Job summary
- Main area
- Occupational Therapy
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 4
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday- Friday 9-5pm)
- Job ref
- 334-CLI-7324162
- Employer
- South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Bethlem Royal Hospital
- Town
- Beckenham
- Salary
- £31,081 - £33,665 per annum Incl. of HCAs
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 17/08/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Activity Practitioner
NHS AfC: Band 4
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
A member of the ward team working closely with the Occupational Therapy service, in the provision of a programme of therapeutic and recreational activity to support the rehabilitation of service users experiencing mental illness and who also have a history of offending.
The programme will be developed and implemented with service users and the ward team under the supervision of a registered Occupational Therapist (OT).
Main duties of the job
- To provide a flexible programme of recreational, vocational and educational activities within the service or where appropriate in the community
- To provide support and engage service users in therapeutic activities to promote recovery, independence and well-being
- To support access to, enrolment in and engagement with the Forensic Recovery College.
- To facilitate recovery courses at the Forensic Recovery College alongside peer trainers and other team members
- To support the development of a balanced therapeutic ward-based programme for service users at different stages of their recovery
- To service users progress, taking account their goals and aspirations and adjusting interventions accordingly
- To work independently, facilitating group or individual work, planned with and guided by a registered OT
- To demonstrate ability to safely carry out restrictive interventions following Seni Lewis Training Programme.
- To report effectively to the team on service user performance and progress
- To provide relevant information, written and oral, for documents relating to service user progress
- To establish working relationships with outside agencies to facilitate service user engagement in community-based vocational and educational services to support discharge and community engagement
- To ensure that up to date written and electronic records and activity data are maintained in accordance with Professional and Trust Standards.
Working for our organisation
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM) provide the widest range of NHS mental health services in the UK as well as substance misuse services for people who are addicted to drugs and alcohol. We work closely with the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN), King's College London and are part of King's Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre. There are very few organisations in the world that have such wide-ranging capabilities working with mental illness. Our scope is unique because it is built on three major foundations: care and treatment, science and research, and training.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- • Good level of Education
- • Evidence of continuing professional and personal development
Desirable criteria
- • Health and social care related qualification above basic level e.g. City & Guilds final certificate, NVQ 3 or 4, Diploma or Degree
- • Creative qualification eg arts, photography
- • Psychology qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- • Demonstrable experience of working in health/social care setting
- • Experience of working both independently and in a team
- • Experience of providing group and 1:1 interventions.
- • Experience of report/letter writing and form filling.
Desirable criteria
- • Experience of facilitating therapeutic groups in a health and social care setting
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- • An understanding of the needs and difficulties of people who experience mental health problems
- • Ability to develop practical solutions to problems that may arise
- • An understanding of the needs of service users from different ethnic and cultural backgrounds
- • Knowledge of the forensic setting and how it supports service user care
- • Good personal organisation and observation skills.
Desirable criteria
- • Knowledge of applying Health and Safety and risk awareness procedures and policies
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
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
- Sarah Cook and Miriam Pucyutan
- Job title
- Professional Heads of Occupational Therapy
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 020 32288400
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