Home First Physiotherapist or Occupational Therapist

Job summary
Thank you for your interest in this opportunity at West London NHS Trust. We are looking for an enthusiastic professional who can help the Community Independence Service (CIS) make Hammersmith & Fulham (H&F) a great place to grow old.

As a member of the CIS Home First team, you will be expected to be a clinician with a broad range of competencies who can adapt to a wide variety of clinical circumstances.

You will use evidence-based principles, current best practices, and specialist skills to assess, plan, implement, and evaluate interventions and to optimise patient safety following their discharge from the hospital.

You will deliver skilled physiotherapy or occupational therapy care to clients in their own homes, based on a thorough holistic and risk assessment of their clinical and personal needs and the agreement of an individualised care plan.

You will enjoy the rewards of working with a client group for whom you can make a significant difference every day through your face-to-face client visits and care plan management.

You will experience the strong motivation of being part of a supportive multi-agency effort that includes medical, mental health, nursing, allied health professionals, social care, and reablement staff. We will equip you for mobile working and actively support flexible working practices.

This is a fixed-term appointment for the period specified. Completion of the contract does not, by itself, guarantee renewal or further or permanent employment.

Main duties of the job
Key Responsibilities

• To support the transition of patients from acute services to the community and provide community assessments for people in the home first pathway.
• The post holder will work in partnership with colleagues in the acute sector, social services, intermediate and primary care services to ensure that appropriate patients from the acute setting are transferred in a safe, timely and seamless manner into the community.
• The post holder will coordinate the home first HCA care delivery.
• The post holder will ensure effective onward transfer of patient care from home first to community pathways as required.
• To identify/case find and pull potential CIS patients in partnership with acute colleagues ensuring that as soon as patients are medically stable they are transferred to the appropriate community service.
• To independently undertake assessments of health and social care needs at home and plan community services required.
• To support and enable the process of safe discharge from secondary.
• To organise the overall daily management of the Home First team in order to ensure that service requirements are met, and ensure access, equipment and resources are in one place to allow the Health Care Assistant (HCA) team to safely meet the needs of the patient in the community.

The service is operational 7 days a week 8 am to 8 pm. Hours of work for therapists will vary between these hours.

About us
West London NHS Trust is one of the most diverse healthcare providers in the UK, delivering a range of mental health and physical healthcare and community services. The Trust runs Broadmoor Hospital, one of three high secure hospitals in the country, with an international reputation.

Our high secure services care for patients from South of England and we provide low and medium secure services across eight London boroughs. The Trust also provides mental and physical healthcare in three London boroughs (Ealing, Hounslow and Hammersmith & Fulham). We employ over 5,000 staff, of whom 59% are BME. Our turnover for 2024-25 is over £500m.

The Trust is rated as 'Good' overall by the Care Quality Commission. Forensic services are rated as 'Outstanding'.

The Trust is an established partner and contributor in the development of the evolving North West London Integrated Care System and the Integrated Care Board. The Trust leads the NW London Children and Adolescent Mental Health provider collaborative.

Details
Date posted: 23 October 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 6
Salary: £47,951 to £56,863 a year per annum inclusive of 20% HCAS
Contract: Fixed term
Duration: 11 months
Working pattern: Full-time
Reference number: 222-H&F-148-A
Job locations: Community Independence Service, Hammersmith and Fulham, UB1 3EU, United Kingdom

Person Specification
Qualifications and Training

• Essential: Degree / Diploma Physiotherapist or Occupational therapist
• Essential: Registration with HCPC as a Physiotherapist or Occupational therapist
• Desirable: Post registration CPD, e.g. goal setting, frailty and older people's rehabilitation, student placement facilitator

Experience

• Essential: Previous experience of working in the UK or a similar health economy as a Physiotherapist or Occupational therapist.
• Essential: Previous general experience to include older people / frailty assessment and rehabilitation, medicine, general surgery, orthopaedics, falls, dementia, respiratory, neurology, long term conditions, experience teaching juniors and assistants, experience completing audit and service development
• Desirable: Experience working as an autonomous practitioner in a community setting.
• Desirable: Experience teaching students

Knowledge

• Essential: Excellent IT skills including Outlook, Word, Excel and clinical records databases.
• Essential: Excellent communication skills, fluency in written and verbal English.
• Essential: Demonstrates flexibility, problem solving, initiative and leadership skills.
• Essential: Able to demonstrate clinical and professional development.
• Essential: Understanding the principles of multi-disciplinary team work.
• Essential: Awareness of developments in NHS and service delivery and improvement.
• Essential: Evidence of maintenance of a CPD portfolio.
• Essential: Demonstration of knowledge of standards of practice, evidence and best practice guidelines.
• Essential: Able to demonstrate a good understanding of the role of an Occupational therapist and Physiotherapist in community assessment as well as the role of other professionals in the MDT.
• Essential: Demonstrated a commitment to working with older people.
• Essential: Able to demonstrate insight into the problems of disability and its effects.
• Essential: Able to demonstrate an understanding of the application of health and safety.

Personal Qualities

• Essential: Personally and professionally responsible
• Essential: To be flexible, to be able to motivate self and others
• Essential: The ability to work under pressure and set priorities, delegate and manage own time
• Essential: The ability to work in a team
• Essential: Leadership skills and an interest in management skills
• Desirable: Have insight into own strengths and development areas with respect to the trust's values and behaviours

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.

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact: Rapid Pathway Lead, Kuldip Kaur, Kuldip.kaur2@nhs.net

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