Clinical Occupational Therapist | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 04 December 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £44,485 - £52,521 pa inc |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 03 January 2026 |
| Location: | Abbeywood, London, SE2 0AS |
| Company: | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7653945/277-7653945-FOR |
Summary
The Band 6 Clinical Specialist Occupational Therapist (OT) post in the Forensic Community Service is split across Mariposa House, the Women’s Forensic Hostel and the wider Forensic Community Service, working alongside the Band 7 OT and the MDT in delivering skilled, needs led, client centred, recovery focused OT assessment and intervention, both in groups and individually. The post focuses on rehabilitating service users in the community, developing and maintaining their daily living skills, enabling them to reach their potential in the areas of self care, leisure and work, whilst taking a client centred, risk managed approach.
Key Task and Responsibilities
• Provide OT specific assessment & interventions via groups & individual work related to self- care, work and leisure
• Work as a member of the multi-professional team
• To manage a clinical caseload
• To support the development of evidence-based OT practice
• To contribute to service development
• To participate in research/audit activities
• To provide OT advice to the multi-professional team
• To work independently without direct supervision
• Supervise the work of junior staff including OT students on clinical placement
• Contribute to and carry out risk assessment and management plans
• Provide 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
• Actively lead on promoting co-production and peer mentor work opportunities within the forensic community service and wider community.
• Contribute to and carry out risk assessment and management plans, to support meaningful and risk managed engagement in the community
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
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
• To be responsible for maintaining stock & advising on resources required to carry out the job.
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 multidisciplinary 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
• Actively lead on promoting co-production and peer mentor work opportunities within the forensic community service and wider community.
• 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 plans
• To work as part of the MDT and attend all relevant clinical meetings
• To ensure that up to date electronic and written records are maintained in accordance with Professional and Trust standards
• To actively contribute to service & policy review and implementation To participate in the operational planning, implementation, evaluation and audit of practice, clinical care pathways and protocols within own clinical area
• To raise awareness of the OT service within own clinical area
• To participate in the development of the OT service within own clinical area
• To apply increasingly complex skills and knowledge to establish professional competence and fitness to practice as a Band 6 OT
• To attend all relevant mandatory training as directed by the Trust
• To contribute to CPD through participation in internal and external training and other development opportunities
• To maintain and update a CPD portfolio
• To contribute to the team’s clinical governance and quality agenda
• To ensure practice is evidence based
• To demonstrate understanding and application of national guidelines and legislation relating to mental health & social care provision
• Observe and apply Health and Safety regulations
• To always apply risk management procedures
• To promote and facilitate offender involvement in own clinical area
Research• To demonstrate the ability to critically evaluate current research andapply them to practice
• To broaden research and development skills through participation in local audit and research projects
Communication• To communicate appropriately withservice users and carers, team members, OT colleagues and other agencies
• To demonstrate effective communication skills with those who have difficulty with communication for any reason
• To communicate effectively as required within job role using appropriate methods of communication
• To promote an awareness of the OT role within the team, negotiating priorities where appropriate
This advert closes on Thursday 18 Dec 2025
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