Occupational Therapist | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 29 December 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £44,485 - £52,521 pa inc |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 28 January 2026 |
| Location: | Beckenham, BR3 3QL |
| Company: | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7669369/277-7669369-CMH |
Summary
This role presents an exciting opportunity to join the Mental Health Hub in Bromley as a highly skilled and motivated Occupational Therapist. The Hub is designed to provide accessible, person-centred support for individuals experiencing a range of mental health challenges. As part of this innovative service, you will conduct comprehensive assessments and deliver a variety of brief, evidence-based interventions to address the biopsychosocial needs of those accessing the Hub.
A key aspect of the role involves effectively utilising third-sector organisations and community resources to promote service users’ recovery, wellbeing, and the ongoing independent management of mental health conditions. You will work collaboratively within a multi-disciplinary team, contributing to shared care planning and service delivery while maintaining professional autonomy in your practice.
The role is supported by robust clinical supervision and professional development structures within Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust, ensuring you have access to guidance and opportunities for growth. In addition to direct clinical work, you will play an active role in shaping the service by participating in the development, delivery, and evaluation of primary care mental health initiatives and multi-disciplinary interventions.
In this innovative service, you will perform comprehensive assessments, contribute to shared care planning and formulation, and deliver various brief, evidence-based interventions to address the biopsychosocial needs of those accessing the Hub.
Alongside other MDT members, you will also be responsible for delivering recovery-focused OT groups that cater to the needs of service users accessing primary care mental health services. Your role will require finding creative, evidence-based, and occupationally focused ways to respond to the needs of our service users.
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 provide specialist assessments of service users with mental health problems within the primary care setting, ensuring proactive management of service users’ needs.
· To support and deliver a range of biopsychosocial therapeutic interventions to service users in primary care, who do not meet the criteria for secondary mental health services.
· To provide specialist occupational therapy consultation and advice to other team members on the suitability of assessments and interventions, where appropriate.
· To provide effective signposting to appropriate third sector and community-based services for ongoing support.
· To provide high quality clinical expertise and clinical reasoning in relation to referrals that may require onward referrals for secondary mental health care
· Contribute to and carry out risk assessment and risk management plans
· To contribute to the continued development, review and transformation of the primary care mental health hub.
This advert closes on Sunday 18 Jan 2026
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