Clinical Specialist Occupational Therapist | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Posting date:	26 August 2025
Salary:	Not specified
Additional salary information:	£53,751 - £60,651 pa inc
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	25 September 2025
Location:	Dartford, DA2 7AF
Company:	Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Job type:	Permanent
Job reference:	7426957/277-7426957-FOR

Summary

Oxleas NHS Foundation is proud to be part of the South London Partnership (SLP) Forensic Programme along with South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and South West London and St George’s NHS Trust as an NHS England New Model of Care. One of the aspirations of the SLP is to strengthen the interface between the forensic acute inpatient men’s service enabling a smooth transition and improved experience in South London by actively linking in with prison healthcare.

In response to this, Oxleas is seeking a Band 7 Clinical Specialist Occupational Therapist to the Forensic Service. The Band 7 Clinical Specialist Occupational Therapist will provide occupational therapy assessment, treatment, and interventions individually and in groups with responsibility for providing clinical supervision of junior colleagues and students.

The post holder will work with both individuals and groups and contribute directly to the Seven Day Therapies Programme on average one in four weekends, either a Saturday or Sunday on a rota basis.

Important Sponsorship Information for this post: We are currently unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post.

· Manage a complex clinical caseload

· Work as a member of the multi-professional team and proactively support the NHSE&I safe staffing initiative

· Lead on the development of evidence-based OT practice

· Provide OT specific assessment & interventions via groups & individual work related to self- care, work and leisure

· Lead on service development

· Lead and participate in research/audit/quality improvement activities

· Supervise the work of junior staff including OT students on clinical placement

· Contribute to and carry out risk assessment and management plans

· Provide specialist OT advice to the multi-professional team

· Work independently without direct supervision

· Be an OT specialist and have in-depth knowledge of OT assessment and interventions for the service user group

· Contribute to the maintenance and development of the Trust wide OT service

· Work within the social inclusion and recovery agenda

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.

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

Management responsibilities
• Own clinical caseload
• To actively participate in service & policy review and implementation
• To participate in the strategic and operational planning, implementation, evaluation and audit of practice, clinical care pathways and protocols within own clinical area
• To participate in the delivery of the Trust wide OT Strategy
• To raise awareness of the OT service within the directorate, the Trust & outside agencies
• To lead on the development of the OT service within own clinical area
• Delivery & development of the OT service within the multidisciplinary team
• Research & audit activities
• Personal Continuing Professional Development

Leadership
• To exercise good personal time management, punctuality, and consistent reliable attendance
• To undertake effective support, guidance, supervision, and appraisal of junior staff
• To contribute to the induction, training, and education of students [both OT & other professions] and other staff in clinical area
• To regularly be responsible for the supervision and written assessment of OT students on fieldwork placement within the Trust
• To ensure relevant national and local polices are implemented
• To review and reflect on own practice and performance through effective use of professional and operational supervision and appraisal guided by KSF.

Clinical
• To manage a caseload of service users with complex mental health needs
• To work with service users to identify OT goals as part of the multi-disciplinary care plan, using specialist mental health & OT assessment tools & treatment techniques
• To work with service users in a variety of settings to provide the most effective assessment & interventions
• To plan and implement service users led individual and/or group interventions, using graded activity to achieve therapeutic goals
• To ensure service users health, social, cultural, and spiritual needs are always considered
• To assess for and provide equipment to enhance independence in daily living skills for offenders with a physical disability in addition to their mental health needs
• To monitor, evaluate and modify treatment to measure progress and identify outcomes
• To plan and deliver services within the Care Programme Approach framework
• To apply a high level of understanding of the effect of disability and provide training and advice on life skills to maximise functional ability
• To assess the occupational needs of service users and establish and evaluate appropriate treatment interventions
• To identify appropriate and inappropriate referrals and prioritise workload
• To manage effective discharge ensuring service users and all relevant agencies are given relevant information
• To contribute to and carry out risk assessment and risk management plan
• To work as part of the MDT and attend all relevant clinical meetings


This advert closes on Tuesday 9 Sep 2025

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