Occupational Therapist | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Posting date:	11 December 2025
Salary:	Not specified
Additional salary information:	£44,485 - £52,521 pa inc
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	10 January 2026
Location:	Woolwich, SE18 3RG
Company:	Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Job type:	Contract
Job reference:	7674680/277-7674680-CMH

Summary

TheOccupational Therapistwill play a vital role within theGreenwich Memory Service, supporting individuals living with dementia and their carers across the Royal borough of Greenwich. This position focuses on delivering high-quality, person-centred care in line with the National Dementia Strategy.

You will provide specialist occupational therapy interventions through a combination of home visits, clinic-based sessions, and group work. The role includes conducting comprehensive assessments, developing tailored treatment plans, and offering practical strategies to promote independence and wellbeing.

Working as part of a dynamicmultidisciplinary team (MDT),you will collaborate closely with colleagues, act as a link worker for service users and carers, and contribute to service development initiatives. This is an opportunity to make a meaningful impact on people’s lives while advancing your professional skills in a supportive environment.

The Greenwich Memory Service is at the heart of supporting people living with dementia across the Greenwich borough, in line with the National Dementia Strategy. We’re passionate about delivering high-quality, person-centred care that truly changes lives.

As part of our dedicated team, you’ll work closely with service users and their carers, providing support in their homes and in clinic settings. Through a mix of individual and group interventions, you’ll help people maintain independence and improve quality of life.

We’re looking for a skilled Occupational Therapist to bring expertise and compassion to our Memory Service. In this role, you will:

· Carry out specialist assessments and deliver tailored interventions

· Facilitate individual and group sessions that make a real impact

· Act as a link worker, offering guidance and support to carers

· Collaborate within a dynamic multidisciplinary team (MDT)

· Contribute to the ongoing development of our service

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

· To manage a clinical caseload

· To work as a member of the MDT

· To support the development of evidence-based OT practice

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

· To contribute to service development

· To participate in research/audit activities

· To supervise the work of Support Workers and OT students

on fieldwork placement

· Contribute to and carry out risk assessment & risk management plans

· To provide specialist OT advice to the MDT

· To work independently without direct supervision

· To follow an agreed job plan


This advert closes on Sunday 4 Jan 2026

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