Job overview
Salford Early Intervention Team are looking to recruit a motivated and enthusiastic Occupational Therapist to join our successful, friendly, and supportive team.
The Early Intervention Team offers great opportunities to continue your career progression with regular supervision, CPD sessions and training. We are focused on staff wellbeing, offering regular clinical and line management supervision, and with a dedicated staff wellbeing lead.
We are a committed integrated service that strives to provide quality, recovery-based support to people experiencing a first episode of psychosiswithin the Salford area. The successful candidate will have 50% of their time protected to work as an occupational therapist, carrying out functional assessments and interventions to enable service user’s recovery. The other 50% of the time, the candidate will be acting as a care coordinator for a reduced caseload of service users who predominantly have occupational therapy needs. You will be supported to maintain an occupational focus in your work alongside a care coordination role for which risk assessment and risk management are essential requirements. We have a senior practitioner for OT within the team and you will work closely with them, as well as working with the support workers and carer support worker to deliver interventions, groups and quality-of-life improving care.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will undertake a split care coordinator/occupational therapist position in a busy specialist EIT team. The post holder will also support the day to day functions of the service by participating in the duty and assessment rota and supporting the planning and delivery of groups and activities for service users.
The post holder will carry out evidence based occupational assessments and write up reports of a high standard, which highlight how biological sociological and psychological factors interact to create obstacles to the satisfactory participation of an individual service user in valued social roles. From the assessment and formulation, the post holder will make recommendations to and access support from appropriate professionals and agencies or deliver Occupational Therapy interventions with the aim of gaining or restoring a balance of social roles and routines for the individual. This work will take place with the support and supervision of the EIT senior practitioner for OT.
Applications from newly qualified and band 5 Occupational Therapists may be considered if no suitable band 6 applications are received. The band 5 post would not carry a care coordination caseload until successful completion of a preceptorship.
Working for our organisation
Greater Manchester Mental Health (GMMH) Foundation Trust employs over 7000 members of staff, who deliver services from more than 122 locations.
We provide inpatient and community-based mental health care for people living in Bolton, the city of Manchester, Salford, Trafford and the borough of Wigan, and a wide range of specialist mental health and substance misuse services across Greater Manchester, the north west of England and beyond.
Greater Manchester is one of the world's most innovative, original and exciting places to live and work. From the beauty of the surrounding countryside to the heart of the vibrant inner city with great shopping, entertainment and dining options.
Wherever you go you will experience a great northern welcome with people famed for their warmth, humour and generosity.
Our people enjoy their work, have opportunities to learn and develop their skills and are encouraged to generate new ideas that improve care for our service users.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
As a band 6, the post holder will be expected to participate in the team assessment and duty rotas to support the safe and effective operations of the service.
Regular clinical supervision will be offered and encouraged and there is also the opportunity to attend and engage in regular Salford monthly community OT meetings and a bi-monthly Allied Health Professionals CPD meeting.
Please see attached job description and person specification
Staff benefits
1. Pay Enhancements
2. 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays rising to 29 after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years
3. Excellent pension
4. Cycle to work scheme
5. Salary sacrifice car scheme
6. Wellbeing programme
7. fuelGenie Fuel Cards (for applicable roles)
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
8. Diploma/Degree in Occupational Therapy
9. Registration with HCPC
Desirable criteria
10. Model Of Human Occupation training
Experience
Essential criteria
11. 2 years’ experience of working as a qualified Occupational Therapist
12. Providing Occupational Therapy in a mental health setting
Desirable criteria
13. Experience of working in a range of mental health settings including NHS
14. Experience of supervising support staff
The Trust mandates all post holders who require a DBS for their role to subscribe to the DBS Update Service. You will be required to enrol for this service for a fee of £16 per year and maintain registration throughout your employment with GMMH.
Applicants are encouraged to apply for posts at Greater Manchester Mental Health who have direct experience of mental health, learning disability or drug and alcohol services either as a service user or a carer.
The Trust is also committed to safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults and requires all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
We are aspiring to ensure our workforce is representative of the diverse communities that we serve, and we are strongly committed to removing barriers to employment for candidates from under-represented groups, for example BAME, Disabled and LGBT+ communities. If you would like to have an informal chat about the recruitment process for this role or would value some additional support, we’d love to hear from you.
Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) when writing job applications
A candidate may utilise the help of AI when writing job application. The assessment of an application is made on its entirety and most times AI-generated content does not fully grasp the context and requirements of the job one applies for thus producing inaccurate and misleading information, especially in the supporting statement section of an application that can lack real life examples of one’s achievements, success and challenges.
We have added a disclaimer to our application process advising that the use of AI is monitored. GMMH reserves the right to follow up with a candidate at the interview on specific responses and those examples used in the supporting statement to explore it further.
Sponsorship
We are proud to be an approved sponsor for the Skilled Worker visa. Applications from individuals who require sponsorship will be considered alongside all other applications. Please be aware that not all roles are eligible for sponsorship. You can review the list of eligible roles and salary requirements on the UK Government’s website – click .
If you are offered a role with us and you require sponsorship, we will check your eligibility in line with the information on the above website. Your offer of employment could be withdrawn if the role is not eligible for sponsorship, and you are not otherwise able to evidence your right to work in the UK.
The Home Office introduces new changes from 22/07/2025 that impact the health and care sector, you may wish to familiarise with it.
Do you have experience outside the NHS?
We want to attract and retain people with diverse skills and experience, to deliver inclusive healthcare services to our communities.
We will consider relevant experience outside the NHS to calculate your salary on appointment.