Community Mental Health Occupational Therapist
The closing date is 10 November 2025
We are seeking to appoint a skilled and enthusiastic Occupational Therapist to be part of a new integrated Mental Health Team in Lewisham.
Main duties of the job
You will be amongst a Lewisham wide team of Occupational Therapists and together will be responsible for the delivery of a recovery focused OT interventions which addresses the needs of patients accessing mental health services, within a stepped care model.
The role could includes professional development and integration to the neighbourhood team which includes case work, MDT formulation and assessment.
About us
You will be based between Waldron Community Health Centre, Amersham Vale, Deptford, London, SE14 9LD and Southbrook road although new premises are being sought better suited to neighbourhood working.
We are committed to ensuring our staff get the most out of their benefits package and understand the importance of a healthy work life balance. There is an extensive range of excellent benefits for you and your family. We want you to feel like you are part of a close knit team at SLaM. It's important to us that you valued and appreciated and that are why we have a comprehensive benefits package on offer.
Job responsibilities
About the location:
You will be based at Waldron Community Health Centre, Amersham Vale, Deptford, London, SE14 9LD, or at Southbrook road where the neighbourhood 4 team also have their base.
About the team
This is an exciting development in Mental Health Service provision in Lewisham and an opportunity to work across the borough promoting the group programme and occupationally focussed interventions. The service aims to provide proactive, strength-based care for service users experiencing mental health problems in a primary care setting using a stepped care model.
The Mental Health Teams provide care and support to service users who require a level of care above that available through general medical services and also secondary care mental health intervention.
The Primary Mental Health role incorporates interventions around social prescribing and care navigation, drawing on the expertise of third sector partner providers. In addition to Occupational Therapy, the team comprises housing and welfare support, peers support, nurses, social workers, consultant psychiatrist.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Registered Occupational Therapist;
* Post-graduate training relevant to Mental Health
Experience
* Significant clinical experience including individual and group work
* Experience of advising and supporting /supervising junior staff and students
* Working with mental health service users (pre or post qualification)
Knowledge
* Knowledge of the principles of risk assessment and risk management
* High level understanding of Mental Health disorders and treatment models
* Applied knowledge of legislation relevant to Mental Health and Specialist practice where appropriate
* Applied knowledge of the principles of CPA (Care Programme Approach)
* Specialist knowledge and application of OT assessments and interventions and outcome measures, relevant to client group
* A sound understanding the dynamics of a team and have the ability to work effectively within that
Other
* Commitment to student supervision
* Commitment to lifelong learning
* Open to new ideas and awareness of general issues that might have relevance to service users involvement
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Address
Waldron Community Health Centre, Amersham Vale, Deptford, London, SE14 9LD
£42,471 to £50,374 a year per annum incl. HCAs
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
334-CLI-7425606
Job locations
Waldron Community Health Centre, Amersham Vale, Deptford, London, SE14 9LD
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