Job overview

This is a unique opportunity for a passionate and experienced Occupational Therapist to lead and shape the occupational therapy offer across Westminster’s Community Mental Health Hubs. Based within the Queens Park and Paddington (QPP) Hub, you’ll take a key role in embedding recovery-focused, trauma-informed and occupation-centred practice across QPP, North and South Westminster hubs.

We are committed to strengthening OT identity, improving access to specialist OT input, and ensuring service users benefit from meaningful, evidence-based interventions that support self-management, skill development and social inclusion. As part of a wider borough-wide transformation, this role offers scope to develop the psychosocial pathways, support staff development, and influence strategic service design alongside the Borough Head OT and other lead clinicians.

You’ll be joining a values-driven, collaborative service with strong links to acute, rehabilitation and voluntary and third sector partners — where there is real appetite for innovation, co-production, and occupational therapy leadership at the heart of mental health care.

Main duties of the job

We’re looking for someone who is clinically confident, proactive, and deeply committed to the power of occupation in supporting recovery. You’ll manage a complex clinical caseload and contribute to the borough-wide psychosocial pathway through individual and group work.

You’ll provide professional and clinical leadership to occupational therapists across the Westminster hubs — supporting consistent practice standards, mentoring junior staff and apprentices, and helping to grow a learning culture through supervision, training, and student placement coordination.

You’ll take the lead in developing OT-specific pathways that reflect the aims of community transformation — with a strong focus on rehabilitation, skill-building and prevention, helping people stay well in the community and easing pressure on acute services.

Collaboration is key in this role — working closely with MDT colleagues, inpatient services, and voluntary and third sector partners to build smooth, responsive transitions between services. You’ll also contribute to quality improvement, research and innovation, and link in with other Lead OTs and transformation projects across CNWL.

We’re keen to hear from candidates who bring compassion, flexibility, strong communication skills, and a clear commitment to inclusive, trauma-informed care. A willingness to undertake Open Dialogue training and support its implementation within Westminster services is also expected.

Working for our organisation

We are delighted that you are interested in working with us here at CNWL. Our Trust is an exciting place to work, offering a wealth of continuing professional development (CPD) opportunities for all our staff.

CNWL is recognised locally, nationally, and internationally for providing high-quality, innovative healthcare. We aim to employ in line with our values. Our experts are frequently called upon to contribute to national health strategy and policy, and many models of our care have been adapted for use in other countries.

We are a Trust committed to staff personal development, with a Trust-wide culture change and leadership programme that has staff wellbeing at its core.

We encourage staff input and ideas related to moving services forward, improving care pathways, and meeting the needs of our client group.

The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.