Job summary
- Main area
- Lead Occupational Therapist Group Treatment Service
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 30 hours per week
- Job ref
- 354-AB-20960
- Employer
- Sussex Partnership NHS FoundationTrust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Mill View Hospital
- Town
- Hove
- Salary
- £38,682 - £46,580 pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 30/10/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Senior Occupational Therapist Brighton & Hove Group Treatment Service
NHS AfC: Band 6
Come and join us
We're looking for people who share our values (compassion, accountability and optimism) to help us provide high quality care to the patients, carers, families and local communities we serve. We specialise in providing NHS mental health and learning disability services.
So what can we offer you in return?
We're an organisation which puts people first. We'll do everything possible to help you feel respected, valued and included. We'll help you learn, acquire new skills and gain further experience to support your career development. And we'll provide the opportunity for you to bring your fresh ideas to work about how we can do things differently and continue improving.
You will also be joining a health and care system committed to working together to do the best we can for the communities we serve. Above all, at Sussex Partnership you'll have the chance to make a difference to the lives of the patients, carers and families across our communities.
As a Trust we are committed in making a difference. Your development is important to us, so don't forget to ask us during interview what opportunities we can offer. We can offer fully funded lifelong learning opportunities such as an apprenticeship from GCSE to Masters level.
If you like the sound of that, then come and join our team.
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen to take the role of Lead Occupational Therapist, Band 6 with the Brighton & Hove Group Treatment Service (GTS).
We are looking to recruit into a part-time position working four days a week.
The OT specific responsibilities of this post are to lead the development of occupational therapy practice across the GTS, introducing and developing clinical initiatives and offer professional support and development to junior OT staff within the GTS.
The Brighton and Hove Group Treatment Service delivers groups alongside 1:1 sessions for clients in secondary care. The service provides a psychoeducational group program using the Recovery model developed within a CBT approach, drawing on mindfulness, self- compassion and acceptance and commitment therapy. The psychoeducation component aims to support people in developing an understanding of their difficulties and the development of new life skills.
This role includes facilitation of psychoeducational and creative groups.
The successful candidate will take a lead role in managing referrals to the GTS and manage the daily running of the service at this site.
You will also hold a caseload of service users with complex needs and will be expected to use evidence based / client centered principles to assess, plan and evaluate interventions.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be responsible for assessing patients (which includes assessment for suitability for the group treatment programme), and providing individual therapeutic interventions to support the group work.
To lead the OT specific practice within GTS, offering professional supervision and preceptorship.
You will be in charge of facilitating groups and managing your own clinical case load, you will also have Lead Practitioner responsibility. This is an excellent opportunity to develop skills in working within a psychological framework, and facilitating and developing groups. The GTS provides an excellent supervision package to facilitate this learning.
This role will require you to process referrals and manage the team on a day to day basis. You will have supervision responsibilities and need to liaise with ATS and the specialist services who access GTS.
You will need to understand interventions relevant to the care group to include assessment, psychoeducation, clinical care and interventions, group facilitation, wellness recovery action plans and discharge planning.
Working for our organisation
At GTS we are a small team who work closely together. We have regular supervisions and participate in reflective practice to work with service users in the secondary services. We support all new staff learning to co-facilitate our group program using a preceptorship model.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- To take a lead in developing and maintaining the OT pathway in GTS.
- To offer professional supervision to the OT's on the team.
- To take a role in the day-to-day management of GTS.
- To prices and manage referrals into GTS.
- To undertake assessments of individuals and their families in the designated care group with complex health presentations, including those service users presenting with higher levels of risk. To develop alongside the service user their care plan
- Carry a caseload, including lead practitioner duties, actively working with patients and carers.
- To offer specialist assessment and advice where required.
- To assess and manage on going risks as identified during the assessment, ensuring that this is done in collaboration with the service user and carers. To regularly review risk factors and make changes to the management of them as necessary.
- To plan and co-facilitate group treatments.
- To contribute to the maintenance and development of the Trust strategies.
- To ensure that clinical practice is evidence based and consistent with relevant NICE guidelines and Trust policies and procedures.
- To participate in regular clinical, professional and managerial supervision.
- To provide supervision of junior staff and trainees where appropriate.
- To act within your professional code of conduct at all times.
- To act within your scope of practice at all times.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Degree/Diploma in occupational therapy
- Evidence of post graduate level study/training
- Registration with the HPC as an occupational therapist
- Management/Leadership training
- Training in the use of standardised occupational therapy assessment tools
Knowledge/Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience as a qualified occupational therapist in mental health
- Broad experience of working with clients with a range of mental health problems
- Experience of both group and individual work
- Experience of multidisciplinary working
- Experience of supervising staff and students
- Experience as a Care Coordinator
- Experience in a clinical area related to the post
- Leadership experience
- Experience in applying a range of assessment tools and a comprehensive knowledge of occupational therapy clinical approaches used in mental health
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
- Josie Webb
- Job title
- Team Leader Brighton & Hove GTS
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07717 540474
- Additional information
Tel. for East Brighton GTS 0300 304 0210
For Mill View GTS 0300 304 0211
Mobile 07717 540474
GTS Website: Brighton & Hove Group Treatment Service :: Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
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