Job overview

The Occupational Therapy role is embedded within our community mental health service, with a particular focus on the rehabilitation and reablement of service users. The rehabilitation pathway is designed to support individuals regain their independence and improve their quality of life by delivering a variety of interventions which include activities that promote daily living skills, social skills, and vocational skills. The goal is to help individuals develop a sense of routine and purpose, which can significantly aid in their recovery process.

The Occupational Therapist will take a leading role in the development and delivery of Occupational Therapy services, providing specialist assessments and interventions in both individual and group settings. Collaboration with other healthcare professionals, such as nurses, psychologists, psychiatrists, and social workers is integral to this role, ensuring service users receive comprehensive care that addresses all aspects of their well-being.

Main duties of the job

• Manage a clinical caseload of service users with complex mental health needs.
• Act as Care Co-ordinator and/or vocational lead where appropriate.
• Identify and work towards OT goals as part of the multi-disciplinary care plan.
• Deliver OT-specific assessments and interventions in both individual and group formats.
• Use specialist mental health and OT assessment tools and treatment techniques.
• Provide interventions in various settings to ensure effective care.
• Promote independence through daily living, social, and vocational skills.
• Assess for and provide equipment to enhance independence.
• Monitor, evaluate, and modify treatment plans to measure progress and outcomes.
• Deliver services within the Care Programme Approach framework.
• Apply a high level of understanding of disability and provide life skills training.
• Prioritise referrals and manage effective discharge planning.
• Contribute to and carry out risk assessments and management plans.
• Work collaboratively as part of the multi-disciplinary team (MDT).
• Supervise support workers and OT students on placement.
• Participate in service development, research, and audit activities.
• Maintain up-to-date electronic and written records in line with Trust standards.
• Ensure practice is evidence-based and aligned with national guidelines and legislation.
• Attend mandatory training and maintain a CPD portfolio.
• Promote service user involvement and uphold Trust values.

Working for our organisation

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families.  This is strengthened by our new values:

• We’re Kind
• We’re Fair
• We Listen
• We Care