Senior Physiotherapist / Occupational Therapist - UCR

The closing date is 22 March 2026

We are seeking a compassionate and dedicated Occupational Therapist or Physiotherapist to join our dynamic Urgent Community Response (UCR) team. In this role, you will provide high quality, person centred care through timely assessment, clinical reasoning, intervention planning, and evaluation to support people to remain safely at home and avoid unnecessary hospital admission.

As an experienced AHP, you will manage a defined caseload, working autonomously and within professional guidelines to deliver evidence based rehabilitation and urgent response interventions. You will play a pivotal role in meeting the needs of patients and their families, promoting independence, optimising function, and supporting improved health and wellbeing.

Your practice will reflect the values of compassion, competence, communication, courage, and commitment, ensuring care is comprehensive, culturally sensitive, and truly centred on the individual.

This role offers an exciting opportunity to further develop your AHP career within a fast paced and rewarding service, where your skills will make a tangible difference to patients and their families at moments of urgent need.

If you are passionate about delivering high quality, patient centred care and meet the above requirements, we would love to hear from you.

Apply today to join our team and make a difference.

This role covers South East Hampshire.

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.

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• BSc Hons Physiotherapy/Occupational Therapist or equivalent
  
• Health Professions Council Registration
  
• UK Driving License
  

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.