Main area Occupational Therapy Grade NHS AfC: Band 7 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday- Friday) Job ref 325-7368270-SS
Employer Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Unifer House Town Chertsey Salary £50,008 - £56,908 incl. 5 % HCAS fringe, pa, pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 17/09/2025 23:59
Highly Specialist Occupational Therapist
NHS AfC: Band 7
Would you like to work in an organisation that sits in the top 10 best NHS Mental Health, Learning Disability and Community Services Trust to work for. This ranking is based on staff feedback in the 2023 NHS Staff Survey.
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.
• Toasses s 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!
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the job description and person specification attached for further information on the role.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Occupational therapy professional Qualification
* A driving license suitable for driving in the United Kingdom
* Additional academic clinical qualification relevant to area of work
* Clinical Supervision training/experience
* Leadership training or relevant leadership experience
Experience
* • Extensive and relevant post qualification experience with people who have complex needs.
* • Experience of leading clinical practice service development or project work
* • Extensive experience of applying occupational frames of reference and approaches
* • Highly specialist knowledge of relevant assessment and treatment models
* • Demonstrates evidence of highly effective clinical reasoning skills
* • Evidence of interest and skills in specialist area
* • Experience of providing supervision
* • Experience of supporting students on placement
* • Experience of representing occupational therapy within a service and Trust
We are seeking to enrich the diversity of our Trust to better reflect demographic needs of the populations we serve and to enhance the skills of our workforce. We actively encourage applicants with underrepresented personal characteristics to apply for this role if you match the job description. Please note that you are not restricted from applying for this role if you do not identify with these characteristics and all applicants will be considered fairly against the job description.
As a flexible working and friendly organisation, we want to ensure that you can work in a way that is best for us, our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or any other flexible working patterns.
Women in our Trust are under-represented in some senior grades. We are therefore encouraging women to apply for posts at 8A and above.
Sponsorship
Regrettably, due to UK Home Office requirements we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Name Lindsey Mosley Job title Professional Lead for Allied Health Professions Email address lindsey.mosley@sabp.nhs.uk Additional information
Please also contact Polly Bowyer Service Manager Polly.Bowyer@sabp.nhs.uk
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