Job summary
- Main area
- Occupational Therapy
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 246-CEN7430205
- Employer
- Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- The Conifers, Hellesdon Hospital
- Town
- Norwich
- Salary
- £38,682 - £46,580 gross per annum, pro rata for part time
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 28/09/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Occupational Therapist
Band 6
Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust provides child and adult mental health services, learning disability, wellbeing, older people's and eating disorder services across Norfolk and Suffolk.
We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and want to reflect the diversity of our local communities within our teams. We welcome applications from all talented individuals with the relevant qualifications, skills, knowledge and experience
Please note, NSFT uses tools to screen any applications generated by Artificial Intelligence (AI).
Job overview
Are you B6 Occupational Therapist who wants to develop their skills and experience working with people with Complex Psychosis in the Norwich, North and South Norfolk area? Are you passionate about teamwork and making a positive difference in people's lives? We'd love for you to join us working in our Rehabilitation for Complex Psychosis community mental health team based at Hellesdon Hospital in Norwich.
Our Rehabilitation in Complex Psychosis Community Mental Health Team is seeking an Occupational Therapist who is passionate about empowering service users with complex needs to achieve their Recovery goals. This role includes care coordination, with a low caseload and also time for profession specific tasks.
We are a multi-agency team based at Hellesdon Hospital, specialising in creative engagement, person-centred working and supporting people who face many different challenges in their daily life work towards recovery.
Staff in the team social workers from Norfolk County Council, Recovery workers and Peer support workers from Together, Substance Misuse Practitioners from Change Grow Live, as well as Occupational Therapists, Medical staff, Nursing staff, Administrators, Physician Associate and Psychologists employed by NSFT.
Main duties of the job
You will have supervision from a Clinical Lead AHP (Occupational Therapist) in a multi disciplinary team including a dedicated Occupational Therapist, Community Mental Health Nurses, Peer Support Workers, Senior Support Workers, CGL and Social Workers.
This is a clinically focussed post with emphasis on ensuring high quality clinical care provision and outcomes. We work with people in their own homes, residential care and supported living settings as well as, on occasion, in-reaching to people who are in a mental health hospital bed.
This is a team which strongly values the unique contribution of Occupational Therapy alongside our other disciplines. We see Occupational Therapy as pivotal in helping service users identify and overcome the barriers which prevent them from living the lives they want to live.
This caseload holding role offers many opportunities to maintaining your core skills, such as low caseloads, supervision with an AHP lead, development networks, regularly hosting OT students, and support to undertake OT specific assessments and treatments.
Working for our organisation
The team’s groupwork programme already features a popular weekly active group. We plan to expand to include further meaningful activities of interest to our service users.
Supervision, professional development and staff welfare are important to the service and time and support will be available to engage in all these important roles. A variety of CPD opportunities can be explored depending on your career pathway. The wider trust has a range of AHP networks which will support you in developing your Occupational Therapy skills, for example training in assessment tools and taking part in workstreams to further enhance AHP services.
Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing experiences and learning from each other. In addition to ongoing training and development opportunities, we are committed to providing an environment in which you can thrive.
Why work for us? We have challenges as a Trust, but we have ambitious aspirations, are pushing ahead with exciting transformation work and we need dedicated individuals to support us on our journey. We have strong, established professional networks coupled with an exceptional leadership team who will ensure you are truly cared for and cared about.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Why Norfolk and Suffolk? The people here are warm and welcoming, you’ll never be far from the beautiful coastline or Broads National Park. We’re an hour and a half away from London and have an international airport in Norwich too. Our villages, towns and cities are packed full of history, independent cafes, shops and theatres. We have excellent shopping, eating out, top ranking schooling and affordable house prices too.
The team works with around ninety service users based in Norwich, North Norfolk and South Norfolk. The team is part of the local community transformation programme and will have a focus on improving the lives of adults with complex enduring psychosis , as detailed in the NICE guidance for Rehabilitation (NG181) and the Royal College of Psychiatrists Standards for Community Mental Health Rehabilitation Services.
We look forward to an Occupational Therapist joining our friendly and creative team, please contact us for more information on the role.
Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY!
Interview dates are yet to be set; you will be contacted via email and invited to book a time. These emails may go to your SPAM, so please keep checking all your emails if applying.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Diploma / Degree in OT
- Clinical supervisor qualification or willing to work towards it
Desirable criteria
- Relevant post graduate training courses
Experience
Essential criteria
- Have significant post registration experience
- Able to demonstrate an appropriate level of knowledge of mental health practice from previous experience
Desirable criteria
- Supporting service development
Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to deliver OT assessment / treatment with designated client group.
- Able to effectively prioritise own work load
Other
Essential criteria
- Ability to travel independently.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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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
- Emma Softley
- Job title
- AHP Clinical Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01603 421610
- Additional information
Melissa Moss
Clinical Lead Nurse / Advanced Nurse Practitioner (mental health)
01603 421610
Colin Oswald
Community Team Manager
01603 421610
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