Job overview

We  have an exciting new B7 occupational therapy  role in  our Forensic team in Surrey!

The Forensic Outreach Liaison Service is dedicated to supporting individuals with complex needs who have engaged in offending behaviour, helping them build hopeful, meaningful lives through recovery-focused mental health interventions. If you are passionate about making a real difference, you’ll find a rewarding opportunity here to foster resilience, promote healing, and support lasting positive change.

 As part of our expanding multi-disciplinary therapies team, you will work collaboratively to deliver evidence-based therapies that enable individuals to overcome challenges, manage their mental health, and reintegrate successfully into the community. Your expertise will help empower recovery, reduce reoffending, and enhance wellbeing.

 If you believe in recovery as a powerful journey toward transformation and want to be part of a dedicated team that supports positive futures, we want to hear from you.

The occupational therapy leadership team is committed to an extensive, coordinated CPD programme including supervision, care group and trust wide training, core competence training, and annual conferences.

Main duties of the job

Job Overview

•     To provide compassionate and effective leaderships to junior staff including support staff and therapy assistants

•     To strengthen and actively contribute to the overall leadership of the service

•     To communicate effectively with a range of clinicians, managers, directors, associate directors, people who access services, carers/supporters/family members, stakeholders, and agencies.

•     To assess and contribute to the formulation and diagnosis of individuals referred to the Forensic Outreach and Liaison Service.

•     To provide high quality and evidence -based occupational therapy assessment intervention and consultation to people with complex needs who access services and their carers/supporters/family members, in line with occupational therapy and service pathways

•     To provide supervision and mentoring to occupational therapists within the occupational therapy service.

•     To ensure the delivery of occupational therapy student placements.

•     To actively contribute to the continuing professional development (CPD) opportunities within the wider occupational therapy service.

•     Supporting the team managers and clinical leads in the development and delivery of effective services.

•     To provide an audit of occupational therapy services within the directorate an to link in with local, regional, and national occupational therapy networks

Working for our organisation

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is the leading provider of health and social care services for people of all ages with mental ill-health and learning disabilities in Surrey and North East Hampshire. We also provide social care services for people with a learning disability in Croydon and ASD and ADHD assessment services in Hampshire.

We actively seek to engage people who use our services and our communities in improving the mental wellbeing of the local population. We work closely with other NHS and voluntary sector organisations who provide services and support people who use services and carers.

Surrey is a beautiful county lying just 30 minutes away from Central London and from the South Coast.

Our historic market towns and bustling districts are enveloped in wonderful countryside, and our excellent road and rail networks bring the rest of the country within easy reach.

For international travel, both Gatwick and Heathrow airports are nearby.

Please note that we reserve the right to close posts as soon as sufficient applications are received.

Working from home contracts do not attract high cost area payments.

We look forward to receiving your application!