Home First Clinical assessor (OT/PT) | Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 12 Mawrth 2026 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £46,419 - £55,046 per annum incl. HCAS (pro rata if Part time) |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 11 Ebrill 2026 |
| Lleoliad: | London, W9 2BA |
| Cwmni: | CNWL NHS Foundation Trust |
| Math o swydd: | Cytundeb |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 7867076/333-G-CIS-0214-A |
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• Westminster Community Independence Service is seeking a motivated and experienced Band 6 Occupational Therapist or Physiotherapist to join our team for a seven‑month career‑break cover within the Home First and Urgent Community Response Pathway.
This is an excellent opportunity for a therapist who has successfully completed core Band 5 rotations and is ready to take the next step in their career. We are looking for someone who is passionate about delivering high‑quality care, proactive, engaged, and committed to supporting people in their own homes at moments of greatest need.
You will deliver holistic, patient‑centred therapy to individuals in their own homes across the following pathways:
· Home First
· Urgent Community Response (UCR)
· Hospital at Home
While prior community experience is welcome, it is not essential. However, applicants must demonstrate:
· Alignment with CNWL Trust value
· An understanding of the realities of working in people’s homes
· Confidence working independently and as part of a wider multidisciplinary team
· Willingness to work flexibly, including weekends, public holidays, and extended hours
· Ability to undertake face‑to‑face visits and lone working
The successful candidate will work primarily within the Home First pathway, facilitating safe and effective hospital discharges. You will also provide therapy input across the UCR and Hospital at Home pathways as service needs arise.
This post is based in Westminster, but you may be required to visit patients across the London Boroughs of Hammersmith & Fulham, and Kensington & Chelsea depending on service demand.
We operate a seven‑day service, and Home First working hours run from 8 am to 8 pm. Expectations will be to participate in shift work and out‑of‑hours rotas as part of the role.
The face to face interviews will be held on 16thApril 2026.
• To be professionally and legally accountable for all aspects of own work, including the management of own patient caseload. To ensure a high level of care, and support more junior staff to do likewise.
• Promote a holistic, supportive, and patient cantered service that facilitates an intervention approach to promote change, acceptance and promotes self-management aiming to optimises functional improvement
• Work with Home First: supporting with triage, patient care pathway, and sharing knowledge related to the discharge to assess and admission avoidance strategies
• Work with patients, carers and families, and other statutory health related services
• Work autonomously and within the MDT team delivering individualised treatment interventions and management programmes
• Be flexible in the approach to delivering treatment and advice, have skills to deliver a variety of treatment interventions
• Have advanced communication skills that would include motivational and emotional support skills
Central and North West London NHS Trust expects all staff to act in a way which shows you understand our core values and are willing to put them into practice with service users, their friends, family, carers, and also other staff members.
As a member of the clinical team, we expect you to show COMPASSION, contribute to a caring and kind environment and recognise that what you do and say helps can make the lives of others better.
We expect you to RESPECTeveryone and acknowledge and welcome people’s differences rather than ignore them or see them as problematic.
We expect you toEMPOWERothers and continually try to provide information, resources and support to help others make their own decisions and meet their own needs.
We expect you to work inPARTNERSHIPand behave in a way that shows that you recognise that commissioners and users of our services are the people who generate and pay for our work.
• To be professionally and legally accountable for all aspects of own work, including the management of own patient caseload. To ensure a high level of care, and support more junior staff to do likewise.
• Promote a holistic, supportive, and patient cantered service that facilitates an intervention approach to promote change, acceptance and promotes self-management aiming to optimises functional improvement
• Work with Home First: supporting with triage, patient care pathway, and sharing knowledge related to the discharge to assess and admission avoidance strategies
• Work with patients, carers and families, and other statutory health related services
• Work autonomously and within the MDT team delivering individualised treatment interventions and management programmes
• Be flexible in the approach to delivering treatment and advice, have skills to deliver a variety of treatment interventions
• Have advanced communication skills that would include motivational and emotional support skills
• To use advanced clinical reasoning skills and assessment techniques to analyse and provide an accurate diagnosis of their condition.
• Manage a patient through the entirety of their care episode in relation to Home First assessment, symptom management, support and discharge.
• Where appropriate to work collaboratively with primary and secondary health care services, third sector services and social prescribing, education and social services, to ensure the delivery of a seamless and high-quality service.
• Have a broad skill set which can include advanced skills in delivering therapy intervention in order to provide a 2-hour urgent response for patients in a crisis.
• Manage severe complex, house bound patients. The CIS Home First service offers a domiciliary service to severely affected individuals; this requires collaborative working with social services and other attending care agencies.
• Be able to recognise the signs and symptoms of a deteriorating patient, having the skills to escalate accordingly.
• Be an advocate for the patient.
• Knowledge of where to sign-post patients for support, e.g. local or national support groups
• To be responsible for a caseload and work without direct supervision, and provide peer support for members of the MDT
• To ensure patient care and planned interventions are supported by available evidence base and experiential knowledge and are in accordance with Code of Professional conduct.
• To keep up to date and monitor literature related to Discharge to Assess and Crisis Response.
• To carryout risk assessment in line with Trust/National Protocol.
This advert closes on Thursday 26 Mar 2026
This is an excellent opportunity for a therapist who has successfully completed core Band 5 rotations and is ready to take the next step in their career. We are looking for someone who is passionate about delivering high‑quality care, proactive, engaged, and committed to supporting people in their own homes at moments of greatest need.
You will deliver holistic, patient‑centred therapy to individuals in their own homes across the following pathways:
· Home First
· Urgent Community Response (UCR)
· Hospital at Home
While prior community experience is welcome, it is not essential. However, applicants must demonstrate:
· Alignment with CNWL Trust value
· An understanding of the realities of working in people’s homes
· Confidence working independently and as part of a wider multidisciplinary team
· Willingness to work flexibly, including weekends, public holidays, and extended hours
· Ability to undertake face‑to‑face visits and lone working
The successful candidate will work primarily within the Home First pathway, facilitating safe and effective hospital discharges. You will also provide therapy input across the UCR and Hospital at Home pathways as service needs arise.
This post is based in Westminster, but you may be required to visit patients across the London Boroughs of Hammersmith & Fulham, and Kensington & Chelsea depending on service demand.
We operate a seven‑day service, and Home First working hours run from 8 am to 8 pm. Expectations will be to participate in shift work and out‑of‑hours rotas as part of the role.
The face to face interviews will be held on 16thApril 2026.
• To be professionally and legally accountable for all aspects of own work, including the management of own patient caseload. To ensure a high level of care, and support more junior staff to do likewise.
• Promote a holistic, supportive, and patient cantered service that facilitates an intervention approach to promote change, acceptance and promotes self-management aiming to optimises functional improvement
• Work with Home First: supporting with triage, patient care pathway, and sharing knowledge related to the discharge to assess and admission avoidance strategies
• Work with patients, carers and families, and other statutory health related services
• Work autonomously and within the MDT team delivering individualised treatment interventions and management programmes
• Be flexible in the approach to delivering treatment and advice, have skills to deliver a variety of treatment interventions
• Have advanced communication skills that would include motivational and emotional support skills
Central and North West London NHS Trust expects all staff to act in a way which shows you understand our core values and are willing to put them into practice with service users, their friends, family, carers, and also other staff members.
As a member of the clinical team, we expect you to show COMPASSION, contribute to a caring and kind environment and recognise that what you do and say helps can make the lives of others better.
We expect you to RESPECTeveryone and acknowledge and welcome people’s differences rather than ignore them or see them as problematic.
We expect you toEMPOWERothers and continually try to provide information, resources and support to help others make their own decisions and meet their own needs.
We expect you to work inPARTNERSHIPand behave in a way that shows that you recognise that commissioners and users of our services are the people who generate and pay for our work.
• To be professionally and legally accountable for all aspects of own work, including the management of own patient caseload. To ensure a high level of care, and support more junior staff to do likewise.
• Promote a holistic, supportive, and patient cantered service that facilitates an intervention approach to promote change, acceptance and promotes self-management aiming to optimises functional improvement
• Work with Home First: supporting with triage, patient care pathway, and sharing knowledge related to the discharge to assess and admission avoidance strategies
• Work with patients, carers and families, and other statutory health related services
• Work autonomously and within the MDT team delivering individualised treatment interventions and management programmes
• Be flexible in the approach to delivering treatment and advice, have skills to deliver a variety of treatment interventions
• Have advanced communication skills that would include motivational and emotional support skills
• To use advanced clinical reasoning skills and assessment techniques to analyse and provide an accurate diagnosis of their condition.
• Manage a patient through the entirety of their care episode in relation to Home First assessment, symptom management, support and discharge.
• Where appropriate to work collaboratively with primary and secondary health care services, third sector services and social prescribing, education and social services, to ensure the delivery of a seamless and high-quality service.
• Have a broad skill set which can include advanced skills in delivering therapy intervention in order to provide a 2-hour urgent response for patients in a crisis.
• Manage severe complex, house bound patients. The CIS Home First service offers a domiciliary service to severely affected individuals; this requires collaborative working with social services and other attending care agencies.
• Be able to recognise the signs and symptoms of a deteriorating patient, having the skills to escalate accordingly.
• Be an advocate for the patient.
• Knowledge of where to sign-post patients for support, e.g. local or national support groups
• To be responsible for a caseload and work without direct supervision, and provide peer support for members of the MDT
• To ensure patient care and planned interventions are supported by available evidence base and experiential knowledge and are in accordance with Code of Professional conduct.
• To keep up to date and monitor literature related to Discharge to Assess and Crisis Response.
• To carryout risk assessment in line with Trust/National Protocol.
This advert closes on Thursday 26 Mar 2026
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