Job summary
- Main area
- Forensic Occupational Therapist
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (End date 31 July 2026)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 334-CLI-6993751-A
- Employer
- South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Bethlem Royal Hospital
- Town
- Beckenham
- Salary
- £42,939 - £50,697 per annum inclusive of outer HCAs
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 16/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Occupational Therapist
Band 6
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust has a rich history, well-established community links and an international reputation. We deliver specialist services in the London boroughs of Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark, Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Wandsworth and Richmond.
We are committed to provide a high quality and specialist care to our service users and we are recognised for our care and treatment we provide. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’.
We launched our five-year strategy, Aiming High; Changing Lives in 2021 together with Our Care Improvement System as our quality management system methodology to make a positive impact on patient care, outcomes and staff experience. By joining SLaM, all staff will get the opportunity to be part of this exciting improvement journey supported with learning and development to harness everyone’s potential as change makers.
The trust recognises the unique and valuable contribution that people with lived experience of mental illness can bring to a role. We therefore welcome applications from people with lived experience and consider them as an asset to the Trust.
Our Values
We take pride in providing specialist care to our service users where our Trust values and our promise to be caring, kind, polite, prompt, honest, listen and do what I say I’m going to do is at the heart of everything we do. When you join us, you’ll be part of something special.
As a Trust we are happy to talk flexible working.
Job overview
We are seeking a dynamic and innovative Occupational Therapist (OT) with post qualification experience of working in mental health, ideally forensic settings to join our forensic inpatient team at South London and the Maudsley NHS Foundation. This is an exciting opportunity to be part of supportive and dynamic team within a progressive service, and gain specialist experience working with a group of individuals with personality disorders and history of violent and sexual offending.
This full-time Band 6 OT role is a maternity leave cover for 12 months on Waddon ward. You will be based at River House, where you will work within a multidisciplinary team, managing a varied therapeutic activity programme alongside the ward’s Activity Practitioner. As the ward link OT and a key member of the Recovery Hub, you will deliver OT interventions using the Model of Human Occupation and sensory approaches, supporting service users in their recovery and discharge plans.
Main duties of the job
As an Occupational Therapist in the service, you would be part of a multi professional clinical team and carry a caseload. You would support the delivery of specialist assessments and recovery focused and occupation-based interventions in line with Royal College of Occupational Therapy national practice guidance. You would also be involved in the delivery of core interventions, taking on the clinical leadership for that hub and supporting any innovation and ongoing service development. There would also be opportunity to support variety of involvement projects within the service and the Forensic Recovery College too.
Working for our organisation
We are a diverse and friendly Occupational Therapy team comprising OTs, OT Technicians, Clinical Exercise Instructors and Education Tutors. We offer a range of Recovery Hub based interventions, including Remotivation, Vocation and Employability, Physical Activities and Health Promotion, Creative Arts and Education. We have a café and library which form the main basis for our commercial vocation schemes and have well established links with mainstream employers and a host of community vocation projects.
We offer a supportive working environment, regular supervision, peer supervision, reflective practice and opportunities for CPD and annual appraisal. You will be expected to demonstrate a commitment to evidence-based practice and continuing professional development and be actively supported to develop your professional practice. You will also have opportunity to further develop your specialist skills in assessments and interventions for Remotivation, MOHO based assessment tools and sensory interventions, as well as the opportunity to be involved in a number of multidisciplinary innovations including Restorative Justice and the exciting work of the Bethlem Gallery. We are always evolving particularly within in our new South London partnership with our neighbouring Trusts Oxleas and South West London and St Georges and opportunities to grow and develop are always available.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
· To manage a caseload of clients with complex needs, using evidence based / client centred principles to assess, plan, implement and evaluate interventions.
· To provide leadership for junior staff and students, through supervision and appraisal.
· To participate in the planning, development and evaluation of OT / MDT services, holding responsibility for defined projects.
· To regularly supervise OT students on practice placements.
· This post will require you to complete beyond the preceptorship programme hosted by Oxleas.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Qualified and HCPC registered Occupational Therapist
- Post registration experience as an OT
Desirable criteria
- Post-registration qualification in related area
- Practice Education training/Membership of OT professional body and / or special interest group and/or course
Experience
Essential criteria
- Clinical experience as an Occupational Therapist
- Working in groups / Extensive clinical experience including individual and group work
- Working with mental health service users (pre or post qualification)
- Advising and supporting / supervising junior staff and students
- Experience of audit, research and clinical governance procedures and their application in practice
Desirable criteria
- Preceptorship programme
- Experience of working in an inner-city, multi-cultural environment
- Experience of working with people with challenging behaviours
- Experience of specialist Mental Health settings
- Leadership and first line management experience
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
- Broad / High level understanding of Mental Health disorders and treatment models
- Sound / Detailed knowledge of legislation relevant to Mental Health and Specialist practice where appropriate
- Applied / Working knowledge of the principles of CPA (Care Programme Approach)
- Applied / Extensive knowledge of the principles of risk assessment and risk management
- Specialist knowledge and application of OT assessments and interventions and outcome measures, relevant to client group
Desirable criteria
- Ability to reflect and critically appraise own performance
- Commitment to OT student education
- Skills in applying evidence-based practice and use of outcome measures
- Ability to analyse professional and ethical issues
other
Essential criteria
- Demonstrate a commitment to life-long learning
- Flexible approach to work to meet service user and service needs
- Must be prepared to work evenings & weekends if required ability to travel efficiently between sites
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Miriam Pucyutan
- Job title
- Head OT/Clinical Specialist OT
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02032288400
- Additional information
Another contact name:
Sarah Cook (Head OT)
02032288400
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