planning / co-ordination, and care and treatment delivery.Support the development of clinical pathways

About us
Listen to why colleagues think we are a great place to work! - BHT - A great place to work (buckshealthcare.nhs.uk)

What does Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust offer you?

• As part of our BHT family, you'll benefit from learning and development opportunities to support your career progression.
• We offer flexible and agile working opportunities, alongside your NHS benefits of generous annual leave entitlement, pension and access to NHS discount schemes.
• We provide a range of health and wellbeing services to promote a healthy, happy workforce.

Why work for us?

• We're committed to promoting inclusion and making sure all colleagues feel they belong. We encourage new colleagues from a diverse range of backgrounds to apply.
• As an employer, we aim to create a workplace where differences are valued and colleagues treat one another with dignity and respect.
• Greater diversity within our BHT family improves positive outcomes for the people and communities we serve.
• A keen supporter of the Armed Forces Community who know the value of employing a service leaver/veteran and their families.

What do we stand for?

• Our vision is to provide outstanding care, support healthy communities and be a great place to work.
• Our mission is to provide personal and compassionate care every time.
• Our care values are collaborate, aspire, respect and enable.

Details
Date posted
24 August 2026

Pay scheme
Agenda for change

Band
Band 6

Salary
£39,959 to £48,117 a year
per annum pro rata

Contract
Permanent

Working pattern
Part-time,
Flexible working

Reference number
434-CR7914510-G

Job locations
Marlow Community Hospital
Marlow
SL7 1DJ
United Kingdom

Job description
Job responsibilities
For a comprehensive list of responsibilities and duties, please kindly refer to the Job Description and Person Specification by downloading the JD and PS attachment in the advert.

If you are an internal applicant there is the option for secondment, all applicants must have the endorsement/support of their line manager prior to application.

If you have a disability that makes submitting this online application difficult and would like assistance, please contact us on View email address on meeveem.com quoting the vacancy reference number.

Disclaimer: The trust reserves the right to close the vacancy early should we receive sufficient applications and therefore early submission is recommended. Please note: Previous applicants need not apply.

Person Specification
EDUCATION, QUALIFICATIONS & TRAINING
Essential

• Registered Allied Healthcare Professional with HCPC - Occupational Therapist
• Degree/ Diploma in Occupational Therapy
• Experience of recent Continuous Professional Development.
• Relevant post graduate clinical training e.g. Elderly Long Term Conditions Respiratory Disease Cardiac Disease Trauma, Orthopaedics & End of Life

EXPERIENCE
Essential

• Demonstrate experience post or pre-registration placements in relevant clinical areas for therapists:- Care of Elderly Orthopaedics Neurology Respiratory Palliative Care Long term conditions
• In depth experience of working within multi-agency/multi-disciplinary team

Desirable

• Experience participating in research or audit project.
• Experience of working in a community/in-patient setting for a minimum of 2 years post registration
• Experience of working with single assessment process.
• Experience of electronic clinical systems.
• Experience of day-to-day staff management e.g. case allocation to Health Care Assistants

SKILLS, ABILITIES & KNOWLEDGE
Essential

• Demonstrate profession specific clinical assessment planning delivery and evaluation skills.
• Ability to motivate staff.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Self-Awareness
• Presentation skills

Desirable

• Ability to manage complex cases.
• Teaching patients, carers, and colleagues
• Presentation skills
• IT Skills.
• Report writing skills.
• Knowledge of modernisation agenda within the NHS and social care.
• Ability to develop and maintain partnership working.
• Knowledge of legal requirement for working with vulnerable adults and those who lack capacity.

Special Circumstances
Essential

• Valid and current driving licence and car to be able to travel to locations throughout Buckinghamshire.

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details
Employer name
Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust

Address
Marlow Community Hospital
Marlow
SL7 1DJ
United Kingdom

Employer's website
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Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact:
RRIC Team Lead Marlow
Nicole Roper
View email address on meeveem.com

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