Role Overview
This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a multi‑disciplinary ward team, which is professionally supported by a Head OT. There is a mix of band 5, band 6 and band 7 occupational therapists across the acute and crisis mental health service, as well as other professions, including Lived Experience Practitioners and Occupational Therapy Technical Instructors. It is a friendly and supportive team and we welcome new staff and the ideas and skills they bring.
Key Responsibilities
* Carry an inpatient caseload, including doing assessments and 1:1 interventions to build functional and social skills.
* Work closely with the ward Multi‑disciplinary Team (MDT).
* Group interventions.
* Manage a clinical caseload.
* Work as a member of the multi‑disciplinary team.
* Support the development of evidence‑based practice.
* Provide OT specific assessment and interventions via groups and individual work in the three core areas of Self care, Work/Education and Leisure.
* Contribute to service development.
* Work independently without direct supervision.
* Develop skills, knowledge and experience through participation in Preceptorship and the Trust‑wide Band 5 Occupational Therapy Development Programme.
Benefits & Support
* Cover the subscription fee for the Royal College of Occupational Therapy for your first year of employment.
* Line management, professional and clinical OT supervision in line with Guidance from the RCOT.
* Enhanced support with the Allied Health Professionals Preceptorship Programme.
* Annual Personal Development Review (PDR).
* Quarterly Trust‑wide Band 5 OT Support Group.
* Career development opportunities.
* Encouragement to join service development and quality improvement projects.
* Invitation to the Annual Therapies Conference.
Who we welcome
We warmly welcome New Graduates, Return to Practice and International Occupational Therapists.
Provider Overview
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.
Location & Values
We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people. Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values: We’re Kind, We’re Fair, We Listen, We Care.
Key Service Areas
* To manage a caseload of service users with mental health needs.
* To work with service users to identify OT goals as part of the multi‑disciplinary care plan, OT assessment tools & treatment techniques.
* To plan & implement service user led individual and/or group interventions, using graded activity to achieve therapeutic goals.
* To monitor, evaluate and modify treatment in order to measure progress and identify outcomes.
* To plan and deliver services within the Care Programme Approach framework.
This advert closes on Tuesday 28 Oct 2025.
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