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Job summary

Main area
Adult Community Mental Health Services
Grade
Band 6
Contract
12 months (Maternity cover - fixed term for external candidates and secondment for internal candidates)
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
277-7993582-CMH
Employer
Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Greenwich West ADAPT
Town
Charlton
Salary
£45,953 - £54,254 pa inc
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
16/06/2026 23:59

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Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust logo

Occupational Therapist

Band 6

Job overview

We’re offering an exciting opportunity to be part of the Greenwich ADAPT service, delivering evidence-based pathways and support for Greenwich residents. This role is all about making a real difference, helping individuals regain independence and improve their quality of life through interventions that boost daily living, social engagement, and vocational skills.

You will collaborate with a talented, experienced Occupational Therapy team, playing a key role in shaping, delivering, and evaluating OT intervention. If you are passionate about recovery, inclusion, and empowering people to thrive, we would love to hear from you.

The specialist Occupational Therapist will work within community mental health team, covering the Greenwich Community Mental Health Services in the Anxiety, Depression, Personality Disorder and Trauma (ADAPT) care pathway team. The post offers an opportunity to contribute to the delivery of occupational therapy services within the  ADAPT pathway and to contribute to the development of the overall treatment pathways, ensuring the occupational needs of the service users are addressed and providing an occupational therapy perspective on service delivery.

Main duties of the job

About the Role

As an experienced Occupational Therapist, you will:

  • Complete comprehensive occupational needs assessments for service users referred to OT.
  • Co-produce personalised goals and deliver tailored interventions aligned with individual care plans.
  • Lead and facilitate a variety of group-based interventions that promote recovery, empowerment, and readiness for discharge where appropriate.
  • Collaborate closely with multi-disciplinary team (MDT) colleagues to identify service users’ functional needs and enhance clinical outcomes.

About You

We are looking for someone who:

  • Brings extensive experience in mental health and a strong commitment to recovery and social inclusion.
  • Is passionate about integrating OT models of practice and outcome measures into everyday work.
  • Thrives in a collaborative environment and is motivated to make a meaningful difference.

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

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

  • To manage a clinical caseload of identified ADAPT pathway service users with complex needs.
  • To work as a member of a clinical multi-disciplinary team.
  • To work independently as a lone practitioner within the multi-disciplinary team.
  • To support the development of evidence based OT practice within ADAPT Service.
  • To provided assessment and interventions related to Social Inclusion activities; ADL and Occupational roles and activity.
  • To feed into the development of standards of practice within ADAPT Service.
  • To regularly oversee the work of junior staff and supervise OT students on practice placement.
  • To contribute to service development.
  • To participate in research/audit activities.
  • Contribute to and carry out risk assessment and risk management plans.
  • To provide specialist OT advice to the MDT.
  • To work independently without direct supervision.
  • To follow an agreed job plan.

Person specification

Registration

Essential criteria
  • Are you registered with HCPC ?
  • Do you hold a relevant degree or graduate diploma as required by person specification
Desirable criteria
  • Interest in undertaking further relevant studies/training courses
  • Fieldwork Educators training / past experience of taking students

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Post registration experience as an OT including a minimum of 2 years mental health experience
Desirable criteria
  • Previous experience of working in Community Mental Health setting

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Demonstrate understanding of assessing and delivery of OT provision in the home and community environment.
  • Extensive clinical experience including individual and group work reflecting OT and social inclusion
Desirable criteria
  • Previous experience of working in Community Mental Health setting

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Veteran AwareNo smoking policyAge positiveInvestors in People: GoldImproving working livesArmed Forces Covenant Gold AwardMindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.Disability confident employerStonewall equality policy. Equality and justice for lesbians, gay men, bisexual and trans people.Step into healthPride In Veterans

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.

Application numbers

This vacancy may close early if it receives a high volume of applications. Please complete and submit your application in good time to avoid disappointment.

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Jacqueline Rosales
Job title
Senior Occupational Therapist
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
078 8017 3818
Additional information

Jacqueline Rosales can also be contacted via 0208 319 5500

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