Specialist Occupational Therapist
The closing date is 03 November 2025
As a Specialist Occupational Therapist in TEWV you will manage a complex caseload independently, assessing occupational performance and delivering specialist occupational interventions, demonstrating adherence to the Trust Values at all times and contributing to collective leadership in the team, service and organisation.
Main duties of the job
* To be responsible for receiving requests for occupational therapy, triaging and prioritising these, completing evidence-based occupational assessment and intervention to address key occupational areas of self care, productivity and leisure.
* To use client-centred approaches to co-producing negotiated occupational goals and evaluate these with service users collaboratively.
* To participate in clinical/professional and management supervision
* To contribute to multi-disciplinary team working
* To contribute to and lead on service improvement and quality initiatives
* To use the Trust electronic patient record system
* To abide by all Trust policies and procedures
* To be able to respond flexibly and creatively to challenges
About us
We are the Mental Health & Learning Disability NHS Trust for County Durham and Darlington, Teesside, North Yorkshire, York and Selby.
From education and prevention, to crisis and specialist care --our talented and compassionate teams work in partnership with our patients, communities and partners to help the people of our region feel safe, understood, believed in and cared for.
We nurture the recovery journey of anyone in need of our help. In Our Trust, everyone has a say in how they are supported and treated because we listen to every person in our care until they feel understood. Our patients, their families and carers work together with us towards better mental health.
We're committed to new thinking that improves the wellbeing of our region. We connect with our communities and partners to get mental health care right, in areas that really need it.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a competent, confident, and enthusiastic full time band 6 occupational therapist to join our team. The specialist forensic community team is based at Roseberry Park Hospital in Middlesbrough and covers Durham and the Tees Valley.
We are looking for an OT who can work flexibly to meet service need and has the vision, energy and inspiration to develop creative, imaginative solutions to delivering occupational therapy with adults with mental illness and a forensic history and their families.
Job responsibilities
Please read the job description attached to this advert.
The post holder will provide evidence-based occupational therapy assessment and interventions as part of the OT Pathway delivered within Health and Justice services, offering input to individuals, their families and carers, in community settings.
All team members are committed to providing the best possible care for the people we work with and their families/carers.
The ability to engage and communicate with people with mental illness who have a forensic history, as well as the parents/family/carers and system around them is essential.
Clinical/Professional supervision is provided by the supervising occupational therapist (OT) as identified by the relevant lead OT. The postholder will attend OT Learning and Governance Networks to ensure fidelity to core occupational therapy delivery, enhance CPD and contribute to wider OT service developments.
You must be able to demonstrate experience of delivery of occupational therapy, keenness to continually develop yourself and others, and a particular interest in this field of OT. We will support use of transferrable skills from a range of clinical settings.
There are varied opportunities for training and development, with CPD needs being identified and monitored through appraisal.
You will access wider support from the occupational therapy network in the Health and Justice service in TEWV, to develop a way of delivering a high quality, needs-led OT service, utilising core occupational therapy skills, ensuring all of the people we work with have a robust occupational therapy assessment and intervention plan in place.
Alison Bullock
Trust professional head of occupational therapy
07771978453
a.bullock@nhs.net
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Appropriate professional qualification for occupational therapy role
* Current relevant registration with specific regulatory body
* International English Language Testing System (IELTS) level 7 (SLT =8) for International recruits
* Post graduate training in relevant specialist area
Experience
* Minimum 12 months post qualifying experience of occupational therapy delivery
* Experience of supporting people with mental health issues, learning disability or autism
* Experience of working in Multidisciplinary Team
Knowledge
* Understanding of the needs of people who use our services with mental health conditions or learning disabilities
* Clinical risk assessment and application in practice
* Knowledge of evidence-based practice in designated specialist area
* Post graduate training in specialist area if applicable to post (e.g. sensory processing, function and cognition)
* Completion of complex occupational therapy cases
* Awareness of professional standards and their application to practice
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.
Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust
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